LYNCHING MANIA

Southland Times, Issue 22187, 1 December 1933, Page 7

LYNCHING MANIA

STRONG FEELING NEGRO HANDED OVER TO MOB MISSOURI AFFAIR (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) New York, November 28. Feeling over the lynchings continued unabated to-day; in fact it had increased as a result of the Missouri affair in which it is now revealed that a negro was literally burned alive, not hanged, while a madly laughing woman shouted encouragement to the lynchers. The Sheriff explained that he had turned the prisoner over to the mob for fear that ten other negroes and 60 white men in the 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 justification for the affair,” he said. “The lynching was a dangerous blow to our constitution, law and civilization. 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 an informal 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 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.