Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1918 — IS LYNCHED FOR DISLOYALTY [ARTICLE]

IS LYNCHED FOR DISLOYALTY

R. P. Praeger, Said to Se of German Parentage, Hanged in Illinois. Collinsville, HL, April P. Praeger, said to be of German parentage, was hanged to a tree one mile south of the city limits her 6 about midnight by a mob of 350 persons. The mob dragged Praeger from the basement of the city hall, where he had been in hiding. Praeger was accused of making disloyal remarks in a ■speech he made recently to miners at Maryville, HL