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...Warren Club: R. Brooke Alloway, Columbus, Ohio; Francis K. Buckley, Portland, Maine; Charles A. Hastings, Garner, Iowa; William S. Hyde New Castle, Pennsylvania, James H. Keet, Jr., Springfield, Missouri; and Mark E. True, Council Bluffs, Iowa, For the Holmes Club: Horace B. Bent, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Ward B. Coe, Riderwood, Maryland; William H. Morris, Rochester, New York; Horace G. Nebeker, Ogden, Utah; Thomas J. Miller, Verona, new Jersey, and James A. Moore, California, Maryland...
...Jersey is not famed as a Negro-hating state but the population (700) of Alloway, N. J., is pure white and proud of it. Last week Allowayans felt thoroughly satisfied when a jury convicted their townswoman, Mrs. Lillian Fleming, of "atrocious assault and battery...
...months ago Mrs. Fleming, with her sister and brother-in-law, moved into the trim white house next to Alloway's town hall. Soon word went around that the newcomers were not pure white. Righteous citizens gathered in front of the house, yelled imprecations, threw stones wrapped in paper saying "Get out!" Children tagged after Mrs. Fleming jeering, "Nigger woman! Nigger woman...
...night the village fife & drum corps, after band practice, stopped in front of the Fleming house to bedevil its occupants. Lewis Collier, Alloway's postmaster and band leader, vainly tried to quell his bandsmen. Out of the house stormed Mrs. Fleming. "I've had enough of this!" she screamed. Drawing a gun from her bosom she shot Postmaster Collier through the chest...