Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remembered that the discovery of Hart's body corroborated the confession of the two prisoners. But in making his statement Governor Rolph showed his understanding of one significant fact. The lynching was not simply an act of vengeance, it was a contemptuous dismissal of lawyer-made criminal law; the mob showed its impatience with a legal procedure that makes criminals odds-on favorites over this law with encouraging vigor and finality...
This time there was no Clarence Darrow, no highly paid alienist, no maudlin press, no bribed jury, nor oratorical defense lawyers, and no harassing of bereaved relatives on the witness stand. Thurmond and Holmes were too gulity to be accorded the delightful interlude called American criminal justice. The mob was sick of a system that convicts 299 out of 300 law abiding citizens accused of violating traffic regulations and then refuses to convict 79 out of 30 accused murderers...
...Eddie, that music is too heavily scored." Mr. Dowling agreed. After the showing an English lady gushed: "I loved it! All those English scenes. I only wonder whether the American public will appreciate its subtle appeal?" "Tut. tut," replied the smiling President. "I'm one of the American mob and I enjoyed it thoroughly...
After the kidnappers had been deposited in the San Francisco jail to escape mob violence, police continued to drag the waters around San Mateo bridge for Brooke Hart's body. Even without a corpus delicti the State was primed to hang Thurmond and Holmes under California's brand new kidnapping statute...
...lynching of Negro George Armwood. 28, for raping Mrs. Mary Denston, 71. by a mob in Princess Anne, Md. (TIME, Oct. 30): refusal by Somerset County State's Attorney John B. Robins to arrest nine members of the lynching mob identified by eyewitnesses, at the request of Maryland's Attorney General William Preston Lane Jr. who said he "even drew maps showing what they did and where they were." Reason for the refusal: "I don't believe those men would stay in jail. I believe a crowd would form and take them away...