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THURSDAY, OCT. 24, 188i.
WHY LYNCHING OCCUR.
Here is what makes lynchings so
frequent in North Carolina. As much
as we dislike to say it, juries too often
fail to do their duty as the public
view it. The slayer of Col. Roger J.
Page, at Marion, last July, has just
been acquitted. The State failed to
identify the person who killed Page,
we are informed, and after the jury
was out 16 hours they agreed to return
a verdict of not guilty, doubtless be
cause some of them did not want to
stay away from home longer.
