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MEDINA GAZETTE.SOUTHERN LIFE.11enn\tTHEA Savage and Thrilling Story.jao8ItITS ORIGIN IN POLITICS—A JAILATTACKED RY 200 MEN—THREE i tMEN KILLED—THE PRINCIPAL VICTIM’S LIFE SAVED BY A PLUCKY DAUGHTER. !1{From a Staff Correspondent N. Y. Tribune.]DeKalp., Kemper Co., Miss., fMay 2, 1877. \ ijticI hoard oi the Korapcr County tragedy while in New Orleans. The meager particulars given telegraph made it appear an affair of unusual atrocity, and raised a strong suspicion that political feeling lay at the bottom of it. If party animosity had had nothing to do with the invasion of a quiet village on Sunday by an armed mob of 200 men, the murder of ihreo men and a child, and the wounding of a heroic girl defending her father’s life, then the occurrence, I thought, must have grown out of a condition of society worth examining on the spot. I stopped at Jackson on Tuesday to learn further details, and finding that the first accounts seemed inIcthe main to be verified by the later news, I set out for the scene of the outrage.(nsd01«ee(1aofittehoc
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Medina County Gazette
Medina, Ohio, US
Fri, May 18, 1877
Page 6
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