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Women Circulate Pardon Petition.

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Women Circulate Pardon Petition.

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WOMEN CIRCULATE
PARDON PETITION

Seek Release of Negro Convicted of
Assault in Duluth.


The State Federation of Colored Women’s Club is circulating a petition for the pardon of Max Mason, a Negro who is serving time in Stillwater prison for an alleged assault on a white girl, which caused the Duluth riot and Lynching of three Negroes.

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