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As printed: LYNCHING IS RESULT OF COURT FREEING NEGRO
ContextAiken is a town in western South Carolina. A lynching is a killing by a mob acting outside the law; a directed verdict of not guilty is an order by the trial judge acquitting a defendant before the jury is allowed to decide, on the ground that the evidence is insufficient.
As printed: 210,000 IN GRAVE PERIL.
ContextWuchang is a walled city on the south bank of the Yangtse River, across from Hankow in central China. Since the summer the Cantonese armies of the Nationalist movement in the south have been marching north against the war lords who hold the rest of the country, among them Wu Pei-fu, Chang Tso-lin and Sun Chuan-fang, overlord of the eastern provinces.
As printed: HAS DOUBTS OF STORY TOLD BY WOMAN
ContextAimee Semple McPherson is the evangelist of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, who vanished from a Southern California beach in May and reappeared in June at Douglas, Arizona, saying she had been kidnapped and had escaped across the Mexican desert. A preliminary hearing is where a judge decides whether the evidence is enough to hold the accused for trial; Agua Prieta is the Mexican town across the line from Douglas, and Asa Keyes is the district attorney of Los Angeles County.
As printed: If Evidence is Insufficient, He Says, Govt. Had Better Prosecute Only the "Little Fellows" Hereafter.
ContextHarry M. Daugherty was Attorney General under President Harding and Thomas W. Miller the alien property custodian, the official who held property seized from enemy nationals during the World War. Emory R. Buckner is the United States Attorney in New York; Jesse Smith was Daugherty's friend from Ohio, who died in 1923, and a summation is the closing speech to the jury before it is sent out to deliberate.
As printed: Challenges Governor to Permit Interview With Stephenson.
ContextD. C. Stephenson was the Indiana Ku Klux Klan leader convicted of murder in 1925 and now serving a life sentence; Ed Jackson is governor of Indiana and John L. Duvall mayor of Indianapolis. Thomas H. Adams is a newspaper publisher pressing charges of bribery against state and city officials.
The clubs travel east tonight for the sixth game at the Yankee Stadium tomorrow, and the Cantonese have set October 10 to open the bombardment of Wuchang.