The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-12-23

Chicago, Dec. 23.-Only 81 lynch
ings were recorded in the United
States in 1910. much smaller num-
Der than in almost any previous
year in the last 16. In 1909 the to-
tai was seventy and in 1908 it was
65.
All but five of the 81 cases CT
lynching in 1910 were of negroes,
and ten of these cases were those
in which the charge against the vic
tim was assault on white women or
girls. In eleven of the remaining
criminal assault. In the five cases
of white men, four were for muir
der and the other for aiding and
abetting in a jail delivery. Several
of the cases in which negroes were
lynched we're based upon the muir
der, or alleged murder, of white wo-
men in which the question of assault
is implied.
AS in previous years, nearly all
the lynchings were in southern
states, Florida and Georgia having
ten each. Alabama and Arkansas
eight each. and Texas five. The on
~ lynching in the North occurred in
Ohio, the victim being Carl Ether
ington, an agent OF the Ohio Anti
Saloon League, who met death at
the hands Of a mob In Newark fol-
lowing his Imprisonment In jail on
a sharge of having murdered sa-
loonkeeper while making a raid on
an alleged blind tiger.
Following is the record for 1910
by states: Alabama, eight negroes;
Arkansas, eight negroes: Florida,
eight negroes and two whites; Geor-
gia, ten negroes; Louisiana, one
white man; Mississippi, five negroes;
Missouri, three negroes; North Caro-
lima, one negro: Ohio, one white
man; Oklahoma, one negro; South
Carolina, one negro; Tennessee, two
negroes: Texas, four negroes and
two whites.
Of the five whites lynchei, 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. Another of the white vic
tins was a Mexican, who was shot
and burned at the stake near the
Texas border, following his confess
sion that he had murdered white
woman. Of the fifty-two negro vic
tins. two were women.
The record of the crimes for which
the victims were put TO death fol-
lows: Murder. seventeen; criminal
assault, ten; attempted criminal as
sault, eleven; robbery, four; at
tempted murder. seven: aiding and
abetting Jail delivery, three; assault
with intent to do bodily injury, enc;
insulting women, two; threatening
to commit murder, two.
In many Of the cases the lynch
irgs followed the arrest or cClvic-
ton Of the victims on the charges
made against them In other cases
the victims met death while endeav-
oring to escape from pursuing posses.
In two cases the negro victims were
lynched by mobs composed Of men,
bers 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 for
meT years.
In the foregoing record the word
"lynching" has been held 20 apply
only to the summary punishment in
flicted by a mob or by any number !
of citizens on a person alleged to
have committed a crime for which
that person should have been tried
according 20 law. This limitation
excludes a number CT cases report
ID during the year, such as the race
war which occurred near Slonum.
Texas, last August, in which eight
or ten negroes were killed.