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the jail, and left dangling there at the end of the rope.The young white man who met his death at the hands of the negress was in a party of young men who had ventured into the negro section of the town Sunday mdrning. The attach was unexpected and before the companions of the youth could interfere, he had been stabbed.The body of the dead negress was discovered by the sheriff about an hour after the lynching occurred. He cut the body down and, later in the day, an investigation was started. County Attorney C. E. Castle declared that he knew several members of the mob who overpowered P. J. Ryan, the night turnkey at the jail here.The fact that the mob did Its work quietly and with unhesitating dispatch was what prevented any alarm being sounded. The lynching was effected without any shots being fired and few words were spoken during the procedure.Wagoner is comparatively quiet. While the authorities are at work on a probe of the affair, citizens seem little inclined to lend them aid, and local sentiment appears to be with the mob. County Attorney Castle believes that many in the party were nonresidents. The majority of them are believed to. be farmers who live near the home of the murdered youth:In the past, several negroes have been convicted of murder here and sentenced to death, but appead to have escaped this end by their sentences being commuted to life imprisonment.
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Haskell News
Haskell, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Apr 09, 1914
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