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Title: Braved Storm Afoot To Stop A Hanging-Parts I and II
Author: Uncle Ben
Source: Main Line Chronicle
Date: 3/10/1976
Folder/Item #: Black History on the Main Line (1) to 1999; 0
Notes:
Abstract: Story of the Blizzard of 1888 and Constable Thomas F. Dalton, who trudged through the deep snow and raging wind to save the life of a condemned man, Samuel Johnson, about to be unjustly hanged for murder