JUDGE LYNCH IN AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 146, 15 March 1919, Page 11

JUDGE LYNCH IN AMERICA

——— ~ , •'•'■-BIS-RECORD FOR 1918. •: According- to the- rccortls compiled by. ■.Monroe! N. Work, in chargo of records and research of- the Tuskegoe Institute; tharo, we're-G2 lynching:, in.'1918.; This is 21. more than the number . (38). for the :.vear; 1917. . Of- those lynched, ■58 .were negroes .and 4 were whites. - Fivo of those put to 'death -were- women. Six-teen;-or a little-moto than one-fourth of .those put la death were charged with rape-or-attempted-lape'.- The offences, ■charge against the whites, lynched were: Jlui'dtr, 2 ; being disloyal, x 2.''

The offences, .charged against the negroes were: Alleged complicity in ■murder, ll:murder, 7charged : with threats to kill, fi; charged-.with rape, 10; charged' with attempted, rape,-6; alleged participation in light-about-alleged hog.steak ing, S; killing oflicer of the.law, -2; being intiniate -with -woman,: 1;- assisting man charged with murder to escape, •1; robbing, house, and frightening women, 1; ■killing, man ;in dispute about automobile •repniht,--'lj making unwise remarks, 1; makitii? unruly, remarks,,!; killing landlord in' a dispute over, a farm contract, 1; aksault with intent to. murder, 1; wounding-another, 1; robbery anu re-; sisting -arrest, 1. : .• :

. The States in •which lynchings occurred ami tlm number in encli Stato are as follows:—Alabama, 3; Arkansas, 2; Cnjifornia, 1; Florida, 2; Georgia, 18; Illinois; 1>; Kentucky, ■ 1;-. Louisiunn,, 9; /Mississippi,: G.--North.Carolina?. 2j.Okla•lioiifl. 1: -Soxitii 1; - Tennpssee, 4; • Texas."9j Virginia,"'l ;■:Wyoming, 1 l;