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Show PATTERN AFTER TEXAS. Negro Lynched in Illinois, Being Cooked by Kerosene. W. T. Hyatt, a negro school teacher, was lynched at Belleville, Ills., Saturday, Sat-urday, for shooting and mortally wounding County Superintendent Charle3 Hertel of St. Clair county. Hertel had refused to renew the teaching teach-ing certificate of Wyatt, and the negro ne-gro came into his office and attacked him. WTyatt was hanged to the telephone polo In the public square in front of the court house. Before life was extinct ex-tinct he was cut down, saturated with coal oil and burned. |
