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A Negro Lynched

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
October
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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Omaha, Neb., Oct. 10.- Joe Coo, a negro, was taken irom the jn.il in this cit.y lat niylit and lynched by a mob for criminally assauUing Ltzzie Yates, 6 years of age. Omaha, Xeb., Oct 12.- Seven of the leaders of the mob that lynched Coe were brought to the jail from which they on Friday night took thelr victim, and a bowling ■ mob surrounded the bwtllfl Saturday night and demanded their release. The men under arrest are R. G. Bloom, Capt. John O'Donohoe, II. II. randies, Ed Fitzgerald, lid Xeasehaeffer, Patrick O'Herne and John Fritz. Bloom is manager of the Morse Dry Goods Company, the '.argest retail house in the city; O'Donohoe is an ex-captain of pólice and O'üerne was arrested while attendiny the democratie county convention as a delégate. The men are all charged with murder in the first degree and were refused bail. Omaha, Neb., Oct. 13.- The wife and mother of Joe Coe, who was hanged by a mob here last Friday, claim that Coe was innocent of the crime with which he was charged.

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Ann Arbor Register