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...enclosed, this lynching was the twenty-first of the year. Since Kirkland was lynched there have been two additional ones-Lacy Mitchell, on Sept. 27, also at Thomasville, Ga., shot to death by a masked and robed band for testifying against two white men who were charged with rape upon a colored woman; and on Oct.1, John Willie Clark was lynched at Cartersville, Ga., charged with the murder of the Chief of Police...
...above 23 listed by N. A. A. C. P., TIME recognizes 18 as lynchings. Beginning with Willie Kirkland as TIME'S sixteenth, John Willie Clark made seventeen (TIME, Oct. 13) and Bill Roan (No. 9 on above list) must be added, making 18. Bill Roan, accused of rape of a white woman, was seized and shot by what newsmen first reported as a sheriff's posse. Later investigation showed that the killers had not been legally deputized, were therefore lynchers...
...Whitley (No. 20) is unknown at Rhyne, Ga. On the day before at Rhine, Ga., a mob seized M. C. Wylie, accused of rape, shot him thrice, failed to kill him. He is now recovering in jail at Eastman...
Arizona's filibuster could not beat the Boulder Dam bill in the Senate. Its pleas for a veto were ignored. Last week's suit released all its pent-up legalistic fury against what it considers a rape of its sovereign rights and resources...
...Last one: Nov. 20, 1902, at Sullivan; Negro James Dillard, charged with rape. Indiana has had 24 lynchings-14 Negroes, ten whites...