MINDEN, La.-The body of a 28-year-old Negro who "carried pictures of nude white women" was found beaten to death on the dam of a small lake near here last Friday, and deputy coroner Thomas Richardson today described the killing as a lynching.
The Negro was John C. Jones, oil refinery worker who had been released from jail the day before, after a white woman who complained he tried to enter her home did not file formal charges.
Jones' body was marked with slashes and bruises, which Richardson said apparently had been inflicted with a flat object, such as a wide leather belt or a thick plank.
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