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Shown No Mercy

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
June
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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Decatur, 111., June 5. - Sara Bush, the negTO arrested near Windsor early Friday morning for outraging Mrs. Vest, of Mount Zion township, and Mrs. 1. B. Dill, near Decatur, was lynched at S a. m. Saturday by citizens. A dispatch from Springfield says that Gov. Altgeld has issued a proclamation denouneing' the lynching as a cowardly and diabolical act, as murder, and as a blot upon the fair name of the state, líe declares the men who were enffapfed in it mu3t be punished and oSers a reward of ?300 eash for their apprehension and conviction.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register