Louisiana Mob Drowns One Woman Suspect
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Title
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Louisiana Mob Drowns One Woman Suspect
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Source Type
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Newspaper
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Publisher
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser
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Publication Place
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Newark, NJ
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Publication Date
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07/26/1910
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Transcript
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LOUISIANA MOB DROWNS
ONE WOMAN SUSPECT
MONROE, La., July 26 —Unldentiflet
men broke into the jail here yesterda
and carried off Laura Porter, colored
keeper of a resort where several whit
men are reported to have been robbed
It la believed she was thrown into th
Onachita river and drowned.
About the same time that the cit;
Jail was broken open, five short-tern
prisoners made their escape from th
Onachita parish Jail. Two of these ar
negroes, the other three white mer
but this Jail delivery hBB no apparen
connection with the selsure of th
negro woman.
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Sources for
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Laura Porter
