LYNCH LAW

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19117, 30 November 1933, Page 7

LYNCH LAW

NEGRO YOUTH HANGED BODY CREMATED. MOB’S GRUESOME ACT. United Press Assn,—Elec. Tel. Copyright. • NEW YORK, Nov. 28. A negro in St. Joseph, Missouri— Lloyd Warner, aged 19—who had confessed having attacked a white girl, was hanged and his body burned across the street from the oourt house to-night by a mob. The latter fought the officers of the Buchanan County gaol and National Guardsmen, and seized the negro. A tank the guards were using was attaoked by the mob and put out of commission with stones. Finally the sheriff gave the prisoner to the. mob and he was promptly hanged. Then petrol was poured over his body and set alight. As an aftermath of the disturbances in Maryland a mob invaded a cemetery there, disinterred the body of a negro who had been lynched and hacked off the head. Some of the demonstrators said they would send the head to Mr Ritchie as a souvenir. During the riot the mob continually shouted that they would never vote for Mr Ritchie again, but would vote ' for Mr Rolph if he stood for the Presidency. GOVERNOR ROLPH’S ATTITUDE, DISGRACE TO THE STATE, • v OPINION SHARPLY DIVIDED. , United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. NEW YORK, Nov. 28. The press Is divided on Mr Rolph’s statement. Some of the more sensational journals approve of it by implication, while the more conservative •while the more conservative ones denounce it heartily. The Evening Post praises the decisive action of Mr Ritchie as being “in sharp contrast to Mr Rolph’s blatant alignment of himself with men who have brought disgrace on their State.” The Herald Tribune terms .Mr Rolph’s statement as "the foolish remark of a cheap politician." It contends that ‘the example set by the fine police-work of the California authorities in solving the Hart" crime has been completely-nullified. Clerical bodies throughout the nation are making strong representations against Mr Rolph with but few exceptions, notably that of Dr Henry Darlington, peotor of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Heavenly Rest, New. York. ‘ He telegraphed to Mr Rolph congratulating him, > and • explained that he meant to commend this change from publlo indifference to a visible expression that kidnapping must be stopped. v Dr. Charles Darrow. whose brilliant legal defence of Loeb and Leopold a decade, ago for a similar offence to the Hart murder saved them from the . death penalty, commented. “I do not approve of capital punishment, which is merely legal lynching, so I can only condemn illegal ynching.” ,The editors of the Harvard University undergraduates’ newspaper Crimson praised Mr Rolph in to-day’s issue of the publication. They say: Thurmond and Holmes were too guilty to be accorded the delightful interlude called Amerioan criminal justice. The mob is side of the system that conviots 299 out of 300 law-abiding citizens for violating the motor traffic regulations and then refuses to convict 79 out of 80 acoused of murder#