Eureka Reporter | 1906-05-18 | Page 2 | Left Her for Dead

LEFT HER FOR DEAD mississippi mob maltreats a woman accused of murder okolona miss mrs hattle acin tosh a white woman who was recent ly arrested charged with complicity n the murder of her husband and who gave bond reported to the officers at okolona that a number of men visit ed her house took her to a tree and threatened to hang her unless she re healed her alleged accomplices in the murder mrs declined to talk whereupon she was strung up for several seconds upon being lowered to the ground she still refused to an awer questions after which she declared she was strung up a second time and when the rope was taken from her neck she heard her assail ants announce that she was dead her body was carried into the woods and left there the woman said she revived and immediately came here to tell her story