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The facts of two of these cases I will narrate - and without excuse for the horror of the details. If we are to understand the true conditions in the South, these things must be told.

One of the cases was that of Mrs. Knowles Etheleen Kimmel, twenty-five years old, wife of a farmer living near Atlanta. A 'mile beyond the end of the street-car line stands a small green bunga low-like house in a lonely spot near the edge of the pine woods. The Kimmels who lived there were not Southerners by birth but of Pennsylvania Dutch stock. They had been in the South four or five years, renting their lonesome farm, raising cotton and corn and hopefully getting a little ahead. On the day before the riot a strange rough-looking negro called at the back door of the Kimmel home. He wore a cast-off khaki soldier's uniform. He asked a foolish question and went away. Mrs. Kimmel was worried and told her husband. He, too, was worried - the fear of this crime is everywhere present in the South - and when he went away in the afternoon he asked his nearest neighbor to look out for the strange negro. When he came back a few hours later, he found fifty white men in his yard. He knew what had happened. Without being told: his wife was under medical attendance in the house. She had been able to give a clear de scription of the negro: bloodhounds were brought, but the pursuing white men had so obliterated the criminal's tracks that he could not be traced. Through information given by a negro a suspect was arrestedand nearly lynched before he could be brought to Mrs. Kimmel for identification; when she saw him she said: He is not the man. The criminal is still at large.

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