Word: neale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invited out to George Cannidy's place for a lynching. Someone had dragged Farmer Cannidy's young daughter Lola out across his cotton patch, raped her near a pigsty, bashed in her head and left her under some pine boughs for dead. A Negro buck named Claude Neal had been arrested for the crime, lodged for safe keeping in a jail across the Alabama line at Brewton. One hundred Floridians had driven over to Brewton and without much fuss removed Claude Neal from the jail...
...lynching committee" of six, 5,000 men, women and children choked the front yard of the Cannidy place, overflowed into the cotton field where bonfires were lighted. The Cannidys had prepared some sharp sticks and whetted their knives in anticipation of the revenge they would take on Negro Neal. A man said to be a Florida legislator got up and amused the crowd with a funny speech as it waited for the spectacle. It was nearly midnight when one of the "lynching committee" appeared to announce that he feared violence with so many people around; there would be no show...
...pumped a few slugs into the lifeless blackamoor. Then the corpse was taken into Marianna, the county seat, hung up in front of the courthouse. The dirty work of cutting it down went to the county sheriff. National Guardsmen arrived, as usual, too late to do Claude Neal any good...
...Donald Neal McKay, aged 16, of Fort Snelling, Minn., graduate of Roosevelt High School, Minneapolis. McKay is the son of Major William G. McKay, surgeon to the U. S. Army stationed at Fort Snelling. McKay was admitted to Harvard under the honor plan, without examination. He had the highest scholastic average in his class at Roosevelt High, was co-captain of the swimming team, and was a leader on school committees and school publications. His mother was a high school teacher, and his grandfather a professor at Ames, Ia. He wants to become an army officer...
...which confers long-time immunity. Likewise did his chief. Dr. William Hallock Park, 72, whom New York City is retaining as director of the Department of Health's bureau of laboratories although he is beyond the retirement age. Likewise did Dr. Brodie's colleague Dr. Josephine Bicknell Neal, 54. and Dr. Henry Wirt Jackson, 48, and Technicians Judith Figarsky, 24, and Anne Goldberg...