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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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In Loomsboro, GA, a posse lynched Negro farm worker George Hill after he shot white farm owner Sam Gilbert and killed his wife, then burned his property. Hill resisted arrest and was killed in a wooded area; no racial motive per sheriff. A posseman was wounded.
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A mob formed a posse tracked down and lynched Negro farm worker George Hill, who shot the white man and killed the white woman, actually wounding her face last Friday.
The lynched man was George Hill, a tenant on the farm of Sam Gilbert, white, who was shot and his wife killed.
According to Sheriff George Hatcher there was no racial ill will involved in the affair. He said that the posse, led by unidentified officers shot and killed Hill when he allegedly resisted arrest by firing on the possemen.
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no reason for the husband's actions according to the Sheriff. She was quoted as saying Hill shot the white man in the front yard of the Hill tenant house and then fired at the white woman who was seated in the couple's car. Hill then allegedly set fire to his own house his barn and
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The sheriff said he acted on information from members of the posse from the vacant house and finally ran into a wooded patch where he was shot.
Juke Hill cousin of the slain man was credited with firing the shot which dropped George Hill but it also hit a posseman.
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The sheriff said he acted on information from members of the posse from the vacant house and finally ran into a wooded patch where he was shot.
Juke Hill cousin of the slain man was credited with firing the shot which dropped George Hill but it also hit a posseman.
The wounded white man was in critical condition
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hospital.
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Loomsboro, Ga
Event Date
Last Friday
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George Hill, a Negro farm worker and tenant on Sam Gilbert's farm, shot and wounded Gilbert and killed his wife, then set fire to his own house and barn before fleeing. A posse tracked him down, and during resistance, he was shot and killed by Juke Hill, his cousin, who also wounded a posseman. The sheriff stated no racial motive was involved.