RACES: At Ringgold

A mile out of Ringgold, La., a young Negro last week marched an elderly bank cashier and his wife along the railroad track in their night clothes. When he attempted to rape the woman, the husband fought him off, was pounded to death with a pistol butt.

Promptly captured, Nelson Nash, 24, confessed the crime, started to lead police to the scene, when a white mob scooped him out of the hands of the Law. At the end of a rope Nelson Nash rose in the air while 50 bullets peppered his wriggling black body. Wet wood was all that prevented the lynchers of Nelson Nash from burning him at the stake.