The New York herald., 1922-05-29
KHAN RULES REVISED
AS LYNCHINGS GROW
Nine Negroes Were Killed
in Texas Within Last
Three Weeks.
WHIPPING Is STOPPED
Practice No Longer Is Sane
toned by Ku Klux
Members.
'ANTIS' NOW ORGANIZED
Former Attorney-General Of
State Is Head of the New
Association.
'ANTIS' NOW ORGANIZED

AUSTIN, Tex, May 2S.-Since May 6
nine negroes have been burned shot
or hanged by unmaslSed bands of white
men in Texas. A tenth was accused
of the murder OF r. c. Choate, a po-
! liceman of Texarkana, Ark, just
across the State line. He was cap
| tured by mob from the two States
and. after his body had been riddled
with bullets. it was publicly burned.
| Although there is no evidence that
\ the Ku Klux Klan had any part in the
recent lynchings there las been a
marked revision of the rules govern
ing TIE operations of the Khan and
whipping Of offenders no longer is
sanctioned.
! In Dallas an anti-Ku Klux organi-
zation was formed recently with M. NJ.
Crane, former Attorney General Of the
State, as chairman
This outbreak of lynchings had it's
beginning on the night of May 6, vixen
three negroes were burned to death in
the town of Kirvin for numbering Miss
Eula Awsley, II, a school girl At in
tervals of every few days there have
been mob uprisings
Girls Father Kills Negro.
The latest of the manifestations Of
iawlessness occurred on the night Of May
26. when Jesse Thomas, a twenty-three-
year-old negro OF Waco. was taken in
charge by mob and accused OF mur-
derng Harry Bolton and then attacking
Mrs. Margaret Hays, who was riding
with Bolton in an automobile near Waco.
Thomas was confronted by the young
woman in the presence of the mob, and
she identified him as the man who at
tackled her. Then Sam Harris, her
father, shot and killed Thomas
The negro's body was taken to an
undertaker's establishment, but the mob
recovered and burned it upon the public
square in the presence of several thou
sand persons.
When the mob had dispersed it was
declared the negro was not guilty. His
relatives insist he was at home on the
night of the crime. 1t is stated that
Waco is inclined to accept the proof Of
fered of Thomas's innocence At any
rate five ohter negro suspects have been
arrested and are in Jail there with proof
of guilt pointing to one Of them. Harris
self up. but was told that no warrant
had been issued for him.
Snap Curry. Nose Jones and John
| Cornish, negroes who were burned alive
at kirvin. were employed as farm hands
on the plantation OF the girls grand
father. 1t is asserted that Curry con-
| fessed and implicated the other two
| negroes in the crime. Curryis body
was mutilated before IL was burned.
His death was witnessed by the other
| two negroes who soon were to share
| similar fate. In the outskirts of the
crowd that witnessed the burning of the
negroes stood Shardich Green, negro
farmer of the community. He was
heard to condemn the action of the
mob. A day later Green's body was
found hanging to the limb of a tree
near Kirvin.
Two Others Hanged.
On May II young white woman Of
Plantersville was attacked. The author
tiles arrested a negro, Tom Early, for
| the crime. AS soon as the news spread
mob of 300 white men was formed
and Early was taken out of Jail and
hanged.
Three days after the lynching of
Early another mob hanged Nose Bro
zier at Alleyton, accused Of attacking
twelve-year-od white girl
II At Conroe a negro named Joe Win
ters was arrested on the charge of at
tacking a white woman. He was cap
tured by a mob, taken TO the court
house yard, chained TO the iron fence, a
funeral pyre built around him, and
burned to death on May 10 in the
presence OF hundreds. IL is asserted he
confessed.
Farmers near Bryan accused n negro
of having poisoned their cattle on
May 23 a mob tied the negro. named
Roysen, to the end of rope and dragged
him to death.
Not a member OF the various nnobs has
been arrested. Gov Neff sent Rangers
90 Kirvin and Waco. but they did not
reach the town until after the excite
ment was over. At Waco the Rangers
still are guarding the jail.
The citizenship of the state is aroused
over the unprecedented outbreaks OF
mobs and Gov. Neff has been urged to
take action He has issued a statement
In which he deplores the mob spirit. He
points out that good would he accom-
plished II tho Legislature would pass n
law providing for tho trial of persons
accused OF mob violence In n county
other than tho one In which the lynch
ing occurred. II Is regarded as useless
to arrest or attempt to convict a mem
Der of a mob in his own community.