Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shamblin hustled three Negroes into an automobile one midnight last week, sped down a lonely back road toward Birmingham. His prisoners were Dan Pippen, 18, A. T. Harden, 16, and Elmore Clark, 28, indicted for the murder of a white girl. Sheriff Shamblin had heard that a mob was planning to break into the Tuscaloosa jail and lynch them next day. As he drove along, two carloads of armed men overtook him, demanded his prisoners. Sheriff Shamblin turned them over to the lynchers who disappeared into the night. Next day the bodies of two of the Negroes were found underneath...
...blamed last week's lynchings on the interference of the International Labor Defense. Two of its New York lawyers had been sent to help defend the Negroes. They were ruled out of court fortnight ago on the grounds that the prisoners had not retained them. So high ran mob feeling against the lawyers that it took a troop of guardsmen to get them out of Alabama alive. The International Labor Defense last week made public a telegram sent to Governor Miller, holding Judge Henry B. Foster and Sheriff Shamblin directly responsible for the lynching, said they could prove that...
Plunder & Death, Cautiously at first, then rapidly, joyously, riotously Havana's streets became full. With no soldiers to stop them this time, a swelling mob burst into the Palace, smashing, ransacking, pillaging "I've got Machado's sheets!" screamed a negress. Other mobsters tore the mosquito netting from the President's bed. Smarter thieves stole silverware and fine porcelain. The Presidential water filter attracted one patriot who wheeled it drunkenly away. Others threw avocados and oranges at tapestries and paintings. The sidewalks outside were littered ankle-deep with debris hurled from the windows...
...bench on the Prado. Two Porristas who bravely sought to rescue their leader were killed by the soldiers' fusillade. Lieut. Villalon drew his pistol, warily approached the bench. Standing his ground, he shot it out with Jiminez until the latter fell on his side, mortally wounded. The watching mob closed...
...just before Frank's scheduled execution. Governor John Marshall Slaton commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. A mob threatened the Governor's home. Martial law was declared. Troops were called out to save Governor Slaton from being torn limb from limb by citizens who charged he had been bribed with Jewish gold from New York to spare Frank's life. That commutation ruined Slaton's political career...