Deseret Evening News | 1901-07-16 | Page 4 | Local News

At Ii 11 n 1 negro bus hlll Just been lynched The fun cause QUIO for his bin lynching is 15 not nol tho usual crime whirls which IK is I so oer n nn tin excuse and fir 1 tint but III I the heinous one of lr stealing MI n a bottle of pop nil lilt fiO 5 trivial thoU In 1 communities the tho would receive no greater gimlet mert titan than a n reprimand from the committing magistrate The crowd that lynched Louis Lotus Thompson wo watt n St bloodthirsty murderous one nothing more nothing Ices Icu The came pome may mU bo ho said of oC the great majority of oC lynching crowds Louls s Thompson was murdered In told cold blood by the of ot Girard Louisiana