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Blood Fear Lynching Reported In Florida Jail Disappearance
A 30 year old Negro farm laborer Jesse Woods disappeared from a Wildwood jail after a bloodied scene was found and a bunk overturned. Police and state officers, aided by the FBI and National Guard possible help, conducted a day long search with no clues. Local officials fear a lynching. Woods had been jailed for insulting a white woman and drunkenness.
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Wildwood
Fia
Jesse Woods
Ed Mullis
Leroy Collins
Florida Sheriff's Bureau
M. H. Bowman
Sumter County
FBI
Adj
Mark Lance
Collins
National Guard
Florida Highway Patrol
Florida
Tampa
Seaboard Air, Line Railway
William A. Fordham
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People