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NEGRO HANGED FROM A POLEMOB CAME AND LYNCHED BLACKMAN IN MISSISSIPPI.Was from Kansas City, Attempted to Assault Two White Women and ^ Stole Horse and Gun.Mobile, Ala., Oct. 22.—Robert Clark, alias Dan Dove, a negro from Kansas City, was banged from a telegraph pole near the Lucedale depot of the Mobile. Jackson Kansas City railroad by 300 masked men at an early hour, after being mysteriously spirited from the jail of Jackson county, Miss. The negro was arrested late Friday night by a posse who followed him to witn in two miles of Mobile from Lucedale, where he had attempted to assault two white women and had stolen a horse and shotgun. The negro offered re-si stance, and was shot in the shoulder. Deputy Sneriff Hinton ef Lecedale took the prisoner from the posse and managed to evaue a Mississippi mob bent on lynching him. Hinton placed the negro in the Lucedale jail, and with aother deputy guarded him until early morning, when both fell asleep. When they awakened the negro was missing, and was subsequ* ntly found strung up to a telegraph pole a snort distance from the jail. There is absolutely no clue to the identity of anymembers of the mob.1Had a Bad Record.Kansas City, Oct 22.—Robert Clark, the negro lynched at Lucedale, Miss.,had a bad police record here. For ten years up to the time he left Kansas City a year ago Clark was the prize bully of Cottage Lane, a negro settlement here, and had served innumerable sentences in the county jail for paticipating in cutting affrays. He was 35.
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Carbondale Daily Free Press
Carbondale, Illinois, US
Tue, Oct 23, 1906
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