The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-07
FEWER LYNCHINGS
ONLY FORTY.F0UR Are RECORD.
ED FOR Year 1918
ONE victim WAS White
Philadelphia Paper Prints Abstract
Showing That Lynchings Decreased
During the Year-Two Credited to
the North-Defense of Spartan
burg Jail is Noted.

burg Jail is Noted.
"Only A. lynchings known to be
such beyond doubt have occurred in
the United Sta:es this year. accord
ing to {. dispatch from Chicago to
the Philadelphia North American,
"and this is the lowest number for
many years, more than so being re
corded last year and as many as 25o
in some previous years. The decrease
in lynching in Southern states is at
tributed largely to efforts made by
governors, sheriffs and prominent cit
liens to prevent mob violence.
"a notable example was set on
August Is by the sheriff at Spartan
burg, S. C. In spite of the fact that
dynamite was used, he prevented
mob from lynching negro who was
accused of assaulting white wo-
man. Later the negro was tried be-
fore a white jury and found not
guilty.
"The record shows decided i'm
provement in. other respects than in
numbers. So far as the newspaper
accounts show none Of the victims
was burned at the stake. Nor were
any of the lynchings accompanied by
the so-called race riots, which always
added to the number of victims and
intensified antagonism of the white
and black races.
Harrison, Miss, furnished the
nearest approach to reign Of muir
der, when two drug-crazed mulatto
boys, on September %, ran amuck
and started a riot, in the course Of
which three white men, four negro
men and one negro woman met
death. AS the two boys met death
while resisting capture the case can
not strictly be classed as lynching.
"In the A lynchings the victims OF
all but one were negroes, and all but
two occurred in Southern states.
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 per
sons, was taken from jail and hang
ed. At Mondak, Mont, in April. J.
G. Collins, negro, who shot>H1d
killed the sheriff and deputy sheriff
of the county, was hanged by a mob.
"The States in which lynchings oc-
Cured and the number in each were
as follows: Alabama 2, Arkansas 1,
Florida 4, Georgia s, Kentucky 1,
Louisiana 4, Mississippi 8, Montana
/, North Carolina 1, North Dakota 1,
South Carolina /, Tennessee 2, Texas
6. There was at least one lynching
for every month in the year, August,
the hottest month, leading, with
eight.
Double lynchings occurred at
Blanchard. La, Cornelia, Ca, and
Pauls Valley, Okla. At Houston.
Miss, two negroes were lynched
day apart, being accused of compile
ity in the same crime. At Drew,
Miss, negro was lynched by MEM
bers Of his own race after he had
shot and killed two negro women and
two negro men.
GAS 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,
and cases in which attacks on women
were charged showed a decrease.
Nineteen of the victims Of the A
lynchines were accused Of the mur-
der of white men. Four were charg.
cd with numbering white girls, or
women. Attempted criminal assault
is on record as responsible for nine.
of the lynchings. Two negroes were
lynched for frightening white wo-
men, one for insulting white wo-
man, and another for being found
concealed under the bed in wo-
mans room. Two negroes were lynch
ed for shooting or assaulting white
men, one for robbery and shooting,
one for assisting negro murderer
to escape, and another for horse