For those interested, this photo can be seen at
http://www.mnhs.org/market/mhspress/products/087351386X_ph5.html
as well as excerpts from a Mn Historical Society book about it at
http://www.mnhs.org/market/mhspress/products/087351386X_excerpt.html
Note: Minneapolis relevance: Col. George Leach, who the next year would be
elected as a conservative mayor of Minneapolis, advised Beecher that city
officials must first formally request assistance before the National Guard
could step in, and so declined to send any troops to assist the Duluth police.
A whole set of 6 dozen or so souvenir postcards of various lynchings is
online at
http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary/
Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson
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