SHOOTING OF NEGROES IS APPARENTLY EXPLAINED, 1929

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New Jersey Courier on 26 Jul 1929:
SHOOTING OF NEGROES IS APPARENTLY EXPLAINED
Last week Lonnie Hammond, a South Toms River negro, created some excitement with a story of being fired at from the brush by some unknown assailant. He was found with some six buckshot in his legs. With Hammond was Willie Parker, of North Carolina.
The rest of the story seems to be told by John Hen Witzel, who said he had been missing chickens, and set a gun to guard his roost-and the gun went off. A cap belonging to one boy was found near Witzel's. The two boys are being held for attempted robbery.
Location: South Toms River, NJ, USA

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