A stooped and toothless crone of 71 shuffled along a country road near Kingston, Md. one morning last week. Mrs. Mary Denston was on her way to see her daughter. Suddenly, from behind, black hands were laid upon her. Cackling and kicking feebly she was dragged by a young Negro buck to a clump of bushes. There, amid a flurry of leaves dancing rustily in the autumn sunshine, she was raped.
That night near Salisbury a lieutenant of State police arrested George Armwood, a 24-year-old Negro with a good-for-nothing reputation in the neighborhood....
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