The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-27
LYNCHINGS
In The United States In 1910
Numbered 81

Chicago, ILL.,, Dec. 23-Only 81 lynch.
ings were recorded In the United
States In 1910, much smaller num-
ber than in almost any previous year
in the last 16. In 1909 the total was
seventy and ia 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 as
sault 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 in Jail de-
livery, 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 six. The only lynching in
the North occurred In Ohio, the vic
tim being Carl Etherington, an agent
of the Ohio Anti-Saloon League, who
met death at the hands of mob in
Newark following his Imprisonment
in Jail on charge of having murder
ed saloonkeeper while making raid
np an oIlaoad blind ti1ar
Following is the record for 1910 by
states: Alabama, eight negroes; Ar
kansas, 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; Okla
homa, one negro; South Carolina, one
negro, Tennessee, two negroes; Tex
as, four negroes and two whites.
OF the five whites lynched, two were
Italians, who were lynched in Florida,
They were charged with murder and
with inciting the riots during the
strike Of cigar makers in Tampa. An
other of the white victims was a Mex
ican, who was shot and burned at the
stake near the Texas border, follow
ing his confession that he had murder
ed white woman. OF the fifty-two
negro 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 de-
livery, three; assault with intent to
do bodily injury, one; insulting wo-
men, two; threatening to commit MUIR
der, two.
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 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 OF
shot without burning at the stake
such as accompanied these acts oi
vengeance in former years.
In the foregoing record the wore
'lynchlng" has been held to apply on
ly to the summary punishment inflict
ed by mob or by any of citizens on 6
person alleged TO have committed {
crime for which that person should
have been tried according to law This
limitation excludes a number of cases
reported during the year, such as tn,
race war which occurred near Slocum
Texas, last August, in which eight o.
ten negroes We're killed.
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