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Show MEMPHIS POLICE PREVENT LYNCHING MEMPHIS. Tenn., Sept. S. Jack C. Stewart, white, and 7-fcnry C. Johnson, a rifro, were rescued by police tonight from a c ro w d of a n ir r y w 1 ii t c men w i i o were threatening to lynch them after the neuro hmi run n'own four white children with his automobile. The mob had a noose around the npgro's neck, according to the police, when Stewart Stew-art interfered, pleading that juMce be allowed al-lowed to take its course. The crowd's anger turned against the white man, and when the police arrived, thny say, the rope was being-transferred to his neck. Both Stewart and John hi in were t alien into custody. None of the children were seriously hurt, it is said. |