1929-06-02 "Lynching Party Brings Arrests" in the Pensacola News Journal

An article in the Pensacola News Journal, published in Pensacola, Florida on June 2, 1929 "Lynching Party Brings Arrests: White Men Held After Body of Negro Is Found". Jim Mobley, a seventy-two year old African-American man was "found in company with a white woman". Subsequently, a group of white men from near Jennings, Florida "manhandled" him, cut off his hands, and dumped his body in the Suwannee River.

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