Word: clays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent murders. The girl-perhaps the detective would choose to describe Maria Hahn- the girl was returning home at dusk when she was seized upon and subjected to such-and-such cruelty, slashed in such-and-such a way, murdered thus-and-so, finally buried in soft clay soil near a farmhouse...
Mobbery brewed in Jackson, Ky., after Chester Rugate, tenant farmer, had murdered prosperous, farm-owning Lawyer Clay Watkins, his landlord. At 2 o'clock Christmas morning lynchers broke into the county jail, roped the jailer to his bed, with his keys opened Fugate's cell. Accompanied by scores of assistant assailants they rode Fugate out of town, black-jacked him, trampled on him, drilled his body with 13 bullet holes, pitched him over a 20-ft. embankment...