Word: lynched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When captured, Youth Melgar (who by this time also had a broken arm and a fractured skull in addition to his neck wound; said: "My action was entirely personal." The police, according to Lima newsgatherers, were at first determined to lynch Youth Melgar, desisted only under stern orders from their superiors...
...began. Civil Guards were called out, four people were killed, three wounded. Mobs wrecked a Catholic newspaper, hurled gasoline on the doors of a Jesuit monastery and attempted to burn it down. Inside the monastery somebody fired on the mob. As another crowd stormed the jail and attempted to lynch the 70 Tradicionalistas who had taken refuge there, 30 artillerymen saved their lives. Police searched the convents and monasteries of Bilbao for hidden arms. Socialists held a public funeral for the victims of the riot, and declared a general strike...
Four veterans comprise the backbone of the visiting Saints' sextet: E. and L. Prelesnick, Lynch, and Captain Almquist. All of these men were on their team's Eastern tour last year when the St. Mary's stickmen ran up a series of victories only to be trimmed 3 to 1 by Yale in their final game. In the recent exhibition against St. Nicholas, the Saints are reported to have considerably outclassed the New Yorkers in spite of the deceptively small score, although the metropolitan team was not running full strength. On the whole, the Crimson's strong reserves should prove...
HUGH T. A. JOHNSTON Brown & Lynch Post No. 9 American Legion Easton...
...wreck the station. After furious wrangling Shanghai railroad officials pretended to yield. Students cheered as their train chuffed out of Shanghai station, raged when it was shunted onto a sidetrack at Chinkiang, 50 miles from Nanking, and left there by an engine which absconded before the students could lynch the fireman and engineer...