The events leading to the death of fifty-year-old White male E. O. Hess in Drew, Mississippi, began with a violent dispute between a local sharecropper and his landlord. On December 14, 1923, a tenant farmer named Joe Pullen became involved in a confrontation with W. T. Saunders regarding a debt settlement. The argument escalated into a physical altercation, culminating in Pullen shooting Saunders. Following the shooting, Pullen fled the scene, prompting the immediate formation of a heavily arme
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