The Omaha guide., 1934-02-17

6cer or employee shall likewise By
guilty of a felony On conviction the
parties participating therein shall be
punished by Imprisonment Of not less
than five years or for life.
Sec. 4. The district court CT ths
judicial district wherein the person
is injured or put to death by a mob
or riotous assemblage shall have jur-
isdiction to try and to punish, in ac-
cordance with the laws of the State
where the injury is inflicted or the
homicide is committed, any and ali
persons who participate therein: Pro
vided, that it is first made to appear
to such court (1) that the officers Of
the State charged with the duty Of
experimenting, prosecuting, and pun
ishing such offenders under the laws
Of the State shall have failed, neglect
ed, or refused to apprehend, prose
60 or punish such offenders; or (2)
that the jurors obtainable for service
in the State ccIrt having jurisdiction
of the offense are so strongly opposed
to such punishment that there is no
probability that those guilty of the
offense can be punished in such State
court. A failure for more than thirty
days after the commission of such an
/ off tt apprehend or to indict the
persons guilty thereof, or a failure
| diligently to prosecute such persons,
| shall be sufficient to constitute prima
facie evidence Of the failure, neglect
or refusal described in the above pro-
xiso.
Sec. 5. Any county in which a per-
son is put to death by a mob or riot
Gus assemblage shall forfeit $4,000,
which sum may be recovered by suit
therefor in the name of the United
States against such county for the
use Of the family, if any, of the per-
| son so put to death; if he had no fam
lily, then of his dependent parents, if
any; otherwise for the use of the
United States. Such action shall be
brought and prosecuted by the dis
triet attorney Of the United States Of
the district in the United States dis
trict court for such district. Ii such
forfeiture be not paid upon recovery
of a judgment therefor, such court
shall have jurisdiction to enforce pay
ment thereof by levy Of execution up
on any property Of the county, OF may
otherwise compel payment thereof by
mandamus or other appropriate pro-
cess; and any officer Of such county
or other person who disobeys or fails
to comply with any lawful order of
the court in the premises shall be liza
bic to punishment as for contempt
and to any other penalty provided by
law therefor.
Sec. 6. In the event that any pr
son SO put to death shall have been
transported by such mob or riotous
assemblage from one county to an
other county during the time inter
vening between his seizure and put
ting to death, the county in which he
is seized and the county in which he
is put to death shall be jointly and
seve1ally liable to pay the forfeiture.
herein provided.
Sec. 7. Any act committed in any
State or Territory of the United
States in violation of the rights of a
citizen or subject of a foreign III
try secured to such citizen or subject
by treaty between the United States
and such foreign country, which act
constitutes a crime under the laws of
such State or Territory, shall on
stitute a like crime against the peace
and dignity of the United States, pun
ishable in like manner in its courts as
in the courts of said State or Terri
tory, and within the period limited by
the laws Of such State or Territory,
and may be prosecuted in the courts
Of the United States, and upon con-
viction the sentence executed in like
n as sentences upon convictions
for crimes under the laws of the
United States.
Sec. s. If any provision of this Act
or the application thereof to any per-
son or circumstances, is held invalid,
the remainder of the Act, and the
application of such provision to other
persons or circumstances, shall not be
affected thereby.