Evening star., 1933-11-27
ASSURED
IN HART LyNCH|NG
RoIph Says He Will Free Any
Convicted-Praises
Work of Mob.
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desperately The third time the rope
was given terrific jerk and his body
shot Is feet upward to end his Strug-
giles. There was great cheer.
Some one applied the torch to the
clothing still covering the upper half
of Thurmond's body, but the blaze died
out.
Knot Expertly Tied.
Officers said the rope with which
Holmes was hanged had been expertly
tied with hangman's knot. AS the
body was lowered both men and women
stepped forward and kicked it. The
crowd ieered as an ambulance bore the
bodies away.
Hundreds of automobiles in the Vi
cinity of the lynching, police said, were
without license plates, which had peen
removed to prevent identification.
A few minutes after they were cut
down from the trees the bodies were
lying on slabs in the same morgue to
which the torn body OF Hart was taken
after being recovered from San Fran
ciso Bay yesterday.
Until daylight groups OF curious
gathered bepeath the hanging trees.
which had been almost stripped OF
tnelr DrdnCneS Dy SUNtIliI uullICio.
Hours after the lynching last night
the tear gas still hung about the jail like
a sinister veil. The floors of the build
ing were filled with wreckage. Two
steel barred doors that had been
smashed were barely hanging on their
hinges and the heavy pipes that had
served as battering rams lay in
corridor.
Not an arrest was made. The only
shots that were fired, with the exception
of the charges from tear gas guns and
bombs, were the two that started the
attack on the jail
Sheriff Emib, who was knocked sense
less during the Jail attack, stood by
helpless. until the crowd had wreaked
its vengeance. Then he went to hos
pital for treatment. Howard Buffing-
ton, deputy who was struck from be-
hind while pleading with the mob, and
State Highway Patrolman Nick Glad
ner. also received emergency treatment
Several persons were struck by flying
missils or burned by tear gas bursts.
The body of Hart. kidnapped and slain
22-year-old son of Alex J. Hart, wealthy
San Jose department store owner. was
found in San Francisco Bay, near Hay
ward. yesterday. Although badly de-
composed. Identification was made posi-
lively from clothing by friends and OIL
cials of the store.
Two duck hunters found it floating
half a mile south of the San Mateo-
Hayward Bridge. crossing San Fran
cisco Bay, the bridge from which
Thomas H. Thurmond and Jack Holmes
have allegedly confessed they threw the
youth last November 9 after stunning
him with a blow from brick. A few
t,nfo ,n NySd- InIy &C
statement declared they had kidnaped
him as he drove his roadster from
parking lot An hour Later their con-
fessions said, they telephoned the
father from San Francisco and de-
manded SAC, 900 ransom for "the safe
return of your con."
Leonard L. Dalve and Harold L.
Stephens of Redwood City, the hunters,
towed the body to shore.
Final Identification Of the body was
made by Louis Rossi manager of the
mems department of the Hart store,
who declared he had sold young Hart
all of the clothing which still clung
to the body.
This suit he bought few days
before he disappeared" Rossi said, as
tears came into his eyes. What
ghastly crime. Every one loved Brooke.
He was an outstanding example of
young American manhood"
He broke down completely and was
taken away from the scene.
Charles O'Brien. chum of the slain
boy also identified the suit and said
Brooke was wearing it the day he was
kidnapped because he was going to get
his picture taken"
The body will be held at Hayward for
a coroner's inquest, within a few days.
At the back of the skull was an iden.
ture, the size of a silver dollar, which
officials said corroborated the confess
sions of Thurmond and Holmes that
the youth had been struck on the head
with a brick. Although the men had
declared they trussed the body with
wire before throwing it into the water,
no wire was on it today.
Tall, blond, smiling and with host
of friends in this community. Brooke
Hart was graduated from Santa Clara
University few months ago and taken
into the store with his father as a vice
president. Last November he went to
a parking lot to get his roadster. He
was never seen alive again.