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“A Negro Hung in Atchison.” - - On Friday evening last Mr. Patrick Cox, who lives near Atchison, Kansas, was shot and mortally wounded by a negro who was subsequently arrested and confessed the deed. The circumstances attending the shooting were sufficient to warrant the belief that the negro, named George Johnson, had waylaid the road for another man who, the negro was cognizant of, had just received a considerable amount of money, and would pass that road on his way home. Mr. Cox passing first, fell the victim. After he had fallen from his horse the negro came up to the wounded man and then turned and fled. On last Tuesday flight a party of 40 men, Irishmen it is said, forcibly took the wretch from the jail and hung him to a bridge.Date(s) of Creation
1/7/1870
