Probe Killing Negro Suspects in Girl's Death
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Probe Killing Negro Suspects in Girl's Death
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Newspapers
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N/A
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Publisher
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The Mexia Weekly Herald
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Publication Place
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Mexia, TX
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Publication Date
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August 17, 1933
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PROBE KILLING NEGRO SUSPECTS IN GIRL'S DEATH
TUSCALOOSA, Ala., (UP)--21 grand jury will be summoned today to investigate the lynching of two young negroes charged with murdering a white girl. While the international labor defense, whose attorneys were threatened with lynching and forbidden from serving as the negroes' counsel, charged local officials with responsibility for the lynching, Judge Henry B. Foster said he would order a "sincere and thorough" investigation. Three negroes, Dan Pippen Jr., 18, A. T. Harden, 16, and Elmore Clark, 28, all charged with murdering Vaudine Maddox, 18, were taken from Deputy Sheriffs who were removing them to Birmingham for protection. The bodies of Pippen and Harden were found beside the highway early Sunday, riddled with bullets. Clark was not found and authorities thought the mob had told him to leave the state. The negroes were handcuffed together when taken by the mob. ' The handcuff that held Clack to Pippen had been unlocked. Pippen and Harden were still hand-cuffed together when found. Judge Foster blamed the international defense for the lynching. He said local feeling was stirrer: by reports the organization will make another effort to have its attorneys defend the negroes officials had knowledge a group of citizens were determined to keep "this case from becoming another Scottsboro affair," he said.
