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Show iOB IN TEXAS I LYNCHES WHITE I Ailecjed Slayer of Policeman J Taken From Jail and Hanged on Tree ! Ful'.T WORTH, Tex.. Dec. Tom W. Vickery, a white man held ct hai gc in lirder H with the killing Mom; nigbl pi Po j H llceman Jeff C Couch was tak. from the county Jail here shortly aftei I midnight by a mob and hanged. Scv j cral shots were fired Into his bod I Twenty-five masked men enteri i he and ovei powered Lhi lallei ; jH and his assistants, Opening Yiek i' ll cell the mob removed tho prisoner. H clad only in night clothes, to a grove H near the packing house district, and H swung him lo a tree. After firing u H few shots into tho body, the mob dis- H Sheriff Smith and Chief of Polici Porter, warned anonymously by tele- H phone that Vickery was being hung- IH ed, reached the seem- shortly uftcr IH the mob hud disbanded v'l, leery was 30 years of age and a jH chauffeur. Policeman Couch answer-, answer-, i call I ram Mond night bH to arrest an alleged Intoxicated man The officer was shot when he arrived S at the garage. Vtfckery was arrested. I County officers said today tin H lynching would be Investigated bv tlx BH next session of the district grand jury |