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Show NEGRO PREACHER LYNCHED BY OWN RACE. IS BELIEF PURVIS, Miss.. Dec. 24. Following Follow-ing the finding of the body of Coleman Cole-man Brown, an aged negro preacher, hanging from a tree and riddled w ith bullets shortly after his release on bonds In connection with the murder of a fourtit n-yeur-old negro girl. Sheriff Williamson announced ht believed be-lieved negroes were responsible for the lynching. Sheriff Williamson stated Brown had been admitted to ball Tuesday after af-ter an Investigation had shown he knew little, If anything, ol the mur-der. mur-der. Feeling against the preacher ; among the negroes, however, he said.! had been very bitter. The bodv of tin- girl war, found suspended by a I clothes line from a tree. |