Lynch rule prevailed in the Loulsiena bayou country to-day when 9 large mob raided the Bastrop jail and lynched a negro, Andrew M Cloud, charged with' a criminal attack on 'a white woman.
The negro, screaming with terror, was taken by the infuriated citizens and lynched to a tree on the out: skirts of the town.
The Mer Rouge district, of which Bastrop is the centre, was once the scene of such violence that it attracted international attention. "Tt was here in 1920 that the Ku Klux Klan tortured several victims 12 death. This disclosure led to investi. gation of the Kien and its eventual abolition from the American scene.
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