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Arm Was Broken Jim West Saved His Neck in Shelbyville Lynching, But Was Hurt in Fall Shelbyville, Ky., Feb. 1–Private detectives who have been at work in Shelbyville for weeks are said to have discovered a mass of evidence as to the operation of…

Body of One Mob Victim Missing in Shelbyville Jim West is Not Thought to Have Escaped– Best Citizens of the Town Insist That Courts Investigate the Lynching of Sunday in Which Three Met Death at Hands of Twenty Armed and Masked Men– All Were Negroes…