Louisiana Mob Drowns One Woman Suspect

Title
Louisiana Mob Drowns One Woman Suspect
Source Type
Newspaper
Publisher
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser
Publication Place
Newark, NJ
Publication Date
07/26/1910
Transcript
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.
Sources for
Laura Porter

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