Monday, Sep. 22, 1930

Pig & Holly

Fortnight ago two Negroes, Pig Lockett and Holly White, held up a white couple on the highroad near De Kalb, Miss., took from them $45. Last week feeling in De Kalb ran high against Pig and Holly. Therefore two policemen put them in an automobile, started to transfer them to Scooba, Miss, for a preliminary court hearing. Townsmen intercepted the motor, bound the policemen to trees, hanged Pig and Holly from other trees -- 14th and 15th lynchees of the year.

Last week county officials had started no legal action against the lynchers, Mississippi's Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo had issued no statement.

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