Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-12-31 | Page 6 | Mob Vengeance Lessens in 1920

MOB VENGEANCE LESSENS IN 1920 Sixty one Persons Lynched i During Year Compared to 83 in 1919 TUSKEGEE, Ala. Dec. 31 L.vnch-Ings L.vnch-Ings were tees numerous In 1820 than In 1919. according to records compiled; at Tuskegee institute and made public today Sfxty one persons. Including 8 white men, were lynched this year as empaled with v3 last year, and 04 Uli 1918, the statement said. In ?6 instances in 1920 officers of Hie law prevented lynchlngs, the re-! ports showed, ten of these instances being ii northern and 46 In southern) state" Armed force was used to repel would-le lynchers in 14 cases and In four f" these, mobs were fired upon, seven of the attackers having been hilled and a number wounded. i I f the t-l persons lynched. b2 were In the south and nine in the north and wcs;. One was a negro woman Eight-! ecu negroes lynched were charged with having attacked women. The offenses charged against the while men were: Murder, five Insulting women, one:j "no charge except belnn a foreigner" I one. killing officer of the Ian one. ' ifftcs charged ng.iftst negroes lynched Included: Murder five; killing kill-ing landlord six; insulting women two; knocking down guard, escaping from chain gang and then returning and surrendering wo; and one each of the following' .Tumping labor contract, i threatening to kill man; cutting man In fight; "for receiving stay of death tentence because another confessed crime;" "peeping through window at women", "insisting on voting." By states lyhcbingS occurred as fo!-, lows; Texas ten, Georgia, nine, Misfdvdp-J I pi, Alabama and Florida, seven each; Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and California three each; Arkansas Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, bln. South Carolina Virginia and West Virginia one e.n li oo