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SAVED A NEGRO FROM LYNCHING I BY ANGRY MOB{associated press telegram!Bluefield. W. Va., Oct. 23.—An ittempt to lynch George Roten, a | legro, accused of the murder of Ed-! jar L. Holmes, jr., a white man, 'ailed here today when the police mrried Roten through a back doors f the county jail and started him; :or Princeton. The mob angered at! Etoten’s escape, notified the people f Princeton and a crowd soon gatii-, ?red at the jail there. Again the '■ police got their man out of the jail j ind started over the hills to Charleston.Holmes was on his way home last light with a party of companions nrhen they became involved in a fight with a number of negroes. Stones were thrown, and when onethem struck Roten’s house he ran into the street, and it was charged, fired into the crowd of white men.Holmes died an hour later in a hospital.“ — — — - —REQUISITION HONORED,{ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAM)Columbus, Oct. 23.—The governor's office today honored a requisition from the governor of Indiana for the return of Fred Li nick, under arrest in Cincinnati, charged in Marion, Ind., with grand larceny.
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Newark Advocate
Newark, Ohio, US
Sat, Oct 23, 1915
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