Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jury would require about 30 seconds to reach an electrocution verdict for the perpetrator of such a crime as this. Those unlawful hoodlums who imagine themselves heroes when taking part in lynchings have a distorted idea of patriotism. Only lawless hoodlums and the enemies of government take part in mob law. As the chief law enforcement officer of this State I condemn it and make known that as long as I am the attorney general of this State, those persons who think they are more important and powerful than the law and who take the law in their own hands...
Captain Matt Leach, head of Indiana's State Police, says that "because of their viciousness and the way they operate, the Brady mob is going to make Dillinger look like a neophyte." This sombre testimonial was justified shortly after the Goodland bank robbery. Pursued by two policemen, Brady & friends hid behind a church at a crossroads. When the officers drove up, the gang opened fire with automatic rifles and shotguns. Trooper Paul Minneman fell out of the car. Brady walked over to him. "This------'s dead," he said...
...called in because the mob had previously taken some loot across a State line), local officers and police from four States were out in force after the Brady mob when two mornings later they rolled up to the Indianapolis fair grounds, held up a watchman while they made a telephone call. That afternoon they lunched at a restaurant a block from the Marion County jail, where their colleague Geisking was being held for killing the gang's second policeman. If they intended to "spring" their friend, they did not do it that afternoon. Instead, Brady & friends vanished...
Year ago the U. S. press carried an ugly tale: near Earle, Ark., when a picket line of sharecroppers was broken up by a mob of vigilantes, a Negro named Frank Weems had been beaten to death. Within a few days the Rev. Claude Williams, asked by the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union to preach Weems's funeral sermon, left Memphis accompanied by Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis social worker, to investigate Weems's death and gather material for his obituary. At Earle, they were seized by vigilantes. Parson Williams was given 14 thumping whacks with a mule...
...employes. Massing outside, they were joined by some 10,000 sympathetic workers from other mills. For a while the ugly-tempered crowd contented itself with milling, muttering, shying an occasional stone through plant windows. Suddenly some 300 men detached themselves from the main body and, while the mob set up a terrifying roar, battered their way through a line of 100 policemen, stormed through doors and windows, beat down the guards inside, commenced a Sit-Down. While 40 battlers licked their wounds, company officials promptly commenced negotiations with C. I. O.'s American Federation of Hosiery Workers...