Word: cypress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murderers ransacked the house, finally went away. All night she lay there, afraid they would come back. In the morning she was discovered, finally rescued by the Stockton Volunteer Fire Department. While Sheriff J. William Hall investigated, groups of enraged men started scouring Worcester County, searching Negro shacks, barns, cypress swamps...
...suspect was a Negro named Arthur Collick. Two days later two civilian possemen spotted him emerging from a swamp. With him were two women. The posse caught the women, but Collick escaped, plunging back into the cypress growth. The prisoners were Lillian Blake, Collick's common-law wife, and her 14-year-old daughter Martha. The two were taken to the county jail at Snow Hill, locked...
...waitresses in the Business School dining halls by an equal number of student waiters and to lay off other waitresses and kitchen help as an economy move were bitterly attacked at a joint meeting of the Waitresses' Union, local 112 and the Cooks and Pastry Cooks, local 186 in Cypress Hall last night...