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Show HANGING OF MAN TO CiSCil CROSS WAS FAKED STOY Blaefleld OQcers Issue s Statement Denouncing , Story of Lynching. BLVEHELD, W. Va., May S4. 1 dignaat at tha psblicatioa ia eertaia paper of an , abwlotely "f.ked" story that a naa had beea lynched by hanging to a church erou her several da j. ago, Mayor Slower and Chief of Police Poatlethwaite today iesued th following atateneat: "Th publica,tioa purporting to be aa account of a lyaching of a maa by hanging to the pir of a church u I mad out of th whole eloth. There ha. been bo fatal ahooting her la eii year, and never in th history f the city ha., there been a mob." A movement ia on foot to bring auit for lihel against paper that published the false report. |