FEELING INCREASES

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

FEELING INCREASES

NEGRO BURNT ALIVE

GOVERNORS' STATEMENTS

(Received November 30, 1 p.m.) NEW YOEK, November 29

The feeling over the recent, lynchmgs continued unabated today, and in fact Sras 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 ho 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 ;justifieation for the affair/ ho said. "Lynching 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 Bi,tehie''s' action. The-Governor in a formal statement today said:,"lt 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 away from the county gaol to the State penitentiary 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 today by the New York Catholie1 Prelate in attacking Father Coughlin's money speech between those who listened to Mm and the- "lynching /mob," showing how lynching incidents have stirred up all minds.