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•lt; .■ *LYNCHING BKE Sl^GKD/• : V 7'“7vd hdhdd.di,7Nq?ri: Arrested for Murder Tak-‘ eiV Froin Officers' a nd Shot Up;■■W’’ on Theater Stage.' .• . . * , * *Jluncbecls of pcrspn’s ut Liver-mpre, KyM piiiil abinissioii to the local theatre for the • privilege oftaking shots at the victim of 'summary vengehce for the murder of a white man. The money collected • will be given to the fa m i ly o f the white man for'whose murder the negro was lynched.'Will Potter was arres'ctl by the town marshall after shoo ting Frank Mitchell, 2-3 years old A mob bent on iynchihgquickly gathered.The marshall rushed his prisoner from the lockup, a flimsy structure, to the opera house, where he hoped to be able; to holci off the mob until the sheriff arrived fromI !!■pinmit.'StinsecbkLiuamma nearby town.Potter never got out of the opera house alive, for; the mob turned the stage- into a theatre of; death.The lynchers, numbering about oOj swarmed into the opera house and soon took the prisoner away from the marshall. -. Then a inaiievtlissshlbsokecnavdiCisuorbethixhiar
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Messenger
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Thu, May 04, 1911
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