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George Hughes was held in a courthouse vault at Sherman, Texas when a mob burned the courthouse, took his body and publicly mutilated it, according to the May 11 dispatch. This establishes racial mob violence against a person in state custody. The reviewed article does not establish the original arrest day or a measured completed confinement. Daily Worker, May 12, 1930, page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v06-n368-NY-may-12-1930-DW-LOC.pdf
Page 1's Cyril Briggs anti-lynching editorial recalls Hughes burned while confined in Sherman, Texas, and alleges official complicity by the Rangers and Governor Moody. The attribution supplements the existing courthouse-vault case without changing the original arrest or calculating a full term. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v07-n221-NAT-sep-13-1930-DW-LOC.pdf
