SHOCKING LYNCHINGS IN U.S.
I PROSECUTOR DEFENDS j MOB ACTION j CAMP FOREMAN HANGED ANDj BURNED I (Received November 14, 7.5 p.m.) j NEW YORK, November 13. j Two shocking lynchings were re-: ported to-day from the South. In, one case a statement by the prosecuting attorney reflects the some- ; times strange attitude to the law of American officials, who are sworn ( to carry it out. i A mob of 700 at Columbus. Texas.; took from peace officers and hanged j two negro youths aged 15 and 1(5. | who were said to have confessed j that they criminally attacked, and j later drowned a young white woman. The county attorney, commenting, said: "I do not call the citizens who executed the negroes a mob. I consider their action was an expression of the will of the people. The youths, under the law, could not have received the death penalty, because of their ages." From Ripley, West Virginia, comes news of the hanging and j burning of the 55-year-old foremanj of a civilian conservation camp "by : a person or persons unknown." Doctors said the body was set on fire while still alive.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21631, 15 November 1935, Page 13
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