Mob Lynches 3 Negroes Who Attacked Girl
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Mob Lynches 3 Negroes Who Attacked Girl
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Newspapers
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N/A
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Publisher
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The Grand Island Daily Independent
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Publication Place
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Grand Island, NE
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Publication Date
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August 13, 1933
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Mob Lynched 3 Negros Who Attacked Girl
Sheriff Halted by Angry Mob While Fleeing With Prisoners
Tuscaloosa, Ala., Aug. 14. One of three negros spirited away by a lynching party was still missing today after the bodies of his two companions were found riddled by bullets. The three, Dan Pippen, Jr., 18, Elmore Clark, 28, and A.T. Harden, 16, had been indicted for killing Miss Vaudine Maddox, 21-year-old white girl, whose battered body was found in a ravine.
Police said that as a result of rumors of a threatened attack on the jail here, they decided to remove the prisoners to Birmingham for safe-keeping. Sheriff R. L. Shamblin said yesterday near the Jefferson county line by two automobile loads of armed men, who seized the negros.
Later the bodies of Pippen and Harden were found near Blocton. Acting on instructions from Government B. M. Miller, Judge Henry B. Foster ordered a grand jury investigation. Bitter criticism came from the International Labor Defense lawyers in the case is directly responsible for this violence.
