Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardlings continued their fine play, crushing the Cardinal freshmen, 72 to 41. Denny Lynch with 19 points led the list of 11 scorers...
...Pearl River County grand jury, charged the jurors to "go into the jury room like men, do your duty, come out like men and keep your mouths shut." With 23 cases to consider, the khaki-clad farmers and paper-mill workers returned 17 indictments. Notably missing: indictment of lynch-law executioners of Mack Charles Parker, Negro rape suspect dragged from the unguarded Poplarville jail last April and shot to death...
Accused of raping a pregnant white woman, Parker was abducted by 15 to 20 masked men only 48 hours before his trial in Judge Dale's court. At least ten members of the lynch mob were named by the FBI in a report to Governor James P. Coleman, who had called the G-men into the case. But the 378-page dossier, said Pearl River District Attorney Vernon Broom last week, was mostly "hearsay." The grand jury did not even get to see the FBI findings. Leaving the case "unsolved," the grand jury thanked Judge Dale for his "inspired...
...unsettling factor is the long-standing Cambridge tradition that no mayor serve more than one term until all Councillors have had their chance. Hence, present Mayor McNamara, and former Mayors Lynch, De Gugilelmo, and Crane, all would have to buck this custom to gain the Mayor's post...
Others elected to two-year terms are Walter J. Sullivan, Andrew T. Troden, Alfred Vellucci, Mayor Thomas M. McNamara, and John D. Lynch. New-comers on the Council will be Sullivan, who had been assured of the seat vacated by his brother, Edward J. Sullivan, and Trodden...