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Show LYNCHINGS SHOW A MARKED INCREASE Georgia Leads With Eighteen Out of a Total of Sixty-nine; Fourteen Victims White. M0NTG0MEEYl Ala., Jan. 1. Lynchings in the Lnite.i States in 1D15 numbered sixtj'-niue', as recorded at Tuskegee Institute and announced today. to-day. Tbis was seventeen more than in 1914. Georgia led the states with eighteen lvnehiu"?. Mississippi was second with nine. Fit'tr-fivt1 persons lynched were negroes and fourteen whites. The year before fortv-nine were negroes and three whites. Three women were 1015 mob victims. In four instanrs, according to the TuskoRec Institute records, innocent persons were put to death by mobs, as proved by later events. Lynchings by-states by-states is iven. A'.nbaruH, 9: Arkansas, o; Florida, n; Georgia. IS: Illinois, 1: Kentucky, 5: Louisiana, 2; Mississippi. 0: Missouri, 2; Ohio. 1; Oklahoma, 3; South Carolina. 1; Tennessee, 2; Texas, -5; Virginia, 1. |