STARTLING REPORT
i LYNCHINGS IN AMERICA. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ■ (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 9. A startling report, issued at Atlanta by. the Southern Commission on lynching, says that two out of twenty-one persons lynched in 1930 we-r© certainly innocent, while eleven others ■ were possjb'ly innocent. The/ negroes-’ political impotence is called',:a factor in the-;., ‘ ‘jndifferenoer” of . law officers toiwardfe mobs. The ,;OomipissKon \ gave Illustration .of “legal ';.; lynchings,” namely, trials under mob,.pressure. A total of 3693 lynchings have occurred since.lßß9-
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1931, Page 6
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