Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-18 | Page 6 | Defendant Lynched as Jury Deliberates

D Defendant Lynched As Jury Deliberates OXFORD Miss Sept 18 WP Ell ElI Ellwood Ell Ell- w wood od Higginbotham negro defendant defendant defendant defend defend- ant in a a murder trial here was taken from the Lafayette yette county jail last night by a mob and lynched Higginbotham was seized ant and hanged while the jury was deliberating deliberating deUber aUng his case He Hc was on trial for forthe forthe forthe the s slaying of Lyn Roberts a white whiteman whiteman man l last t May The members of or the mob snob broke into th the jail and overpowered the sheriff sheriff and an and three deputies and took possession of pf the prisoner They carried car car- ned ried Higginbotham into the country about two and a half miles from the town and hanged him