GIRLS AT A LYNCHING.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1410, 26 June 1923, Page 3

GIRLS AT A LYNCHING.

FIFTY MOTOR CARS AT NEGRO'S MURDER. The city of Columbia. Missouri, was recently the scene of a lynching' which was watched by huge crowds, including many students of the university, who cheered loudly as a negro, James T. Scott, was hanged from a railway bridge (says the New York correspondent of the London Daily Mail), The negro was identified by Regina Aims ted t. the 14 year old daughter of one of the university professors, as a man who tried to attack her near the railway bridge. Scott had been employed as a janitor at the university. Shortly before midnight 30 men and youths, brandishing ropes and pistols, stormed the local gaol. In a few minutes a vast crowd, consisting of students and others, including many girls, gathered, vociferously applauding the efforts of the lynchers, who broke open the outer door of the prison and applied an acetylene torch to the door of the cell where Scott was confined. The mob dragged the negro into the streets and thousands formed a procession, in which were about 50 motor cars filled with women. Students Were heard chorusing; *‘The same old moon shines down on you.’’ Professor Almstedt appealed to the mob not to interfere with the course of justice, but was howled down and threatened with violence. Scott, bareheaded, with his clothes torn, shouted continuously that he was innocent. His pleas were answered with cries of derision. A youth holding a noose round the negro’s neck was thrust aside by a man, who then pushed Scott from the bridge amid the frantic cheers of the multitude. The president of the University of Missouri issued a statement declaring that none of the students participated in the lynching.