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"Meridian, Miss,, 7-25-192l-Frank Atkinson and Clyde Greer
paid with their lives by hanging for murder last June of
Re H, Bryant. Bryant's body found riddled with bullets
near here after disappearing from home in their company,
Was first time white man legally hanged in Lauderdale Co,
and their only instance where two white men hanged from
same scaffold in Mississippi. Went without show of emo-
tion or nervéusness, walking unassisted from eell to sca-
folled in county jail, Trap sprung at 23:17, Atkinson dead
at, 2:28 and Greer at 2:30, Both necks broken, Protested
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