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A white man rapes a 10 year old girl, and is apprehended by police, while the black community refuses to lynch him.

A group of white men voice their opinions regarding the lynchings in Virginia.

An entire town lynches a white man guilty of killing his white neighbor over a property dispute.

Many angered, cattle-men presumably lynch J. L. Chandler, a white man, “as a warning to others.” Concerning the disputed between farmers and cattle-men.

“For the first time in fifty years” an African American mob lynches a white man, who assaulted a “colored” woman.

In a surprise twist, a constable actually manages to thwart a white mob’s attempts to lynch an African American man, on trial for assault.

A white mob burns at the stake an African American man guilty of assaulting “a well-known and respectable white woman.”

White boys of the East-End of Richmond “take the matter at once in hand and lynch” a 12-year-old boy.

A “mob of 1,500” hangs a black “slayer of four men” and his white accomplice.

Lynching and murder are contrasted, for lynchers “have laughed to scorn all efforts to punish them,” while murderers are more desperate to avoid punishment.