Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pocomoke City, George Selby, another Negro, was picked up. Mindful of the nearby Princess Anne lynching in 1933, officers whisked Selby over the county line. Rumor flew that he had been jailed at Snow Hill too. Outside the little red brick building a mob began to gather. "Turn the damn niggers over to us!" they yelled. They pushed over a fence, surged up and pounded on the door...
...butt at his hip. It was a situation few sheriffs would like to face. But he faced it. "You've always known me to play fair with you boys," drawled he. "There's only two women in there." With calm deliberation he walked through the mob, got in a car, drove off. As he explained afterwards, he had been on duty 38 hours and he needed sleep...
Left to face the mob was Jailer Gerald Bowen, who decided that the best way to avoid trouble was to admit a few men to the jailhouse and let them see that Hall had told the truth. That was what he did. Still the mob did not disperse. Someone suggested that they get the women out and question them. They rushed to a window and began to hacksaw the bars. Inside, Lillian Blake and her daughter began to pray...
...County, sent Lieut. Ruxton Ridgely and Sergeant William H. Weber with orders to save the Negro women "at all costs." A member of Baltimore's exclusive Bachelors' Cotillion, twice married, good-looking Socialite Lieut. Ridgely spent his first honeymoon pursuing bootleggers, was famed for his exploits. No mob-fearer was Sergeant Weber, who was badly battered trying to stop the 1933 lynching. They flew to Salisbury, sped into Worcester County...
...leprous epidemic which is slowly killing off the human race. Dr. Galen lives in an unnamed dictatorship. When its dictator (Zdanek Stepanek) and his munitions manufacturer (Vaclav Vydra) contract the disease, Dr. Galen refuses to cure them unless they stop making wars. The manufacturer kills himself. A patriotic mob kills the doctor. Off goes the now incurable dictator to lead his troops-the leprous skeleton on horseback...