Again, in Texas

Fortnight ago, Texas's Governor Dan Moody regretfully told a London newsman, interviewing him over the trans-Atlantic telephone, how mobbers at Sherman had killed Convict George Hughes, 41, Negro, how they had dragged his body about town, strung it from a tree, doused it in gasoline, burned it as a warning in the Negro quarter.

Exclaimed the newsman: "Well, well! Is this a common occurrence in Texas?"

Replied Governor Moody: "No." (TIME, May 19).

Last week at Honey Grove, 50 mi. east of Sherman, mobbers helped a posse find and shoot to death one George Johnson. 30, Negro murderer of a white man, to whom he had owed money. The mobbers dragged Johnson's body about town, strung it from a tree, doused it in gasoline, burned it as a warning in the Negro quarter.

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