TWO GIRLS LYNCHED.
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Title
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TWO GIRLS LYNCHED.
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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The Owensboro Messenger
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Publication Place
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Owensboro, Kentucky
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Publication Date
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5/13/1897
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Transcript
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TWO GIRLS LYNCHED. Hanged to a Tree By a Mob for Poixnnlug a Family. Huntsville, Ala., May 12. Mollie Smith and Mandy Franks, negro girls were found swinging from ropes from trees on the side of the road leading from Jeff, Ala., to Huntsville. The lynching was done at an early hour by a mob of about twenty persons. The two girls were suspected of poisoning the family of Joshua O. Kelly at Jeff.