Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon, a 30-man mob assembled in the reformatory yard. A stout rope was thrown over a low-hanging limb. James Scales, taut with fear, was dragged atop an empty oil drum. Suddenly Superintendent Neil, in the immemorial gesture of all Southern peace officers, shouted: "I don't want anything like that done here." Then he ducked. As the shotguns blasted, James Scales fell, his head and back studded with lead...
With the lynching of James Scales, the 1944 U.S. score rose to two: Mississippians had already lynched one. In 1943, there were three lynchings. The U.S. could not yet boast of a year without mob violence. But in four decades the record had improved. Between 1900 and 1941, the nation had 4,699 lynchings* on its conscience-more than 100 a year...
They escaped, but from the three in custody, Allied authorities collected names, addresses, information. Police dropped in on a Rome cafe just as the mob was driving away with an Italian civilian who had been acting as their fence. They had marked him down as a stool pigeon and were taking him for a ride. Police captured them...
...mob were another Canadian, five more U.S. soldiers. Three days later, after routine detective work, a police net dragged in the mob leader: a 23-year-old U.S. soldier from the State of Pennsylvania, identified only by an alias "Robert Lane...
Crime-U.S. Style. The second Canadian and his U.S. partner were also deserters and were VD cases to boot. They were marched off to a hospital. In the best Hollywood mobster style, pals tried to rescue them. Disguised as MPs, armed with submachine guns, the mob might have succeeded if real MPs had not scared them...