Show EIGHT MEN LYNCHED IN GEORGIA ga alne prisoners were taken from the jail here thurs day morning and eight were shot to death by a mob of masked whit men within two hundred yards of the cen ter of the town nine men were carried to the scene of the bing but one miraculously escaped death by falling to the ground when the volley waa fired and feign ing death four of the prisoners were charge with being implicated in the mur der of holbrook and his wife several weeks ago and one was held for at tempting criminal assault the ere in jail on minor charges the mob termed just after midnight and marched to the jail where the keys were demanded the demand was made at the point of r fles and the jailor realized that resistance was useless with the keys in their pos session the mob opened all the cells ordered out the inmates and then lined them up in single file tying them with ropes the prisoners were marched to a corner lot within two hundred yards of the jail and in the heart of the town where they were bound to a fence with their hands tied behind them the work had been so quietly done that the sleeping residents of the town had not been aroused at a command by the leader the mob stepped back a few paces took deliberate aim and fired a volley from rifles shotguns and pistols into the line of prisoners every man in front of the mob fell at the first volley believing its work bad been made complete the mob quickly dispersed |