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In Christian U. S.Muskogee, Okla.—Lemuel Peace, a Caucasian, went intothe colored section of the city , Sunday night and mistreatedMarie Scott, an Afro-Ameri- , can woman. To defend herself, she killed him. She wasIarrested and put into the Wagoner county jail for safe keeping. She was taken out by a masked mob and hanged to a telephone pole. The mob got into the jail by strategy. The mob pulled the scream-tng woman from her cell, tied a rope about her neck and dragged her some distance through the streets before reaching the telephone pole.- I Minneapolis Appeal.
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Denver, Colorado, US

Sat, May 23, 1914

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