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Editorial in Denton Record-Chronicle asserts no lynchings in history of Denton County
"Denton County has never had a lynching. It went through without any such trouble. But in the relatively recent year of 1897 it came very near to mutilating that good record. Only the alertness of the sheriff in secretly removing to another county…
Editorial in Denton Record Chronicle that asserts Denton County has never lynched or used mob violence
Those who have argued that lynchings and burnings and other expressions of mob violence are not a deterrent for those contemplating crimes similar to those so punished will find considerable support for their contentions in two Texas communities.…