MOB ATTACK GAOL

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1925, Page 5

MOB ATTACK GAOL

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TEXAN LAWLESSNESS.

(/♦uetulian and NZ, Cable Association ' » ■ - , j I ‘ NEW YORK, May 22. A case qf attempted lynching is reported from Texas. . ’ Frak and- Lorenzo Noeli negro brothers, confessed that. they killed Ryan Atkins and assaulted his woman companion. . . A mob of five thousand stormed the gaol gates, thirty shots being exchanged. One man was killed. Seventy-five police and firemen armed with machine guns, shot guns, tear bombs and a fire hose finally dispersed the attackers. KILLING NO MURDER. ’ ; “UNWRITTEN LAW” PREVAILS 1 NEW YORK, May 22. A new form of the “unwritten law” was invoked wherf Lucille Waunch explained that she shot her father and Hemnenek, because the boldness of the latter living with her father caused her temporarily to lose control of herself. . ’ She stated that she intended only to scare Hemnenek, and dfd not realise that the revolver was loaded. The Coroner’s jury exonerated her.

Lucille Waunch, the fifteen-year-old daughter of : a wealthy Chicago resident, found her father living with .Miss Hemnenek. Charging the latter with breaking, up their‘home, she shot and seriously wounded Miss Hemnenek and then shot 1 her father dead. Mrs.' Waunch, who attempted to intervent between her frenzied daughter and the victims, was also wounded.