BURNED ALIVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 283, 30 November 1933, Page 7

BURNED ALIVE.

MOBS RUN AMOK. WAVE OF LYNCHING. Revolting Atrocities in America. NEGRO'S AWFUL DEATH. e (United r.A.—Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Received 12.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 29. A negro in St. Joseph, Missouri | Lloyd Warner, aged 19—who had confessed to having attacked a white girl, was hanged and his body burned across the street from the courthouse last night by a mob. The latter fought the officers of the Buchanan County gaol and National Guardsmen, and seized the negro. A tank the guards were using was attacked by tlic mob and put out of commission with stones. Finally the sheriff pave the prisoner to the mob and he was promptly hanged. Then petrol was poured over his body and set alight. The feeling over the lynehings continued unabated to-day, in tact it was increased as a result of the Missouri affair, in which it was later revealed that the negro was literally burned alive and not hung, while madly laughing. A woman shouted encouragement to the lynchers. Sheriff's Action Explained. The sheriff explained that he turned the prisoner over to the mob for fear of 10 other negroes and CO white men in the gaol being almost subjected to mob hysteria and an innocent prisoner might have been killed.

Governor Park, of Missouri, announced that lie would make a thorough investigation. "There is no justification for i the lynching, which is a dangerous blow to our constitution, our laws and to civilisation. 1 want the mob leaders prosecuted." Habeas corpus proceedings have resulted in the return of the four prisoners who formed the cause of the Maryland see lie, where people have started a boycott against Baltimore goods as a protest against Governor Ritchie's action. The latter, in a formal statement today, declared: "It was my plain duty, as' Governor of Maryland, to see that the law is supreme, and it was only when tho local officials failed to perform their duties that I acted." In Kansas a white prisoner, who yesterday killed a negro gaoler in an attempt to escape, had to be spirited away from the county gaol to the State penitentiary in order to save liim from the threats of the mob. Something of the psychological condition brought about everywhere by the aroused public is reflected, incidentally, in a comparison, made to-day by a New York Catholic prelate in attacking Father Couglilin's speech on the money policy, between those who listened to him and a "lynching mob." showing how the lynching incidents have stirred up all minds. Dead Body Mutilated. As an aftermath of the disturbances in Maryland, where troops were ordered to arrest alleged lynchers, a mob invaded a cemetery there, disinterred the body of a negro who had been lynched and hacked off tho head. Some of the demonstrators said they would send the head to Mr. Ritchie, the Governor who ordered out tho guard, as a souvenir.

During the riot the mob continually shouted that they would never vote for Mr. Ritchie again, but would vote for Mr. Kolpli, Governor of California, who refused to stop :i lynching, if he stood for the Presidency.

The editors of the Harvard University undergraduates' newspaper "Crimson" praised Mr. Rolph in yesterday's issue of the publication. They say: Thurmond and Holmes (who were lynched) were too guilty to be accorded the delightful interlude called American criminal justice. The mob is sick of the system that convicts 209 out of .'IOO law-abiding citizens for violating the motor traffic regulations and then refuses to convict 79 out of 80 accused of murder.

GANGSTER OUTRAGE. WOMEN'S BODIES FOUND. (Received 2.30 p.m.) DOWNING TOWN (Pa.), November 29. Another gruesome gangster killing, comparable to the Saint Valentine Day massacre in Chicagtf on February 14, 1929, was disclosed by the discovery hero of the bodies of two women in a foot-deep grave. They have been missing since, with two notorious gangster male* companions, they were taken "for a ride" on November 1. While the men's bodies were discovered nearly immediately after the crime, the women's remained hidden until to-day when a farmer found them buried in a cornfield.