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Court Gets Executioner Lynch Story
Roosevelt Hurd, accused executioner in the Willie Earle lynching case, admits participation but says he did not fire the fatal shot. The alleged statements, offered by the prosecution, describe a mob taking Willie Earle from Pickens jail and forcing the killing near the Saluda river dam with multiple defendants named.
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Greenville
S. C
Roosevelt Carlos Hurd
Willie
Urd
Pickens
Hurd
Ernest Stokes
T. W. Brown
Stokes
Franklin Shephard
Willie Earle
Shephard
Pickens County
Paul F. Griggs, Jr
Roosevelt
Carlos Mura
Felow
Saluda River Dam
Hendrix Rector