Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-17 | Page 11 | 4 More Convicted for Lynching Man

4 More C a S for Lynching Man DOUGLAS Ga March 17 AP APA AP- AP A mob that took Dave Wright 1 from the county jail here liei-e last last August 30 tied him to a a. tree and shot him t to death as the glow from the last puff of a died away has gIven over the sixteenth man for fora a term in prIson Wright a white man was the only person l lynched In Georgia in 1926 S Four men were y yesterday yester- yester ster- ster day one from four to twenty years ears and nd the U-ie others others' from one one oneto to five years John StrIckland 40 drew the longest sentence The others were vere Smith 22 Robert Bullard 22 and D. D n. n Lott 18 Seventeen men were indicted soon aftEr the mob action Mark Tanner Tan Tan- ncr ner the last one Indicted has not been arrested O Of the twelve othera others oth- oth ers era convIcted two two men receIved life Ufe sentences and the others sentences of from four to twenty years Wright was being held hekl for the slaying of Mrs ZollIe Rollins with whom h he boarded