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Show NEGRO TAKEN FROM TRAIN AND SHOT COLUMBIA, Ga., Dec. 21. Boarding a Centra! Georgia passenger train at Smiih-"wlle, Smiih-"wlle, Ga.. a mob of about fifty men seized Charles West, a negro returned soldier, and hurried him away to a secluded spot where he was shot to death. The negro had been arrested in Jacksonville, Fla., on a charge of having killed Emrnett L. Brightweil, a farmer of Richland, Ga., and was being returned to Ajnericus to an-swpr an-swpr to the charge. The body of the negTO was found late in the day hanging in a tree and riddied by bullets. A coroner's Inquest returned a "verdict that West came to his death at the hands of unidentified men. |