Lynching Probe

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Brownsville Herald
Place of publication: Brownsville,TX
Date of publication: 9/25/1933 0:00
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Lynching Probed TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Sept. 35- (/P)-The second lynching in Tuscaloosa county within the past six weeks was under investigation by the sheriff’s department today. Sheriff Shamblin ordered the Inquiry yesterday after the body of Dennis Cross, negro under bond on El charge of assaulting a white women, was taken from his home by men posing as officers and shot to death. Lynching Probed TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Sept. 35- (/P)-The second lynching in Tuscaloosa county within the past six weeks was under investigation by the sheriff’s department today. Sheriff Shamblin ordered the Inquiry yesterday after the body of Dennis Cross, negro under bond on El charge of assaulting a white women, was taken from his home by men posing as officers and shot to death.