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Show THREE NEGROES ARE LYNCHED BY MOBS; BODIES ARE BURNED LIN'COLiNTOX. On.. Oct. 6. Three negroes tonight had pnlrt lynch law's penalty pen-alty for the fatal shooting early Sunday morning- of Red Freeman, a deputy sheriff of Uncolii countv. The mob, which spent all of yesterday and most of last niyht searching through swamps and ruiiebrakes for Jack Cordon, Cor-don, the negro aeeused of killing the sheriff, had dispersed tonight, and tho county was quiet, although a search was being made for evidence showing that other negroes were implicated in the shooting. Gordon and "William Brown, who is nl-letred nl-letred to havo aided Gordon in escaping al tor the shooting, were burnt a t tho. slake before daylight today by a mob of a thousand persons after Gordon had been ta ken from Lincoln county officers who captured him. M ose Vv e e man. a n e gro c h a r go d wit h misleading members of tho mob during their search for Gordon, was shot to death when he tried to escape. Ueputy Sheriff Freeman died late today from tho gunshot gun-shot wounds inflicted by Gordon. Gordon was caught five miles from Washington, Ga., late Sunday night, and kept in ja il there until 2 o'clock this morning, wheu lie was turned over to the authorities of this county. Once in Lincoln county the motv seized the negro, brouglrt up Blown, who had, been caughl earlier in the night, and fastened both to an old wagon axle. Wood and brush were piled around the negroes and tho torch applied. ' Negro Sent to Penitentiary. . CARROLTON. Mo., Oct. 6. William TVardlow, a negro. was sonteneed to thirty years in the state penitentiary today, to-day, following an alleged attackhe is said to have made last night upon a white woman passenger on a train of which he was a porter. The negro denied the charge, but pleaded gui! ty to another cliarue, was sentenced a nd hurried awa y to the penitentiary by the authorities as a precautionary measure. |