LYNCH LAW AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 131, 30 November 1933, Page 13

LYNCH LAW AGAIN

MOB ACTS IN MISSOURI

NEGRO YOUTH THE VICTIM

UGLY INCIDENTS

United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YOKE, November '29. St. Joseph, Missouri, is apparently taking to heart' Governor Eolph's comments on lynching. A mob tonight stormed the local gaol, took Lloyd "Warner, a 19-year-olcl negro ■ youth charged with attacking a -white woman, and hanged him to a nearby tree. Early in the evening tho State Governor, Mr. Parks, called out tho militia, but they were slow in mobilising. . A Government tank they were using was attacked by the mob and put out of commission by stones. Finally the sheriff gave the prisoner to the,mob, who promptly hanged him. They then poured petrol on the body and burned it; The editors of the Harvard University undergraduate newspaper, '' Crimson," praised Governor Rolph in a leader today. The article declared: — •'Thurmond and Holmes were too guilty to be accorded the delightful interlude called American criminal justice.' The mob is sick-of a system that convicts 299 out of 300 law-abiding citizens for violating the automobile traffic regulations and then refuses to convict 79 out of 80 persons accused of mux'der." As an aftermath to the disturbances in Maryland a mob invaded the cemetery, disinterred the body of tho negro lynching victim, and hacked ofE the head. Some members of the mob saicl they would ship the-head to Governor Ritchie as a •'souvenir." During the riots the mob continually shouted that they would never vote i'or Governor Eitchie again, but. would vote for Governor jKolph if he ran for the Presidency.