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...lynching which overtook the murderers of Brooke Hart. Of course, the case was unusual in that it involved no race or class prejudice; it is also to be remembered that the discovery of Hart's body corroborated the confession of the two prisoners. But in making his statement Governor Rolph showed his understanding of one significant fact. The lynching was not simply an act of vengeance, it was a contemptuous dismissal of lawyer-made criminal law; the mob showed its impatience with a legal procedure that makes criminals odds-on favorites over this law with encouraging vigor and finality...
...Governor Rolph realizes this, and was not advocating lynch law. A keen observer of popular trends, he was praising a spectacular demonstration of rising public intolerance with an emasculated system of criminal law. The lynching was a challenge to the legal fraternity. It gave them a glimpse of what failure to reform will lead to. It was a crude symptom of a state of intolerance of wrong, an intolerance against ineffectuality on the part of a mechanism originally established for the public good but reduced by changing conditions and technicalities to a mockery...
Died, Robert C. Reid, 50, San Francisco businessman, brother-in-law of Governor James Rolph Jr. of California; when he leaped 14 stories from San Francisco's Balfour Building. He left a note: "I have felt my brain deteriorating...
...Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodan, 71, Britain's Wartime Foreign Secretary, gravely, of heart disease, in Christen Bank, Northumberland; California's Governor James Rolph Jr., of congestion of the lungs and high fever, in San Francisco; Betty Compton Walker, of colitis, in Evian-les-Bains, France; Actress Tallulah Bankhead, of acute abdominal trouble, in Manhattan; Valerie Marguerite Germonpres von Stroheim, third wife of Film Director Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Nordenwall von Stroheim, of burns about the head and shoulders and seared lungs when a hair-drying machine in a beauty shop ignited, in Hollywood...
...Barbary Coast was doomed in 1911 when California's present Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. began his first of five terms as San Francisco's mayor. The actual knockdown punch was dealt by Hearst's San Francisco Examiner in a typically furious crusade. The conp-de-grâce came in 1917 when the State Supreme Court upheld a Red-light Abate ment Act, permitting the city to proceed in civil court against owners of property used for immoral purposes. For a few gloomy years "the Coast" tried to subsist on tourist trade by pretending...