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Gov Vardaman Moves to Stop Delta Lynching Plan
Special to The Times-Democrat Jackson Feb 27 Gov Vardaman and Adjutant General Fridge rushed to Greenwood then Batesville with Greenwood company to prevent the execution like mob. They escorted Albert Baldwin charged with killing Engineer Fogarty to jail. Baldwin says self defense. The governor warned Sheriff Johnson to defend the prisoner and prevent a lynching as a mob planned to burn him at a Tutwiler pyre. The mission included a race against the mob to preserve law and order across Delta Mississippi.
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