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Governor Johnson DeploresYouths' Lynchings HerePledges ProsecutionBodies Found Dangling From River BridgeBoys Arrested For Allegedly Waylaying GirlMERIDIAN, Miss. — lt;SNS— Two 14-year-old boys were lynched about 35 miles south or here, It was disclosed Monday alter bodies ot the youths were found dahJing frcm trr-vct bridge. *“,^uTlie two boys, identified as Charlie Lang and Frnest Green, both ol Sliubuta, were taken from Quitman jail Sunday by a mob of blood-thirsty white men, given the customary pre-lynching treatment, and then left to die In a deserted woody section.Another customary incident attached to the lynching report was that the mob members were unidentified. And there was nothing unusual about the report that tne mob overpowered the city marshal, G~ P. Dabbs, in taking the two boys from the jail.Reports reaching here said the two boys were arrested Tuesday ot last week and accused of waylaying a 13-year-old white girl who was walking home from school.Both of the boys allegedly entered pleas of guilt to charges of attempted assault.Brandon PreacherYouths Held In AttemptedRape Taken By MobJACKSON, Miss.—Governor Paul B. Johnson promised Monday night that he would do “everything that it is in my duty in this case to see that the guilty parties are apprehended and punished”, in condemning the lynching of two 14-year-old :Negro boys at Shubuta, in Clarke County, “Sunday. ' .Identify Soldier Killed In NorthIreland SquabbleINDON — (ANP) — United Army headquarters her* this week that the satin a street light between military police and soldiers on Sept. 30 at A trim, Northern Ireland, has been identified at Pvt. William Jenkins of Evansville, Ind. The soldier was the victim of knife wounds.Trouble is said to have started in a pub (tavern) between soldiers who had been drinking there. They moved out to the street and continued the argument. Military police approached and ordered them on. When they refused to go on an altercation followed. Pvt. Jenkins was killed in the melee.Hinds County Local Board 3 Drafts DelinquentsGovernor Johnson said that he had talked to Sheriff Lloyd Mc-Neal of Clarke County with reference to the matter and that he had been informed that the two Negro boys allegedly attempted to rape a 13-year-rold white girl last week and were arrested and carried to jail at Quitman, subsequently the Governor said the sheriff related the two suspects were arraigned before a Justice of the Feace and pleaded guilty to the attempt assault upon the wbttn girl.The Governor said tfic Sheriff told him that the boys were carried back to the Quitman jail frcm which they were taken Saturday by a mob of unidentified men and carried to the railroad bridge under which they asserledly committed the attempt assault and lynched.“I ask the Sheriff, why he did not notify the Governor so the prisoners might have been protected, and he informed me that he did not think of it,” the Chief Executive said. ‘ The Sheriff said he had conferred with the 'Prosecuting Attorney of Ciarke County and that official had advised him that in his opinion it was safe to leave the prisoners there.” The Governor said, “The Sheriff told me that he saw no evidence of a lynching but I told him it was his duty to notify the Governor so the prisoners could be protected as had been done be-atthitoreihasHinds County Local Board No. 3, Raymond, MississinDi. earlv thisSisH(Continude on Back Page)]Ardath*lio
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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Mississippi, US
Sat, Oct 17, 1942
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