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Around 2:00 AM, a crowd of hooded individuals gathered at the jail. This group claimed to have a Black criminal from a neighboring town to trick the single jailor into opening the door. The hooded men then forced themselves into the building and threatened the jailor with a revolver. At gunpoint, the
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