Show HOODED THRONG BEATS EA TS ATTORNEY I a I Ba Back Back Lacerated ChristIna Eve By in Georgia R Rt t Ga Ca Dec 28 2 rny By The Associated 1 Iresa Press of o Wimberly E Brown prominent attorney y by moro than thann thana n score of o hooded men near Lyons LS Ga on en Christmas eve evo was report report- reported report report-fd Id I'd Monday lon to County JUdge R N who hat I ha ordered an In- In In r on Brown Drown who recently n In III the prosecution llon ot of four mad f accused of or fatally beating Willie for tor Iho alleged theft of If syrup Is reported to have ha told his story to Judo Jud o Hardman and to have bave exhibited sc severe ro lacera- lacera In on his Ills back but has declined to discuss the case ease publicly Information supplied by sup sup sup- sup pI 1 d d eye ce witnesses Is to the th effect thai tha Drown Grown was seized In front ot of ofa II a dug drug store aloro at Lyons Lons just at twilight by a band of or n nit n RU it 11 n 30 men their faces hid hid- hidden hid den by lIy hoods who sho rode Into tile the elt city in automobiles The attorney was taken some dis dl tIC Into the country his Ills cloth cloth- clothing Inc cloth ing stripped off orr and flogged r v V Her Ier which he be was re- re ret ret t rc-t t n irn Jn i d to the town and flung from th automobile Into the street In Int font f ont oat ot or the th drug store All ot or the men charged chare with flogging Wilson Nilson were acquitted at al trial Wilson died soon loon after tile tIe whipping which was adminis adminis- administered administered administered last lad July |