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NEGROES BROUGHT HERESheriff Ed Douthitt and deputies, of Sullivan, were here Monday afternoon with the three negroes charged with the Farmerburg assaults, but Sheriff Greeley Wines refused to allow them ■ to be placed in jail here, fearing mob | violence. _| The negroes are charged with as-! saulting and brutally beating two white women at Fannersburg early Monday raonday morning. The negroes were arrested about noon Monday tnd were immediately rushed away by the Sullivan county sheriff and deputies for fear of mob violence, and which would likely have taken charge of the negroes had they not been so speedily spirited away, as the tention was at fever heat.At the latest report they were finally landed in the state reformatory at Jeffersonville. iThe negroes were employed on con- j struction work in the building of some bridges or. the Dixie “B” line and had been working near the scene of their crime.
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Bloomfield News
Bloomfield, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 25, 1921
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