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Allen D. Candler

In an incident which culminated with the notorious lynching of Sam Hose in 1899, he berated the "better class" of blacks for not aiding authorities in his apprehension.

Corra May Harris

After the lynching of Thomas Wilkes, alias Sam Hose, near Newnan, Georgia, William Hayes Ward, editor-in-chief at the Independent, published an editorial denouncing the act.

Rebecca Latimer Felton

In 1899, a massive crowd of white Georgians tortured, mutilated, and burned a black man, Sam Hose, who purportedly had killed a white man in self-defense but had not committed the rape of the white woman whites accused him of.

Sam Hose

Historian Leon Litwack states in his essay "Hellhounds", however, that during an investigation by a white detective that was separate to the Wells-organised investigation, Cranford's wife revealed that Hose had never entered the house and had acted in self-defence.

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