. Crisis. t hebe punished as for a misdemeanor. Thecourt allowed the white audience to vote onthe subject. They were divided in sentiment,but the judge gave the colored man a severesentence. The governor pardoned thecolored man. CRIME. T YNCHINGS have occurred as follows:^ At Mondak, Mont., a Negro, for shoot-ing the sheriff and his deputy. At Union City, Tenn., one colored man, forthe murder of an aged white man. At Issaquena, Miss., a colored man, forthe murder of a white man. At Albany, Ga., a colored man, for noapparent reason. In the county jail at West Point, Miss., acolored man, for an
. Crisis. t hebe punished as for a misdemeanor. Thecourt allowed the white audience to vote onthe subject. They were divided in sentiment,but the judge gave the colored man a severesentence. The governor pardoned thecolored man. CRIME. T YNCHINGS have occurred as follows:^ At Mondak, Mont., a Negro, for shoot-ing the sheriff and his deputy. At Union City, Tenn., one colored man, forthe murder of an aged white man. At Issaquena, Miss., a colored man, forthe murder of a white man. At Albany, Ga., a colored man, for noapparent reason. In the county jail at West Point, Miss., acolored man, for an assault upon the sheriff. At Kosciusko, Miss., and at Marshall, Tex.,colored men, for alleged assaults on whitewomen. At Springfield, Miss., Hickory, Miss., andPensacola, Fla., colored men, for murderousassaults on white men. ^ The Pennsylvania legislature is consider-ing a bill to abolish lynching by subjectingthe sheriff to forfeiture of office and thepayment of a fine to the relatives of thelynched HARRIET TUBMAN—1813 (?)-1913. MEN or m MONTH
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