U.S.A. LYNCHING

Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1933, Page 6

U.S.A. LYNCHING

SOMBRE NOTE OF WARNING

OPPOSITION TO PRINCIPLE

(United - Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received this day at 12.50 p.m.) ■ <• NEW YORK, November 28,

From Greenville, South Carolina, icome 6 news that eleven members of a white-robe,d aod hooded..,band, which on the night of November 16, ly.ncliecl a; negro, George Green, aged 73, have been rounded up and charged with murder. Officers are also promising additional arrests.

• The most sombre note of warning perhaps.. is. contained in. a leading article in the. New York “World Telegram.” “This is a time Of vast unrest. Otherwjifje /law-abiding citizens fore taking the Jaw into their own hands. Farmers arb using violence against officers ant* judges, strikerg are being shot down, and the country is on edge. For many months whole communities and classes have been under nervous tension, almost to the point of breaking, and now we enter another winter cf mags suffering. In'Such an explosive situation, for IRolph or any other sworn officer or the law to feed the mob spirit is worse than criminal. Those who raise up the mob must be prepared for the destruction of the nation.”

Surprise was expressed here 'when it was learned that the St. Paul Federal Court jury to-day' acquitted Roger Touhy and three other Chicago men on charges growing out of kidnapping William Kamm, the millionaire brewer on June 15.

•Meanwhile fugitive warrants charging them with participation, in the Factor kidnapping on July 2, were served on the same four.

NATION’S OPINION DIVIDED

FOUR ADDITIONAL ARRESTS

(Received this- day at 1.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 28.

While the controversy continues to rage, over Governor .Rolpli’s statement, public newspaper editorial opinion is taking sides.

Governor (Ritchie, of Maryland, ordleued t'roiops to Salisbury to arrest lynchers who last month killed a negro, charged with attacking an aged white woman. State militia, men, with the four alleged lynchers as prisoners, broke through the infuriated niob, speeding in lorries to Baltimore, after a clash, in. which the soldiers threw over a hundred gas bombs. A scene in which the state attorney-general and officials, wen© targets - for - stones- hurled by the mob marked the climax of the day.

■ The accused men were roused from (bed and held in an armoury until- the crowd became so threatening that the officials decided to break through the cordon and speed to Baltimore. •' Already repefeusskms' over Governor Ritchie’s action have come, with threats of impeachment from 'State legislators, and praise and blame frbm various quarters throughout the nation, women sending th© Governor telegia’ms of approval, while public bodies excoriate his “lawlessness.”

: The San - Jose sheriff, Emig, and deputy-sheriff, Buffington, who were knocked down as they attempted. to stem the advance of the lynching mob, are remaining in hospital, both seriously injured. i City officials plan to dig up the trees on which the men were hanged, g 0 as to remove all -reminders of the event. 1