Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-12-16 | Page 2 | Freed Negro Found Hanged

FREED NEGRO FOUND HANGED Failure of Grand Jury to In Indict In- In dict Followed by Killing COLUMBIA Tenn Dec 16 P A 2 year old negro a grand jury refused to indict on a charge of attempted attack attack at at- tack on an old year girl was near here last night I The body of ot the victim Cord Cheek was as found suspended from a rope tied to the limb of a tree after Sheriff Claude Godwin said he received an anonymous telephone call advising that he would laid find a dead negro at atthe the thc forks of the road in the Glendale lection nearby In response to a request to come tad Md get him the sheriff said he went to the place designated and found the body Godwin said marks which appeared appeared ap ap- to have been n made by bullets were found on the body and that the negro apparently died shortly before the hanging The attempted attack on th girl an orphan was alleged to have occurred occurred oc oc- about a month ago in the see sec jUon ilon where the negro was lynched Officers here said they did not know the negro was in the thc section until the body was fou found d. d