The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
q Lynchings
SinceJ January
LID. Reports
Law Officers Took Part
in Many, Record
Points Out

Twenty-one lynchings took place
in the first nine months of 1884,
according to figures compiled by
the national Office of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
In making the list public, the
I. L. D. stated:
There is no question that a
large proportion of lynchings oc-
curing in the United States are
never reported in the press, and
this list is offered rs the most COM
plete available
I'm nearly all these cases. assis-
lance Il not leadership Of officers
Of the law in the lynching was re-
ported.
TN each Of these cases, at least
three men participated in an or
ganized manner in the lynching.
Many ether cases in which lynch
murders were committed by single
private individuals or by officers
of the law. or by less than three
persons acting in concert. are not
listed
The list follows:
l. Unidentified man, lynched
near Barlow, Ca, by a gang of
white men January 9. No excuse
was given.
2. Rex Scott, 20, shot and hang
ed by a gang Of so men, at Hazard,
KY, Jan. %, Charged with strik-
ing a white man in a fight.
3. Robert johnson, lynched near
Tampa, Fla, Jan. 80, while in Gus
tody OF Deputy Constable T. M.
Graves on charge of petty lar
ceny. Partial identification" for
attack on white woman" (un-
named. was made after the lynch
ing for press purposes.
4. James Franklin. yard hand.
lynched by employer, Joe Kopman.
with assistance of two policemen
who held Franklin while Kopman
shot MIN. This took place at Brad
enton, Fla, April 49, Lynchins was
part of general reign of terror
against organizing citrus workers,
but a story of an attack" on Kop-
mans daughter was given out.
5. Ramon Elloia, farmland, So,
lynched at Greenville, Miss. April
%, by w. B. Basket, farm manager.
Ben Dildant, Sheriff, and two
others. Shot to death after argu-
ment between Elloia and Will Moss,
Negro foreman.
6. Unidentified man, found with
rope around his neck. evidently
lynched. on golf course at New
Castle, N. Y, May ).
I. Unidentified man. shot to
death by a mob of 300. at Laurens.
S. c.. May TO- He was charged with
shooting at and wounding deputy
sheriff K. F. Johns when Johns
beat him with a club.
8, Euchere Pete Sylve. moved
down ny police and mob at Pointe
a Ia Hache, La. May II. Excuse
later made up that he was run
ming smuck" proved false. He had
refused to be arrested without a
warrant.
9, 10. Joe Love and Isaac Thomas,
lynched at Lambert, Miss, June 8,
hanged from bridge. Charged
with assault" Sheriff and two
deputies directly involved.
IL. Son Griggs, 30, hanged, shot
and dragged behind automobile by
officers assisted by mob of $50, June
81, at Kirbyville, Tex, for associat-
ing with white woman friend.
II. Dick Wllkerson. IS. lynched
by gang which destroyed his home
also after he had had alteration
with white hoodlums invading
Negro dance. at Manchester. Tenn,
June "a.
ID. Andrew McCloud. charged
with attempted assault" Iynched
by K. K, K. gang, which organized
mob of 800 at Pastrop, La. July 9.
Throat cut and hanged. Sheriff
and Police Chief conveniently "out
Of town" while he was taken from
Jail.
IA. Noise Wilson. shot by gang of