Governor Albert Ritchie
1931-
(Newspaper Clippings and Correspondence Relating to the Lynching of
Matthew Williams, Courthouse lawn, Salisbury, MD, December 4, 1931)
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Governor Albert Ritchie
1931-
(Newspaper Clippings and Correspondence Relating to the Lynching of
Matthew Williams, Courthouse lawn, Salisbury, MD, December 4, 1931)
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Uiuuuuw *> T>e offer to bet that nobody for the Salisbury lynching is still on the books. \9 to 1.) , AND BETCHA that the Salisbury officials won't go through with that fool plan to summon Henry Mencken and other newspaper writers as witnesses in the investigation—if there is an investigation. (21 to 1.) BETCHA there will be a row yet, before the City Council passes the new Sunday blue law ordinance. (26 to 1.) """BETCHA that, if Governor Ritchie is asked to commute young Duker's sentence from hanging to life imprisonment he won't do it. (2 to 1.) _________ -_.***••>- *¦¦