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Show NEGRO IS ACQUITTED, Unusual Outcome of Assault Case in Mississippi. JACKSON, Miss., April 22. For the first time In tho history of Mississippi a negro charged with criminal assault has been acquitted, by a Jury of whlto men Stewart Johnson, a negro, woq yesterday yester-day tried on the charge of assaulting MJss ! "Mamie Marsh, a young whlto woman, In the heart of Jackson two months ago, and although Jake Turnbull, another negro, swore that he saw Johnson commit com-mit tho deed, the Jury did not belicvo him and at midnight returned a verdict of acquittal. Judge Miller was called up and ho discharged dis-charged tho prisoner with tho injunction to got out of town, which he did on tho first train. |