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The Planet criticizes the take of fellow paper, the Richmond Dispatch, on the Lunenburg Case, by picking apart their article claim by claim.

A Judge declares that three women who were wrongly accused of murder are not to be delivered to the Sheriff in Lunenburg County.

A young African American girl is raped by a white man and her relatives turn him over to the authorities.

A white man who had hired a black man as his assistant is “given a brutal beating” by a mob of white men.

A white man who had hired a black man as his assistant is “given a brutal beating” by a mob of white men.

A gun misfires as the result of an accident, or perhaps a lovers’ quarrel, and leaves a teenage girl dead.

Paul Davis, a black man, is acquitted of the alleged crime of raping a girl under the age of consent.

The Supreme Court of Appeals reverses the decision of the Circuit Court to decline to grant a writ of error and a new trial to three women who were wrongly accused of murder.

The Planet describes a rape incident involving an educated white man, and proves to the Dispatch that “crime is not confined to any one race of people.”

A white man is arrested after he assaults a woman, and Mitchell calls for the “Richmond Dispatch and journals of its ilk to condemn the crime.”