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seeing that all such criminals are . given a fair trial and If guilty. | made to pay the extreme penalty. | I- know this would have been done 1 in this case because the Juries of | Clarke County are gcod, law-abid- i lng citizens, and would have seen . that -Justice was done.”The bodies of the two 14-year-old ' Negro boys, Charlie Lang and Ernest Green, of Shubuta, were found hanging from the old railroad bridge spanning the Chickakaway river where they are alleged to have attempted the attack upon the 13-year-old white girl, by a searching party led by the Clarke County Sheriff Monday.The mob is believed to have overpowered the jailer sometime Sunday taking the two boys from the jail and lynching them by hanging them from the river bridge.
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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Mississippi, US
Sat, Oct 17, 1942
Page 8
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