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A Negro Ravisher Lynched

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Day
17
Month
February
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 14.- The Chronicle's Duquoin, Ills., special says: Alonzo Holly, the negro who assaulted a coal miner's wife in this city five weeks ago, was taken from the jail at Pinckneyville and hanged by a mob of twenty masked men. He was strung up to a tree standing in the street within the resident portion of the town, at about 3:30 Tuesday morning. A previous attempt to lynch Holly was foiled by the sheriff taking him to Belleville from which place he was lately returned to Pinckneyville on account of his obstreperous conduct while a prisoner there. Holly protested his innocence to the last.

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