The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-12-23
Negroes andF Five Whites
Victims Of Mob Rule in 1910
Smallest Number for Is
Years
WIDE VARIETY OF OFfENSES
Florida and Georgia Lead in Total
Number Of Cases-AlI But One
Of the Lynchings Have Oc-
CURED in South.

Chicago, ILL.,, Dec. 23.-Only 81 lynch
ings were recorded in the United
States in 1910, n much smaller number
than in almost any previous year in
the last 16. In 1909 the total was sew
enty and in 1908 il was sixty-five.
All but five of the 81 cases of lynch
ing I'm 1910 were of negroes. and ten
OF these cases were those i'm which the
charge against the victims was as
saut on white women or girls. In
eleven of the remaining number the
charge was attempted criminal as
sault. In the five cases of white men,
four were for murder and the other
for aiding and abetting i'm a Jail deliv-
cry. Several of the cases in which ne
groes were lynched were based upon
the murder, or alleged murder, of
white women in which the question of
assault is implied.
Majority in South.
As i'm previous years, nearly all the
lynchings were i'm southern states,
Florida and Georgia having ten each,
Alabama and Arkansas eight each, and
Texas six. The only lynching i'm the
North occurred in Ohio, the victim be-
ing Carl Etherngton. an agent of the
Ohio Anti-Saloon League, who met
death at the hands of a mob in New
ark following his Imprisonment in Jail
On a charge of having murdered
saloonkeeper while making a raid on
an alleged blind tiger.
Following is the record for 1910 by
states: Alabama, eight negroes; Ark
ansas, eight negroes; Florida, eight
negroes and two whites; Georgia, ten
negroes; Louisiana, one white man;
Mississippi, five negroes; Missouri,
three negroes: North Carolina, one
negro: Ohio, one white man; Oklaho-
ma, one negro; South Carolina. one
negro; Tennessee. two negroes: Tex
as, four negroes and two whites.
Record OF Crimes.
or the five whites lynched two were
Italians. who were lynched in Florida.
They were charged with murder and
with melting the riots during the
strike of cigar makers in Tampa. An
other of the white victims was n Mex
lean, who was shot and burned at the
stake near the Texas border. following
his confession that he had murdered
a white woman. OF the fifty-two ne
gro victims, two were women.
The record of the crimes for which
the victims were put to death follows:
Murder. seventeen: criminal assault,
ten; attempted criminal assault. elev-
en-; robbery, four; attempted murder,
seven; aiding and abetting Jail deliv-
cry. three; assault with intend to do
bodily injury. one; insulting women,
two: threatening to commit murder,
two.
Lynching Follows Conviction.
In many of the cases the lynchings
followed the arrest or conviction OF
the victims on the charges made
against them. In other cases the vic
Tins met death while endeavoring to
escape from pursuing posse In two
cases the negro victims we lynched
by mobs composed of membo of their
own race. In almost every case the
victim was summarily hanged or shot
without burning at the stake. such
as accompanied these acts OF summary
vengeance in former years.
In the foregoing record the WORD
"lynching'' has been held to apply only
to the summary punishment inflicted
by a mob or by any number of citi-
zens on a person alleged to have COM
mitted a crime for which that person
should Have been tried according I'd
law. This limitation excludes num-
ber of cases reported during the year,
such as the race war which occurred
near Slocum. Texas, last August, In
which eight or ten negroes were Kill
ed.