Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind how the affair must end. The train taking Hale to prison stops beside a swamp and an angry crowd breaks into the baggage car where he is sitting with two detectives. Hale opens the door to jump, but looking up at him are the faces of the lynch mob. There is nothing much left of They Won't Forget after that except Reporter Brook's mildly rueful comment to District Attorney Griffin after Hale's widow has called them a pair of murderers: "Now that it's over, Andy, I wonder if he really...
...innumerable accounts of the famed Montague v. Crosby golf match finally caught the eye of someone who knew La Verne Moore and was interested in finding him. This was Police Inspector John Cosart of Troop D, Oneida, N. Y., who clipped the article, sent it to Inspector Joseph Lynch at Malone, N. Y. who sent Moore's fingerprints to Los Angeles...
White Bondage (Warner). Gordon Oliver and Jean Muir in a Southern sharecropper melodrama, complete with bloodhounds and lynch...
...serving as Sheriff of Mobile County, Ala. a Mobile policeman was shot down and killed by a criminal Negro who was apprehended and lodged in jail. Feeling ran high and word was brought to me that types described by the Attorney General were organizing to take and lynch the prisoner. I had several of them brought to the sheriff's office and said to them: "I want to make you a proposition...
...that," replied the company-hired police chief of Lynch, a company-owned coal town in Harlan County, Ky. "It would mean a Senate investigation and we can't stand that...