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Show NEGRO LYNCHED NEAR MEMPHIS Memphis, Tcnn., Feb. 15. A mob H early today lynched an unidentified W negro accused of having attacked a. JW Kl-year-old white girl yesterday. It H is said the negro confessed. A ropo WMM was tied about his neck, ho was drag- 1 gcd to a bridge across n branch of Wm Wolf river, hanged from tho bridge IH and then the mob UBcd his body for H H pistol target jH Tho attack on the girl occurred at B Raleigh Springs, n Memphis suburb. jH Posses last night captured the negro. VMm He was Identified after being kept in H hiding several hours to avoid delivery B to the authorities After ho had been ' IH hanged and his body pierced by fifty jmmw or more bullets, it was cut down and M teken into the bushes, where it was MM discovered today. H |