Show I I I REPORTED IN 1920 Alaba Alabama a Experiences but Sixty One Cases in Year TUSK GEE EE Ala Dec ec 31 Lynch Lynch Lynch- Ings we less ess numerous In 1920 than thanin in 1919 a according to records compiled at institute and made public today SI one one y-one persons Including eight men were lynched this year as c compared pared with three eighty last year and d sixty-four sixty In 1918 the statement aid In six instances in 1920 officers of ot the law prevented the showed reports reports showed ten of these Instances being In in Northern and six forty-six in Southern states stales Armed force torce was used to repel In fourteen cases and In four of these mobs were fired upon seven of the attackers having having- been Killed and a number wounded O Of these sixty-one sixty persons lynched two fifty-two were In the South and nine in tho North and West Vest One was a negro woman Eighteen negroes lynched were charged char with having at attacked attacked attacked at- at tacked women The offenses charged against the white men were Murder 6 a insulting woman 1 no charge ex except ex- ex c pt being a foreigner 1 l killing officer ceI of the law 1 I Murder 5 6 killing landlords 6 In Insulting Insulting In- In suiting women 2 knocking down guard escaping from chain gang and then returning and surrendering 2 and one ono each of the tho following JumpIng JumpIng Jumping Jump- Jump Ing labor contract threatening to kill killman killman man cuttin in fight for receivIng receiving receiving ing stay of death sentence because an another another another an- an other confessed crime peeping through window at woman insisting on voting By Dy states occurred as follows fol tol- lows Texas 10 Georgia 0 it Mississippi Alabama and I Florida lorida 7 each Minnesota Minnesota Minne Minne- sota Rota North Carolina Oklahoma and California 3 each Arkansas Kansas Illinois Kentucky Missouri l Ohio South Routh Carolina Virginia and West Virginia 1 each |