The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-12-23
tAmerican News Service)

NfAuiSiiSdu NEWS SeTSicey
Chicago, ILL.,. Dec. 2s.-Only 81
lynchings We're recorded In the Unit
ed States in 1910. q much smaller
number than in almost any previous
year in the last sixteen. In 1909 the
total was seventy and In 1908 1t was
sixty-five.
All but five OF the 81 cases OF lynch
ing in 1910 were OF negroes, and ten
of these cases were those in which the
charge against the victim was assault
on white women or girls. In eleven Of
the remaininSsRnmhar tho 4eharge was
five cases Of white men, four were
for murder and the other for aiding
and abetting In jail delivery. Several
Of the cases in which negroes were
lynched We're based upon the murder
or alleged murder, of white women
in which the question OF assault is ira-
piled.
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 six. The only lynching In the
North occurred In Ohio, the victim be-
ing Carl Etherington. an agent OF the
Ohio Anti-Saloon League who met
death at the hands of mob in New
ark following his Imprisonment In jail
on a charge OF having murdered
saloonkeeper while making raid on
an alleged blind tiger.
4 A Record BY states.
i Following the record for 1910 by
States: Alabama, eight negroes: Ar
kansas. eight negroes: Florida. eight
negroes and two whites; Georgias ten
negroes; North Carolina. one negro:
Louisiana one white man: Mississippi,
five negroes; Missouri. three negroes:
J Ohio. one white man: Oklahoma, one
negro; South Carolina, one negro;
Tennessee, two negroes: Texas. four
! negroes and two whites.
or the five whites lynched. two
were Italians, who were lynched in
Florida. They were charged with
murder and with melting the riots dur
ing the strike of cigar makers in
. Tampa. Another of the white VIC
. tins was Mexican, who was shot and
burned at the stake near the Texas
border, following his confession that he
had murdered white woman. OF the
fifty-two negro victims, two were wo-
, men.
n he r,f ha frx~ 3rh
the victims were put to death follows:
Murder, seventeen; criminal assault,
Z ten; attempted criminal assault, eley-
en-; robbery. four; attempted murder,
: seven: aiding and abetting jail deliy-
cry. three: assault with intent TO do
. bodily injury. one: insulting women.
: two; threatening to commit murder,
two.
Two lynched by Negroes.
, 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 10
. escape from pursuing posses. In two
cases the negro victims were lynched
by mobs composed OF members 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 sum
mary vengeance in former years.
; In the foregoing record the word
! "lynching" has been held to apply on
j Ily to the summary punishment inf1ict-
Z ed by mob or by any number Of citi-
: zens on . person alleged to have com
! mitted crime for which that per-
! Ison should have been tried according
3 Ito law. This Limitation excludes a
: number OF cases reported during the
3 Iyear, such as the race war which oc-
S CURED near SIocum, Texas, last Aug-
. lust. in which eight on ten negroes were
killed.