Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1909 — INSULTED GIRL---LYNCHED [ARTICLE]

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Bullets Shot Into Hanging Body of Young Negro. Hope. Ark., Jan. 19.—After forcing the engineer of the light plant to cut off the current, leaving the town in darkness, a party of young men took a negro named Hilliard from the county Jail and hanged him to a telegraph pole. The negro had spoken insultingly to a woman clerk in a department store. Many shots were fired into the swinging body of the negro. He was eighteen years old. Woman, 60, Attacked By Negro. Fort Smith, Ark., Jan. 19— Charles Stinnet, colored, twenty-eight years of age, is a prisoner charged with attacking a Miss Levett, sixty years old.