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Show I. dEf 11 Three Negroes Hanged Despite De-spite Their Pleas of Innocence Inno-cence of Wrongdonig PLEAS' OF PRIESTS HOOTED BY CROWD Rope Breaks Two Times as First Victim Goes to His SOUTH BEND. Intl., .Tunc 10. Negroes employed by the same circus us the throe who were Ivjiehetl In Duluth Inst night following fol-lowing an attack on a white wrl. attcniplcd to assuuil Helen Pen-road, Pen-road, or South Bond, when the show was hi this eily .Tune Tho assailants or the South Bend girl escaped being hfilden by companions, com-panions, the police said hero to-t to-t " DULUTH, Minn., June 1C. Virtually Virtual-ly normal conditions prevailed today on the Dululh business street.-; ox er which a mob of 5.000 person;, surged last night, sweeping tho polite from power and seizins and- lynching three negroes held in connection with an attack on a 17-year-Qld white girl. "When two companies o'f Minnesota, national guardsmen reached here at ' an earlv hour after a special train trip" from St. Paul, they found only a -fa damaged police station and littered streets as vJ3uaI evidence ofrthe mob's activity. . yj. The 124 men and 'six qfflcers went into tempoiarj can ;, prVJuiiTrig to pa- trol tho streets. pj TB I Police- Overpowered. --mH Last nlghi lynching weru aecom- ' pllshed after the city's police force 'ffoM Jiaci been overpowered by bricks ami ' ''!$H anil streams from fire- hose in an iillt'H attack on poll-e headquarters on the, (nirH principal thoroughfare. For at Io;ist lIiH t-wo hours the n.ob ruled relimjulshing l$iHf its. power only after the negroes 1m d $&.'lH been lynched. HB 1 nCSrocs "ad been arrested hi! I IvH connection with the attack on the girL.1 V which oc-urred on.a cirns gronn-l j W IwH Monday nicht. The n?grce.s wore rir-j ft"1 cus r"tistaoout.. Tho mob Ji.ild a mock : trial, declared thive cf the negroes f M guilLy and acqulttei the other tnroe, j i-m8l " who today still were in tho hands oi 'H' lhc PIice H' Rnc lnroe 'convicted" negroes were; IjU hanged within a block and a naif of; iaH; the police station, the mob hooting. 'ABi down . picas of two ri:stu that ihei I fDftflk Iaw 1)0 permitted to Uikc lis course. uL'BB It toolc three starts to hang the first aJvK negro, as the rope broke the first fBijliftj A two times. -visiiBP 4. After the mob had dispersed, the rrmm 1 7; police cut down the bodleo of the n - &li'H rocs, which had not been multllated. $1-2r?B ,J11le authorities did not expect any ftU?iaf - further trouble today. i l&tM ' Tn0 inJ,JrIeH suffered by eight po- Klfwm : 1'comon a"d a newspaper man ii the jftf&H brick battle and a fire hose attack on jp,B ( the. police station were said to bo trl- 111131 Ai1 hnvcblisration of the action of 'SsSlIll lne mf)0 uc" made, it was under- Mafi&M stood today. |