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...last week a stocky, swarthy, middle-aged man ate luncheon, as was his wont, in the Coffee Shoppe of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. When he was finished he bought a cigar and a form sheet for that afternoon's horse races at Washington Park. Smoking and reading he walked toward the Illinois Central railroad station, entered the crowded pedestrian tunnel passing under Michigan Avenue. As he neared the tunnel's exit, another man stepped behind him, thrust a "belly-gun" (sawed-off revolver) close to the back of his head, fired a .38-calibre bullet through his brain...
...heard some one else talking about a telegram from Governor Moody telling Capt. Frank Hamer of the Texas Rangers to protect Negro George Hughes, but not to fire on the would-be lynchers. The court of inquiry "is convinced that this report was instigated by a person in Sherman for the purpose of stirring up the mob." The court blamed the newshawk for lack of diligence in verifying the rumor, which Associated Press and other agencies circulated widely. TIME'S story clearly stated Governor Moody's denial of any "don't shoot" telegram, a denial substantiated...
However, the case was a test of major industrial importance to clarify the Sherman Act. Many an industry using complicated machinery pools patents is uncertain if it is inside or outside the law. Recently the Oil Industry was restrained in U. S. court from pooling its "cracking" patents...
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...
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...