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Dallas. Robert Lynch, Negro, wanted for the murder of an expressman whose body he cut up with a pocket knife, whose truck he stole...
Rape was the charge against Curley Wright, Negro, when he faced a judge and jury in circuit court at Centerville, Tenn., last week. He was glad when 100 National Guardsmen arrived to cow a vengeful mob that threatened to lynch him. Complainant against him was Mrs. Zora Johnson Lynn, 55, weak-minded widow. Her account of the attack was lurid. Her two granddaughters, posing as eyewitnesses, embellished the tale by telling how Wright had flourished pistols, one in each hand...
...Alabama and not of Judge Lynch took its course last week against Lester Bouyer, Negro criminal. Near Eufaula, Bouyer had murdered a young white man, raped his white woman companion. Arrested, he was lodged in the State prison near Montgomery for safe keeping. The familiar rumblings of lynch preparations were loud and ominous. But Governor Bibb Graves declared: "There will not be a lynching in Alabama if I can prevent it." He called out 200 National Guardsmen to protect Bouyer "at any hazard" on his journey to Eufaula for trial. The courtroom resembled an armed camp. Bouyer was convicted...
sirs: TIME has brought two delightful experiences me within recent weeks for which I am grateful. One of these was caused by the excellent, impartial review of my book on lynching, Rope, and Faggot, which appeared in the ssue of June 24; the other by TIME'S printing n the July 8 issue of letters from below the Smith and Wesson line threatening me with ynching, tarring and feathering and other courtesies. Such solicitude and statements as Mr. Eldon O. Haldane's that ''the well balanced Southerner hopes that lynchings of Negroes will increase rather than...
Congratulations are due you for a Time-worthy report headed Judge Lynch, page 43, TIME, June 24 issue...