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  • Topic is exactly "Crime and Justice"

September 23, 1899

Mitchell cites an article from the Richmond Daily Dispatch to show the universal opposition to the lynching of a black robber.

November 4, 1899

Two white men are sentenced to die for the rape of a woman, and Mitchell is uplifted that "the law has had its course."

July 8, 1899

Authorities arrest a white man from a respected district and family for the sexual assault of his own daughter.

August 10, 1907

A murderer was stopped by two black men before raping a black women. The judge delays the case with “scarcely any reasonable ground.”

September 14, 1907

A white man agrees with The Planet’s stance on Taft and believes Taft has dishonorably treated the soldiers in the Brownsville case.

April 14, 1900

A young girl is “slashed” and has her “clothes on fire” by four white men because she has “Indian blood in her veins.”

September 1, 1906

A black man assaults a five year old girl, leaving her in a “precarious condition.”

February 6, 1909

Joseph White, a black man, manages to avoid verdict by appealing for a new trial.

October 28, 1899

A man who was stabbed in the neck by “Jack, the Ripper” encounters a drunk who claims to be the stabber.

March 3, 1894

A black man stands his ground as white men try to force him out of his new neighborhood.
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