Center, Tex., Aug. 3—A mob of more than 1,000 men yesterday afternoon stormed the county jail, battered down the steel doors, wrecked the steel cell and took out Lige Daniels, a negro charged with the murder of a white woman, and hanged him to a limb of a convenient oak tree in the court house yard.
The lynching followed announcement of a full confession made to the grand jury now in session and also to the district attorney.
The wife of a farmer living near Center was brutally attacked and later found unconscious at a lonely point near her home last Thursday night. Her skull was crushed and her body bruised and lacerated. She died Friday.
Decatur, IL Review Aug 3, 1920 p1
The lynching followed announcement of a full confession made to the grand jury now in session and also to the district attorney.
The wife of a farmer living near Center was brutally attacked and later found unconscious at a lonely point near her home last Thursday night. Her skull was crushed and her body bruised and lacerated. She died Friday.
Decatur, IL Review Aug 3, 1920 p1
Center, Tex., Aug. 3—A mob of more than 1,000 men yesterday afternoon stormed the county jail, battered down the steel doors, wrecked the steel cell and took out Lige Daniels, a negro charged with the murder of a white woman, and hanged him to a limb of a convenient oak tree in the court house yard.
The lynching followed announcement of a full confession made to the grand jury now in session and also to the district attorney.
The wife of a farmer living near Center was brutally attacked and later found unconscious at a lonely point near her home last Thursday night. Her skull was crushed and her body bruised and lacerated. She died Friday.
Decatur, IL Review Aug 3, 1920 p1
The lynching followed announcement of a full confession made to the grand jury now in session and also to the district attorney.
The wife of a farmer living near Center was brutally attacked and later found unconscious at a lonely point near her home last Thursday night. Her skull was crushed and her body bruised and lacerated. She died Friday.
Decatur, IL Review Aug 3, 1920 p1
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