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Barber Brothers "Series"

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THE BARBER BOYS LYNCHED.

 
Dubuque, Iowa, June 8. --- At 11 o'clock tonight word comes that a mob at Waverly is attacking the jail with crowbars, picks, and all kinds of weapons trying to effect an entrance. If the mob gets hold of the Barber brothers they will be strung up at short notice.

LATER.

Dubuque, Iowa, June 9. --- The Herald's special says the mob took the Barbers from the jail at 11:30 P. M. and hanged them to a tree. The murderers  never flinched.

 
~source: The New Your Times, June 9, 1883
   
     

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