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Maury County, Sam Wiley, brought in a pack of bloodhounds. Choate was arrested and put in the county jail, despite Sarah Harlan saying she could not identify Choate as the perpetrator. The sheriff's wife, Mrs. Wiley, alerted the "Negro cook of the jail", Ella Gant, that a group of men were going to come and kill Choate. Gant brought him cigarettes and told him the news, and that he should pray. When the mob came, Mrs. Wiley hid the keys and told the mob she wasn't going to see "an innocent boy hung". But when a man started pounding at the jail door with a hammer, and the use of dynamite was threatened, she procured the key. The mob, some 250 men, opened the jail, got Choate out, and someone hit him with a hammer on the head, murdering him. They then tied him to a truck and dragged him through the streets, and up into the courthouse. There he was hanged, from the second story of the County
Courthouse in Columbia, which was still decorated for Armistice Day. During the lynching, Sarah Harlan's mother begged the mob to let Choate live and instead let the case go to trial.
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1999:Samuel Bierfield and Lawrence Bowman
332:Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life
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1964:Gallatin County, KY, race riot
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1970:New Orleans massacre of 1866
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2028:Colfax, LA, massacre
2011:Bear River City riot
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327:"The Law's Too Slow"
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2765:The Ox-Bow Incident
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1975:Reno Brothers Gang
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2508:Legislation
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1757:Lemuel Penn
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567:Bill Sketoe
551:Joshua Boyd
511:Before 1900
445: /
77:bludgeoning
68:Attack type
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2477:N.A.A.C.P.
2402:Red Shirts
2234:Red Summer
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1645:Felix Hall
1637:After 1940
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743:Jim Taylor
430:35°36′54″N
282:References
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167:grand jury
59:1927-11-13
2774:(musical)
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906:1900–1940
433:87°2′40″W
268:Biography
244:Tennessee
216:Billboard
42:Tennessee
2841:Vendetta
2377:Lynching
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1913:) (1844)
887:Sam Hose
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224:See also
173:Lynching
93:dragging
81:lynching
38:Columbia
34:Location
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759:Joe Coe
631:Jo Reed
381:(PhD).
339:May 23,
230:Portals
218:Hot 100
159:lynched
145:Charges
125:Mob of
89:hanging
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