Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Something new in the history of Georgia was brought about last week when Major Brown, white, pleaded guilty as the leader of the lynching party which dragged Dave Wright, white, out of jail in August and killed him.* Eight other members of the party followed Major Brown's precedent by also pleading guilty. Thereupon, Judge Harry Reed of Douglas, Ga., sentenced Major Brown to life imprisonment and his companions to terms of from four to twenty years. Thus, Georgia had punished lynchers within 90 days of the lynching. Georgians were justly proud of Georgia justice. Meanwhile, in Aiken...
...Dave Wright was charged with murdering the sister-in-law of Major Brown...
Married. Katherine Wright, sister of Orville and the late Wilbur Wright (airplane inventors); to Henry J. Haskell, 52, associate editor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star; in Oberlin, Ohio. Married. Audrey Emery, "Diana of Cincinnati,"* daughter of the late John J. Emery; to Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch of Russia; at Biarritz, France. By the marriage she becomes Princess Anna Ilyinska, cousin-germain to Queen Marie of Rumania. Married. Patricia Andrews Herron, niece of Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who gave the bride away; to one Joseph Lancaster Brent; in Washington...
MARGARET G. WRIGHT...
...Subscriber Wright's suggestion seconded...