LYNCH LAW.
THE UUO KECOlill
Fifty-lour person;, were lynched in the United States in 15)10/ according to records of r i uskegee Institute. Fifty of the victims, were negroes., and four white persons l ,- and included in the record are three negro women. Sixty-seven persons were- lynched in 11) l ~) f thirteen of whom were white men. In tTie statement presemting' the fc port, Robert It Moton, president of the Institute, said: ‘■Fourteen, or more than one-fourth of the total lynehings, occurred in Urn State of Georgia. Of those put to death, forty-two, or 77 per cent, of the total, were charged with offences other than assault. The charges t‘oi which whites were lynched were: Murder, three; suspected of cutting a woman, one (this a Mexican). “The charges for which negroes were put to*death were: Attempted assault, nine; killing officers of the law, ten; murder, seven; ho<r stealing and assisting another person to escape, six; wounding officers of the la\r, font , assault, three; insult, two. For each of the ’ following offences one person was put to death: Slapping ' boy; robbing store: brushing against girl on streets; assisting sou, accused ot assault, to escape; entering a kou.se for robbery or some other_ purpose; defending her son, who, in defence of his mother, killed a man; fatally wounding a man with whom he had quarrelled; speaking against a mob in act of putting a man to death*, attacking a man and wife with club.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 March 1917, Page 2
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