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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