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Show w MOB TAKES NEGRO FROM COURT ROOM Columbus, Ga . Aug 14. Holding up officials of the court, a mob of ubout forty men here yesterday afternoon aft-ernoon took T. Z. Cotton, alias T. Z. McElhenny a sixteen year negro on trial and' lynched him Just beyond the city limits The negro was accused of killing Cedron Land, a white boy, near town two months ago. Guards wero overpowered in tho courthouso a few minutes after Cotton Cot-ton had been sentenced to three years in prison A Jury had just brought in a verdict of "guilty of unlawful manslaughter" ? |