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Show NEGRO IS LYNCHED Mob Takes Dying Man from Jail and Burns Body Meridian, Miss.. 'Pril 13. Tom O Nell, a negro who shot and killed i Jailer Temple here today, was shot by tho officers in a fight in the basement base-ment of Hie jail. A crowd of nearly 2.000 people took O'Nell from tbo officers before he died, carried blua to a telephone pole, and hanged him. Afterwards the body w8 lowered, the throat cut and the clothing saturated with kerosene and set oa fire. . . . Temple was killed by O'Nell when the jailer went to tbo assistance of i a deputy whose revolver the negro had secured. Geo. Williams, another negro, Is charged with assisting O'Nell. nnd I threats have beeu made to lynch him. ' |