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Undated newspaper article describing an Arkansas lynching. A GHASTLY FIND. A Mullato Woman Reported Found Suspended From a Tree She Had Evidently Been Dead Several Days --- Great Excitement Among Colored People _______________ Accross Her Breast Was a Fixcard Notifying the Public That Any One Cutting Her Down Would Share the Same Fate - No Further Particulars. The colored population of Little Rock was greatly exercised yester- day afternoon over the reported ghastly discovery made by several of their race in returning from Marche yesterday. About half way between between this city and Marche they found the decayed body of a mulatto woman probably about 30 years of age suspended from a limb of a tree. On the breast of the corpse was a placard bearing the inscription: "If anybody cuts this body down they will share the same fate." Several parties reported finding the body. The woman is supposed to have been lynched, but when, by whom and for what reason no one is able to state. The body appeares to have been dead several days. Deputy Sheriff Heard was seen but said he had not even heard anything about it.

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University of Arkansas