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The Pardon Board grants parole to W. L. Taylor, the son of True Reformer Reverend Dr. Wm. L. Taylor, shortening his sentence for “feloniously assaulting” a train conductor.

A white man shoots a homeless black man, and the black man is arrested after asking for food at a farm house.

The yard-conductor at Byrd Street Station allegedly stole multiple pairs of shoes. The Planet compares his punishments for stealing with that of a black man.

A white man sleeps with a black woman who then kills her husband after an altercation; the white man was found not guilty in court and walked away a free man.

Landlord discovers dismembered body of tenant, Mrs. May Hazelton, stuffed inside of trunk.

Doctor Charles B. Smith was nearly blinded by a patient who threw acid in his face.

The body of William Rice, “a highly respected” black man, is found in Lawrenceville, Virginia. Evidence points to a white mob who “engaged in an altercation of some kind” with Rice on the night he was murdered.

A Presbytery in Delaware calls a minister to trial after his sermon may have instigated a lynching.

The innocence of the women in the Lunenburg trials is reiterated in an opinion piece by the Planet.

The history and rationale of Solomon Marable, whose accusations had originally placed suspicion on the Lunenburg Prisoners, is told to a court.