Garland Globe | 1906-05-19 | Page 2 | Left Her for Dead

LEFT HER FOR DEAD. Mississippi Mob Maltreats a Woman Accused of Murder. Okolonn, Miss. Mrs. Hattlo Mcln-tosh, Mcln-tosh, a white womnn who wns recent-ly recent-ly nrrestod chnrged with complicity in the murder of her husband and who gavo hond, reported 'to the ofllcers at Okolonn that a number of men visit-cd visit-cd her house, took her to n trco nnd threatened to hang her unless she re-vealed re-vealed hor alleged accomplices In tho . murder. Mrs. Mcintosh declined to talk, whereupon she wns strung up for several seconds. Upon being lowered to the ground she still refused to an-swer an-swer questions, after which she do-clnrcd do-clnrcd she wns strung up a second time, nnd when tho rope wns taken from her neck sho hoard her assail-ants assail-ants nnnounce thnt she wns dead. Her body wns carried Into the woods nnd left there. Tho womnn said she revived and immediately .came here to tell her story.