The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-03
$3.50 LYNCHED
IN 20 YEARS..
Record for Present Year 10
Aug. 80 is Over a Hundred.
1882, BIGGEST LYkCHING YEAR.
Mississippi Leads 10 The Number Of Mob
Murders Governors al Loss 10 Suggest
Preventive Measures
1882, BIGGEST LYkCHlNG YEAR.

Chicago, Sept s--students OF govern
ment believe the lynching problem is fast
reaching that point where drastic meas
nres will have to be taken by congress to
check a.
Governors OF the 'lynching' states
have been asked for suggestions TO stop
mob murders. only one offered anything
OF value. lie said II state laws were
passed depriving all county officials of
their Offices where illegal executions had
taken place the effect would be more
salutary than through any other form OF
punishment
Most OF the other governors simply
threw up their hands in despair. When
the people learnNo control their passion
then will lynchings cease" was the gem
eral expression.
Records kept for twenty years show
$3.50 lynchIngs This year up 20 Aug.
30. lOl lynchings took place. The biggest
.lynchlng year was 1892, with 2S6. New
York had one lynching In 1892 and one in
1896. Pennsylvania Is credited with three
since 1855. Every state has been the
the last sixteen years, except Delaware
Massachusetts. New Hampshire, Rhode
Island and Utah.
MISSISSIPPI LEADS LYNCHERs.
The state having the largest number Is
Mississippi with 253 10 It's discredit
Texas comes second with 247 and. Louis
lana third with 22i Georgia has had 2is
Alabama 2lO ana Tennessee 1863. The
northern state holding the record Tor
lynchings is Indiana with 36 But two
northern territories equal or exceed this
Indian Territory having had SO and OKLA
homa s6 Illinois has had IA lynchings In
sixteen years.
or the l0l victims OF lynch law dur
ing the present year, IS were colored, ~
white one Indian and one Chinese. Mur-
der was given as the cause for "a lynch-
inps. attacks on women, 20: murderous
assault 6, race prejudice, 3, arson, - At
reunited assault 4; theft. g. sheltering
murderer 3: suspected cattle stealing, -
suspected killing cattle 2: stealing horses
a; train wrecking, !; keeping gamphhs
house. /; resisting arrest /: robbery, IN
sulting white women 2; assaulting whlte
person. 4. by white caps, l. mistaken
Identity, 4.
MANY HORSE THIEVES LYNCHED
In 1885 the feeling against horse stealing
was especially severe, the number OF ex-
ecutions for that crime being thirty-hve'
In 1888 the Nigilanties were unusually
active. iynching seven In 1887 i'Noodoo'
ism" was first regarded az an offence
grave enough TO justify sudden death
without recourse 10 the law In lNS> ths
horse thieves were again given no mercy
ten OF them paying the extreme penalty
I'm 1889 II WAS the outlaws and despera'
does who suffered most. nineteen OF them
being strung up by mobs I'm lN@ race
rreiiAicc claimed five victims and poiti
cal prejudice three.
The most sensational feature % lN9
was tho summary execution OF clever
Italians In Kew Orleans for alleged con
spiracy Co murder IN 1872 the crime O
horse stealing cost twenty more men thei
lives
In 1875 The White Cans began operations
lynchlng one man in 800 Eve men wer
hanged without trial because thoN 'ha'
bad populations I'm l9W race preiudie
was again SO The fore with ten victims