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 EAST SHORE NEWS
 PENTWATER, OCEANA Co., MICH.
 VOL. I, NO. 26
 Friday, 14 July 1871

        MARTIN MERA, aged forty-four years, a resident of Iroquois County,
     Ill., was taken from the jail at Watseka, on the night of the 5th, and
     hung on a tree west of Sugar Creek, by a mob of 250 men, with men,
     women and children following - amounting, in the aggregate, to 1,000
     persons.  MERA was charged with burning his son, a lad of eleven
     years, on the stove, till the skin came off his feet and body, and
     then whipping him to death and burying him in his garden.

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