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End of the Eastman Rioters Five Hanged in Unprecedented Tragedy
Special dispatch recounts the Eastman executions of Ela Moore Simon O Quinn Joe King Roddy Powell and Bob Donaldson for Harvard murder and the ensuing riot. It covers ferrying to Eastman the five to the scaffold the crowd throngs the jail and the grim scene ending in five bodies strung and buried as courts sentence twenty two rioters to prison terms and life.
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Eastman
Chronicle
Constitution
Fashan
Ela Moore
Simon O’quinn
Joe King
Roddy Powell
Bob Donaldson
Baird
Macon
Floyd Rifles
John L. Hardeman
Macon Volunteers
W. W. Carnes
C. M. Wiley
Shipman
O’quinn
Ella Moore
King
Foster
Simon O'Quinn
Powell
Donaldson
Quinn
Ella
Georgia Darkey
O'Quinn
Harvard
New York
Jum
Sheriff Sapp
Iman
Joe
Sherif Sapp
Mr. Harrell
Vata
Dodge County
Tarrapin
Donalson
Elia Moore
Marc Anthony
Cesar
Marshall
Harrell
Pete Harrell
Eppty Marshal
James Harvard
Cochren
Tareapin
W. W. Harrell
Mr. Harvard
Jordan Smith
Cochran
Luke Hall
Hall
Court House
Jack Brown