A determined mob's efforts to stage 1930 lynching No. 5 succeeded last week, after police, Texas rangers, militia, had fought to prevent it.
George Hughes, 41, a Negro, stood in the prisoners' box in the courthouse at Sherman, "Athens of Texas" (1920 population, 15,031), famed locally for its cultured, 95% white people, its two colleges, 27 churches, fine schools. He pleaded guilty to the charge of assaulting white Mrs. Drew Farlow, young farmer's wife. Outside in the square milled a crowd of Shermanites and thrillseekers from the...
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