Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead of night, Jailer G. F. Dabbs answered a knock at his door. A mob of men threw a blanket over his head, took away his keys, locked him in a cell. In a caravan of automobiles, the men carried the Negro boys away into the night. When the sun came up, deputies found their bodies hanging from the trestle...
...clock that night, 100 men with rifles and shotguns swarmed outside the Laurel jail. Town authorities telephoned Governor Paul B. Johnson, outspoken opponent of mob violence. The Governor dispatched State police, two companies of State guards. He also called two Laurel ministers, asked them to try to stop the mob. But by the time ministers and militia arrived, it was too late. Next morning's sun showed the body of Howard Wash hanging from a bridge over Tallahoma Creek...
Fidgety, canny Roger Touhy, 45, sentenced to 99 years for the $70,000 kidnapping of Promoter John ("Jake the Barber") Factor in 1933, is one of the few real gangster toughies left. A runty guy (5 ft. 5, 139 lb.), he bossed the Capone-rivaling Touhy mob during Chicago's gory beer-war and kidnap-racket days, until sentence in 1934 cut him down. Slant-eyed Basil Banghart, 41, the Touhy mob's tommy-gunner, likewise was serving 99 years for the Factor job. Chicago detectives label him "a regular sharpie," tougher by far than Tough Touhy. Completely...
...could from the fact that his church once more (after a ten-year lapse) has a Presiding Patriarch. For this sole Mormon hereditary position the conference last week chose Joseph F. Smith, great-grandson of Founder Joseph Smith's brother Hyrum, who was killed by the same Illinois mob that lynched Joseph in 1844.* The new patriarch is 43, father of five, heads the University of Utah's phonetic department and is one of the best amateur actors in Salt Lake City. His patriarchal duties include pronouncing blessings upon the heads of church members...
Participants are to meet at Dunster House at 9 o'clock, then ride out to Brookline in a warm-up spin. The race will start from the corner of Chestnut Hill Avenue and Boylston Street at 9:30 o'clock and will end in the center of a mob of cheering females stationed in front of the Alumni Building at Wellesley, some 30 minutes later, after ten and a half miles of gruelling pedaling...