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the stake, an atrocity that has been
INDUCED in by infuriated mobs
more than once in the past. Nor
we're any of the lynching cases this
year accompanied by the so-called
race riots, which always added to the
number OF victims and served to ins
tensify the antagonism OF the white
and black races.
The town of Harriston, Miss, fur
nished the nearest approach to
reign of MURDER" when two drug
crazed mulatto boys, on September 2S,
ran amuck and started riot in the.
course of which three white men, four
negro men and one negro woman met
death. The two boys we're killed by
the citizens, but as they met death
while resisting capture the case cannot
strictly be classed as one of lynching.
In the forty-four lynchings the VIC
tins of all but one were negroes, and
all but two of the cases occurred in
Southern States. No woman was in
cluded among the years victims.
North Dakota and Montana were.
the two Northern States in which
lynchings occurred. At Ray, N. D.,
Cleve Culbertson, a white man, ac-
cused Of the murder of three persons.
was taken from Jail by mob and
hanged. The only other case in q
Northern State occurred at Mondak,
Mont, in April, when J. C Collins, a
negro, who shot and killed the sher-
iff and deputy sheriff of the county,
was hanged by mob.
The States in which the 1ynchings
occurred during the year and the num-
ber in each were as follows: Alabama,
2; Arkansas, 1; Florida,4; Georgia, s.;
Kentucky, l; Louisiana, A.; Mississip-
pi,8; Montana, 1 North Carolina, L;
North Dakota, L; South Carolina, l.;
Tennessee, 2; Texas, 6.
There was at least one lynching
for every month in the year, August,
the hottest month, leading with eight.
Following are the lynchings by
months: January, 8; February, 8;
March, 8; April, 1; May, %; June, a;
July, A; August, g.; September, a;
October, 1; November, 4; December, 5.
Double lynchings occurred at
Blanchard, La, Cornelia, Ca, and
Pauls Valley, Okla. At Houston, Miss,
two negroes were !ynched a day
apart, both being accused of COM
plicity in the same crime. At Drew,
Miss, a negro was lynched by men,
bers of his own race after he had shot.
and killed two negro women and two
negro men.
AS in previous years, murders of
white persons and crimes or alleged
crimes against white women caused
most of the summary executions. The
murders were in the big majority,
however, and the number of cases in
which attacks on women were charged
showed gratifying decrease over the
figures of previous years.
four lynchings were accused of the
murder of white men Four were
charged with numbering white girls
or women. Attempted criminal as
sault is ON record as responsible for
| nine of the lynchings. Two negroes
we're lynched for frightening white
women, one for insulting a white wom-
an, and another for being found con-
cealed under the bed in a woman's
room. Two negroes were lynched for
shooting or assaulting white men, one
for robbery and shooting, one for as
sisting a negro murderer to escape,
and another for horse stealing. In
one case the crime charged against
the victim was not stated.
The gratifying decrease in lynching
in Southern States is attributed
largely to the efforts that have been
made by governors, county sheriffs
and prominent citizens in the last
few years to prevent mob violence.
Many of those in authority have acted
promptly and energetically to prevent
! lynchings, with the declared policy OF
giving the law free opportunity for
the punishment of Il alleged Attend
ers, white or black.
A notable example was set on Aug
ust Is by the sheriff of Spartanburg,
S. c. In spite of the fact that dyna-
mite was used, he prevented a mob
from lynching negro who was ac-
cused of assaulting a white woman.
Later the negro was tried before g.
white jury and found not guilty.