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Show Mob Lynching Incendiary. Little Rock, Ark. Sam Powell, negro, charged with robbery and arson, ar-son, was hanged by a mob at Huttlg, Ark., Thursday night. Powell, an 18-year-old youth, It was charged, broko Into the residence of a prominent promi-nent citizen of Huttlg, took $400 and then fired the' building. Ho confessed so the police stated. The rather frail prison which housed Powell was broken into without much effort by tho mob. Tho fact that tho nogro had been hanged was not generally known until his body was found in tho morning. |