Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — NEGROES LYNCHED BY MOBS [ARTICLE]

NEGROES LYNCHED BY MOBS

Three Colored Persons Appease Wrath of Texans and Tennesseeans. Marshall. Tex., Feb 'l6—Unidentified men lynchdd two * negrces, a woman and a man. George Sanders and Mary Jackson, hanging them to the same tree, just across the Panola county line. The negroes had lived at the same house with Tennie Sneed, the young negro who shot and killed Paul Strange, a white man, on Jan. 29. Memphis. Tenn., Feb. 16.—A mob near this city lynched an unidentified negro accused of having attacked a sixteen-year-old white girl. It is said the negro confessed in part.