Lynchings in USA

New York: Two lynchings occurred in different parts of the South yesterday. One was in Georgia, where a young negro was burned at the stake for having robbed and killed a white postwoman and stolen her automobile. The lynching was witnessed by 2000 persons. Various individuals shot at the negro while he burned. Another negro was hung in Texas. He had been arrested for an alleged attack on a white girl. A posse was sent out to find him after he escaped from prison, and later he was found hanging from a tree. — ODT, 20.5.1922