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LYNCHED FOR MURDER.; Two Negro Slayers of a Mississippi Planter Taken from Officers and Hanged by 200 Farmers.
VICKSBURG, Miss., May 3 -- "Bob" Bryant and "Will" Morris, negroes, arrested for the murder of W.H. Legg, a planter, were hanged to the Yazoo Bridge at Hayes Bluff just before daylight this morning. Bryant had made a confession early Saturday evening, implicating Morris, whom he accused of firing the fatal shot.
May 04, 1903
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