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Show i A COLORED GIRL LYNCHED. Bhe Put "Bough on HuU" lu the Coffee and Nine I'ersons nru Seriously III ux n Kestilt. Bavvili.e, Mo., March 14. The lifeless form of a colored girl was found dangling from a tree on a road near here Saturday, aud Identified us that of the 15-year-old servant ser-vant of W. 11. lleiiner, who resides ou the (ireeuvUle place near here. The girl became offeudefl at the action of a colored man employed em-ployed In the house, und, in seeking rcvetiirc, decided to put "rough on rats" in his eolfee. She. put the poison in the eolfee intended for the family meal aud nine persona drunk the concoction. All are nearly dying. The girl acknowledged that she intended lo kill, aud said she did not care particularly who olo !U (Tared. Friday night a guard started to take her lo jail at this place, but fell iu with a masked party who relieved them of the girl and strung her up to a tree at the tlrst crossing. |