WARRANTS ISSUED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26473, 29 May 1947, Page 7

WARRANTS ISSUED

KIDNAPPING OF NEGRO CHARGE AGAINST WHITE MAN Rec' 11 p.m. NEW YORK, May 27. Warrants have been issued charging four white men with kidnapping Godwin Bush, a negro, from the gaol at Northampton, Jackson, North Carolina, on May 23. Earlier the FBI announced that it had obtained a confession from one of the mob who took Bush from the Northampton gaol in an apparent attempt to lynch him. The FBI said the confession implicated seven other whites. , , , The Justice Department had examined the case but decided that no violation of the Federal law was involved Accordingly, the confession and other facts have been turned over to the North Carolina State. Bush was taken by masked men from gaol where he was held on a charge of trying to assault a white woman. He escaped from the mob and surrendered to the FBI. Senators Wagner (Democrat, New York), and Morse (Republican, Oregon) introduced a Bill in the Senate providing heavy fines and imprisonment for lynchings, and fines for law officials who failed to exert “diligent efforts” in the arrest and prosecution of lynchers. The measure also provides for a payment to victims of lynchings or their families.

PROMPT RELEASE ON BAIL Rec. 0.30 a.m. NEW YORK, May 28. Seven men surrendered to-night on the charges of kidnapping Bush. They were immediately released on bail. The police chief. Frank Outland. refused to reveal the men’s names, stating that they had asked him to withhold the information because it would stir up the negro population. He added: “I have to live with these men.”