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The Red Record - Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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Philadelphia girl, beautiful and well educated, and of good family, should
make a confession published in all the daily papers of that city October,
1894, that she had been stealing for some time, and that to cover one of
her thefts, she had said she had been bound and gagged in her father's
house by a colored man, and money stolen therefrom by him. Had this been
done in many localities, it would only have been necessary for her to
"identify" the first Negro in that vicinity, to have brought about another
lynching bee.


A VILE SLANDER WITH SCANT RETRACTION

The following published in the _Cleveland (Ohio) Leader_ of Oct. 23, 1894,
only emphasizes our demand that a fair trial shall be given those accused
of crime, and the protection of the law be extended until time for a
defense be granted.

The sensational story sent out last night from Hicksville that a Negro
had outraged a little four-year-old girl proves to be a base canard. The
correspondents who went into the details should have taken the pains to
investigate, and the officials should have known more of the matter
before they gave out such grossly exaggerated information.

The Negro, Charles O'Neil, had been working for a couple of women and,
it seems, had worked all winter without being remunerated. There is a
little girl, and the girl's mother and grandmother evidently started the
story with idea of frightening the Negro out of the country and thus
balancing accounts. The town was considerably wrought up and for a time
things looked serious. The accused had a preliminary hearing today and
not an iota of evidence was produced to indicate that such a crime had
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