LYNCHINGS IN AMERICA

Evening Star, Issue 21582, 30 November 1933, Page 11

LYNCHINGS IN AMERICA

FEELING STILL RUNNING HIGH INCREASED BY MISSOURI AFFAIR prMi Association—By Telegraph— Copyright, NEW YORK, November 29. (Received November 30, at J. 2.50 p.m.) The feeling over the lynchings continued unabated to-day, in fact, it increased as the result of the Missouri affair, in which it is now revealed that the negro was literally burnt alive and not hanged, 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 killed. Governor Park, of Missouri, announced that there would bo a thorough investigation. “ There was no justification for the affair,” he said. “ Lynching is a dangerous blow to our constitution, and to law and civilisation. I want the mob leaders prosecuted.” Habeas corpus proceedings resulted in the return of four prisoners to the Maryland lynching scene, where the people have started a boycott against Baltimore goods as a protest against Governor Ritchie's action. The latter, in a formal statement to-day, declared; “ It is my plain duty as Governor of Maryland to see that. the law is supreme, and it was only when the local officials failed to perform their duties that I acted.” In Kansas a whito 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.