Reports Are Made On Duluth Lynching.
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REPORTS ARE MADE ON
DULUTH
LYNCHING.
At a Meeting of the St.
Paul Branch
N. A. A. C. P. at St. James
Church.
Responding to the call for a meeting of the St. Paul Branch, N. A. A. C.
P., St. James A. M. E. Church was packed to capacity to hear reports from the
recent mob murders at Duluth.
Dr. Valdo Turner presided and Atty. J. Louis
Ervin, who went to Duluth to investigate, made a lengthy and concise report that
was listened to with profound attention.
Atty. W. F. Francis also read the
report of a special detective who was sent by the association.
Both reports
caused little doubt to be left in the minds of the audience that the lynched men
were innocent of the crime for which they were murdered.
It was also
established in the minds of the people that no one of the fourteen colored men
now in the Duluth jail was guilty.
The audience was asked to contribute
something toward defraying the expense already gone to and in a few moments
$159.19 was laid upon the table.
Twelve of the men who were members of the
mob have been indicted by the special grand jury and have been placed in jail
charged with murder in the first degree.
Investigations are still in
progress and when the men charged as afore-said are brought to trial their
conviction is confidently expected.