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Williams was taken to the Peninsula General Hospital, where a mob of more than 2,000 gathered that night. Policemen stopped the mob at the main entrance, but six of the mobmen entered a side door, dragged the negro from his bed and took him to the courthouse green, where they hanged him to a tree.
Witnesses Are Listed.
The list of witnesses summoned follows:
G. Murray Phillips, sheriff.
Charles K, Pruitt and Donald A. Parks, deputy sheriff.
Sergt. M. D. Brubaker and Patrolman J. C. Peroutka, State police.
Miss Helen V. Wise, superintendent, Peninsula General Hospital, and Miss Florence S. Smith, Miss Helen E. Fisher, Miss Myrtle Wright and Miss Robinson, nurses.
Dr. R. M. Nook, Dr. J. McFad-den Dick, Dr. Creston Collins, Dr. S. H. .Hurdle, Dr. Hunter R. Mann, James Handy, Leah Brewington and John Easton, attaches at the hospital.
Chief of Police N. H. Holland
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