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| How Long? It is 76 days since a mob at Salisbury lynched and burned Matthew Williams while sev- i eral thousand looked on. Governor Ritchie M jfo promised the state * it would act promptly / 1^ to Punistl the lyiich- I II ers. Attorney Gen-• ^# eral Lane said he was starting an investigation at once. State's Attorney Bailey, of Wicomico County, said the same. That was 76 days ago. So far, however, nobody has been punished. No prosecutions have been started. In official quar-ters there is only silence. |