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The Evening Statesman Domestic News February 10, 1908
Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington
Cautionary note: Racist era language and graphic lynching violence
What is this article about?
Eli Pigot, a Black man who confessed to assaulting a white girl, was lynched by a mob in Brookhaven, Mississippi, after the mob swept aside militia.
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Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 98.89% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 99.63% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 95.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 90.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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BRUSHING MILITIA ASIDE, MOB HANGS NEGRO FIEND
MEMPHIS, Feb. 10.—Eli Pigot, a negro, was lynched at Brookhaven, Miss., the morning. He had confessed to assaulting Nellie Williams, a white girl of 18 years of age. He was brought to Brookhaven for trial and the local militia was ordered out to guard him. When the train arrived the girl's father crowded close to the car to get a look at him when he was knocked down by soldiers.
A mob swept the militia to one side, dragged the negro from the car and hanged him to the nearest telegraph pole.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 10.—Eli Pigot, a negro, was lynched at Brookhaven, Miss., the morning. He had confessed to assaulting Nellie Williams, a white girl of 18 years of age. He was brought to Brookhaven for trial and the local militia was ordered out to guard him. When the train arrived the girl's father crowded close to the car to get a look at him when he was knocked down by soldiers.
A mob swept the militia to one side, dragged the negro from the car and hanged him to the nearest telegraph pole.
What sub-type of article is it?
Crime
Riot Or Protest
Death Or Funeral
What keywords are associated?
Lynching
Eli Pigot
Brookhaven Mississippi
Mob Violence
What entities or persons were involved?
Eli Pigot
Nellie Williams
Where did it happen?
Brookhaven, Mississippi
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi
Event Date
Feb. 10
Key Persons
Eli Pigot
Nellie Williams
Outcome
eli pigot hanged by mob; girl's father knocked down by soldiers.