BURNED ALIVE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 58, 1 December 1933, Page 11

BURNED ALIVE

Victim of the Missouri Lynching FEELING RUNNING HIGH By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, November 29. The feeling over the recent lynchings continued unabated to-day, and in fact was increased as the result of the Missouri affair, in which it is now revealed that the negro was literally burned alive, not hung, while a madly laughing woman shouted encouragement to the lynchers. > The sheriff explained that he turned the prisoner over to the mob for fear that ten other negroes and sixty white men in gaol might also be subjected to mob hysteria and innocent prisoners might be killed. Governor Park, of Missouri, announced that there would.be a thorough investigation. “There" is no justification for the affair,” he said. “Ljnching is a dangerous blow to our Constitution, law, and civilisation. I want the mob leaders prosecuted.” Habeas corpus proceedings have resulted in the return of the four prisoners to the Maryland lynching scene, where people have started a boycott against Baltimore goods as a protest against Governor Ritchie's action. The Governor in a formal statement to-day said: “It is my plain duty as Governor of Maryland, to see that the law is supreme, and it was only when 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 a wav from the county gaol to the State pejiitentiary in order to save him from the threats of the mob.

Something of a psychological condition brought about by the aroused public everywhere is reflected incidentally in the comparison made to-day by a New York Catholic prelate in attacking Father Coughlin’s money speech between those who listened to him and the “lynching mob.” showing how lynching incidents have stirred up all minds.