Show TEXAS MOB HANGS SLAYERS OF GIRLS COLUMBUS Texas Nov 13 Iff A A mob of some persons In Including Including including In- In several women hanged two negro boys bos last night for tor the brutal I slaying of oC Geraldine Kollmann 19 I high school honor graduate Ten masked and armed me men forced two officers to surrender Ernest Collins 15 and Benn Benny Mitchell 16 who allegedly had confessed confessed con con- attacking the girl and throwing throwing throwing throw throw- ing her body into a creek October October Octo Octo- ber 19 The mob hurried its victims to a alive alive live oak tree and quickly strung them up despite the plea pica of th the Rev E. E B. B Marmion Episcopal rec- rec rec- rec tor tar to let the law take its course White folks please dont don't do this pleaded Mitchell as the hangman's hangman knot was slipped about his neck Collins apparently unshaken peered Into Mitchells Mitchell's face lace am and grinned Sheriff Sherif Frank er an and Deputy Harr Harry Townsend were returning re returning returning re- re turning the prisoners from Houston where they had been held for tor safekeeping safekeeping safe safe- keeping to Columbus for juvenile juvenil court trial toda today |