Word: tumbleton
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...jail. Going straight to the bullpen occupied by six cowering blackamoors, they broke into it with a crowbar. From it they dragged strapping 18-year-old Wes Johnson, itinerant Henry County farm laborer, who had been arrested day before for raping the young wife of a farmer at Tumbleton, 22 mi. away...
With Negro Johnson in tow the mob stomped out, drove off toward Tumbleton in 25 automobiles. After day broke City Editor Joseph David ("Red") Brown of the Dothan Eagle received a telephone tip that Negro Johnson's body could be found near the Tumbleton farm home of Rupert Bond in which the alleged attack had taken place. Editor Brown grabbed his camera and dashed off for Tumbleton. There on the brink of a sparsely wooded ravine, 50 yd. from Farmer Bond's house, he found the bullet-riddled body of Negro Johnson. Tight-lipped farmers, who seemed...
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