Saved from Mob of Negroes.
Columbus, Ga. Dec 6—Only the most determined effort on the part of white men has prevented the lynching of William Vaughn at the hands of a negro mob in Russell County, Ala. Vaughn, after capture, confessed that he robbed his wife's grandmother set fire to her house murdered her and threw her bleeding body into the flames a few days ago.
The Washington Post, December 7 1904 (Washington, D.C.)

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