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When lynched at San Jose, Kidnapper Holmes was naked. Kidnapper Thurmond had lost his trousers. Although the Press was unanimously outraged over the incident, few papers chose to print the photographs of the victims as a Horrible Example. Among those that did were the Oakland Post-Enquirer, Santa Cruz News and Sentinel, Los Angeles Herald & Express, Medford (Ore.) Mail-Tribune, Prescott (Ariz.) Journal-Miner, Centralia (Wash.) Chronicle, Oklahoma City News, Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, Gastonia (N. C.) Gazette, Anderson (S. C.) Independent, Johnson City (Tenn.) Staff News, Kingston (N. C.) Free Press, New York City Daily News, Mirror, American and Journal. The Los Angeles La Opinion painted shorts on Holmes, lengthened Thurmond's shirt. The Newark, N. J.. Star Eagle painted trousers on Holmes.

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