Negro Protected by Guardsmen at Jail in Alabama
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Title
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Negro Protected by Guardsmen at Jail in Alabama
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Author
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N/A
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Publisher
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The Piqua Daily Call
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Publication Place
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Piqua, OH
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Publication Date
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August 14, 1933
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Transcript
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Victim of Bungled Lynching Is Watched as Threats Are Circulated by Mob.
Tuscaloosa. Ala., Aug. 15, (U.P.)---the Alabama National Guard surrounded the county jail today to protect the Negro victim of a bungled lynching. Threats were circulated that a. mob would storm the jail. The Negro was Elmore Clark, 28. who was taken from the Sheriff Saturday night with both Dan Pippen, Jr., 18, and A. T. Harden, 16, also Negroes. The bodies of Pipen and Harden were found riddled with bullets in a roadside ditch early Sunday. Clark was found in a shanty last night. He was in a serious condition from two bullet wounds. Authorities believed the mob had left him beside Pippen and Harden thinking he was dead and that he
