NEGROES In Texas A crime is committed. A Negro suspect is arrested and lodged in jail. A business-like crowd gathers and demands the prisoner. The sheriff protests. The crowd seizes the Negro, drags him to a tree, ties a rope around his neck, hoists him in air, riddles his body with bulletsnewspapers carry stories of this kind from time to time. But this account of what happened last week in Dallas is of a rarer type, at least in the newspapers: Two men were murdered, two women assaulted. Two Negroes, Frank and Lorezo...
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