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THE VIRGINIA OuTRAUK.;Ric iimond, Jan. 20:The 1} ticking of the negro Arthur Jordan, near Warrentown, V'a., on Monday morning, foi eloping with a white girl,as published in the Urruld of to-day, has occasioned the greatest Indignation among the colored members of Hie (Jen-eial Assembly, and is iikeiy to result in a legislative investigation of the outrage, i he aflalr is regarded as a gross outrage on the laws of Virginia and Maryland, and istlie second ease of the lynching of negroes in Virginia within a month. Mr.I'age, the colored Represents'ive, will, to morrow, move to appoint a Committee ol the General Assembly to go to W'sr-reutown and investigate the entire affair. It is also exnacted that the Legislatureami Executive of Maryland will adopt measures to biing the kidnappers of the negro Jordan from that State to justice. I hey are known both at Williamsport, Md., and at Winchester and Warrentown, Va., and will no doubt We surrendered by Governor Holliday upon a proper requisition from the Governor ol Maryland. The proposed resolution of Mr. l'age will be promptly pas-ujd by the readjusting majority of which political I act ion of the General Assembly he is s member, and the investigation will he ordered. There is also the assurance that the complexion of the committee will be such as to guarantee a fair and impartial examination; that there will be no whitewashing, and the lynchers of the negro Jordan will in all probabilily be arrested, tried and punished.r»(VmlaorclAilUjO(HifiKH]HIVfVInnAVka11 nuoMft©
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Wilmington Daily Gazette
Wilmington, Delaware, US
Wed, Jan 21, 1880
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