Nashville, N.C., Nov. 12—Believing that Lee Washington, negro charged with attacking a white woman between Nashville and Spring Hope, was lodged within, a mob of men assembled in front of the Nash county jail Friday night, but when Deputy Sheriff Griffin escorted leaders of the mob through the jail to support a statement he already had made that the negro was being held elsewhere, the crowd dispersed.
A brother of Lee Washington, was being held in the jail as a suspected accomplice in the alleged crime, but he was not molested. Lee was removed for safe keeping the deputy sheriff stated, but he declined to divulge the negro’s whereabouts.
From the front page of The Reidsville Review, Nov. 12, 1923
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