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NEW AFFIDAVITS FILED ON AIKEN LYNCHING PARTYGov. McLeod Believes Truth of Testimony by Former Prisoners, Report.Pictures Made Of JailDiscrepancies in Story of Robin son, Sheriff, and Taylor, Jailer, Cause Doubt.(Preston News Service)Columbia, S. C., Nov. 18—Through the efforts of the State Detective W. W. Rogers, investigating the death and lynching of the Lowmans it has been revealed that Governor McLeod has six new affidavits involving the members of the mob. It is reported that the governor has intimated that he has no doubt that there is a real basis of truth in what the affidavits say.The affidavits are said to have been made by four Negroes and two white persons who were in the Aiken jail the night the three Lowmans were taken out and shot to death. In addition to the affidavits made by Mrs. Lucy Mooney and Charles E. Lee, who were in the jail that night, the new affiants include: Heyward Marshall and D. A. Worley, whites; J. Cliff Robinson, Walter Jennings, Joseph Rouse and Charles Chamber-lain.Sheriff worried.It is said that Nollie Robinson, high sheriff at Aiken, has made three trips to Columbia to see the Governor. It is said that Governor McLeod has ordered a photographer to go to Aiken and make photographs of the interior of the Aiken jail. He feels that there are a number of features of the stories of both Robinson and his jailer, Taylor, which have not been satisfactorily explained.Both these men testified at the coroner’s inquest that they were overpowered by the mob, none of whose members they recognized, which came from inside the jailers’ residence, “like a flock of blackbirds. Robinson said he fired two shots at them but missed and was downed by three or four men. The jailer related that the mob took his gun and keys from him.Jailer varies procedure.According to lawyers of Aikenwhenever they visited the jail to see (Continued on page 3)
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The Saint Paul Echo
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Sat, Nov 20, 1926
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