NEGROES: The Inscrutable Law

In Columbia, Mo., where a Negro was lynched last week, two men were arrested charged with " taking into the County Jail implements for use in releasing a prisoner charged with a felony." Later a grand jury returned five indictments against leaders of the lynching mob. It was not reported whether they were indicted for murder or for jail delivery.

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