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PRINCESS ANNE, Md., Oct. 2 6 - E . G. Young, f0ffJi:3nder of the L. Creston Beauchamp Post of the

,an Legion, who had 350 Legionnaires under his '•nand, refused, a request "of Governor Ritchie to

brins mt h i 3 m e a a n d t r y fco s t o p t h e m o i K H e s a i d t h e

yJJn was not a military organisation, and added: •4". Legion will come out to protect the men, women «<} children of Maryland, but not a Negro."

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T0i WIV—No. 43 T O T T S B U R G S I S . . SATUBDAY^OCIOBER 38, 1933

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"Cracker" Jury And Scene Of Burning Of George Armwood ptpb Dwelt

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J - E - M o r r t * J . B . f le i i i lnf A. B. Fi tzgerald B . M.Carey T. Shanley Ford Wm. H. Thompson Henry Miller

MOB OF 1,000 STAGES ANOTHER VICIOUS "ROMAN HOLIDAY" AS THEY BREAK INTO JAIL, LYNCH SUSPECT AND THEN BURN HIS BODY IN ALCOHOL 25 State Troopers, On Guard, Fail To Fire Their Guns As Blood Lust

Rules Princess Anne—"A Throw Back To Barbarity." T _ _

» (By Staff Correspondent) PRINCESS ANNE, Md., Oct 26—They lynched George Armwood, a mental defective, here last Wed­

nesday night, while 25 State troopers, stationed before Somerset County jail failed to fire a shotl • And today, almost a week later, no arrests have been made, and Maryland's latest atrocity, which has

once again disgraced American civilization, threatens to be relegated into the limbo of forgotten deeds. There have been charges and counter-charges. Ministers have denounced the "Red Wednesday." But

- • the lynching of that mental defective, the twenty-first of the year, has some peculiar angles.

AND THEY DIDN'T FIRE A SHOT! -Armwood had been imprisoned in Baltimore. Last Tues­

day he was sent back to Princess Anne, on the Eastern shore of Maryland . . . sent back to the "rebel" town which just two years ago had brutally lynched Matthew Williams . . . sent back to a town seething with race hatred and the lust to lynch. .,

All day Wednesday the mob-spirit ran high. The Gov­ernor was informed by Baltimore dailies of the spirit of unrest . Judge Rober t F . Duer, w h o * - — later listened to a football game as repor ters questioned him about the

NSPIRACYOF SILENCE IN MD.

HING ORGY PRINCESS ANNE, Md., Oct. 26—Formal investigation

of the lynching of. George Armwood, 22-year-old alleged at­tacker of a 71-year-old white woman last Wednesday, got under way on Monday, when officials questioned persons said to have been eye-witnesses. Efforts to make identification of participants in the killing were greatly hampered by the

, *<^"conspiracy of silence" which has veiled this little Eastern Shore vil-

Faces Show In Three Quarter Stretch Of Contest

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UEL LEE IS SAVED AGAIN B-l-L-L-E-T-I-N!

BALTIMORE—After a year 's le­gal battle a t torneys for Euel L«e sentenced to die FHda>, won a h i r ­ing in Federal Court in their fight for a new trial for the doomed •man.

By IH'TTON FERGUSON BALTIMORE. ,Oc t . 26 — While

Maryland officials held a series of conferences last F r iday to map rhe course of an Invest igat ion of the ho rnb . e lynching of Geor'ge Aimwood at Pr incess Anne last Wednesday night, Warden Pa t r i ck J. Brady of the Maryland State Pen i t en t i a ry made preparation." to hang Euel -Lee on Fr iday Of '.his week.

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lage of about 1,000 in population John B. Robins, State 's a t torney

for Somerset county, and Attorney General William Pres ton Lane J r . have charge of the inquiry.

Aside from the "conspiracy of silence," it has been already point­ed out tha t fully 3.000 persons com- ! ing from other Maryland counties, | portions of Virginia and Delaware, I

atrocity, knew of the determinat ion of the mob. He was called by Gov­ernor Ritchie several times. He as­sured him t h a t th«re was nothing.; to fear. Judge* i j ue r , ^ ' s o u t h e r n ] type called "colonel" in the old days, had a dinner engagement , and I such a thing as the life of a Ne-gro, especially one who had been accused of raping a 71 year old white woman, was of no impor-1 tance.

State 's Attorney John B . Robins j of Somerset County, who demanded the change be made because grand jury action was expected soon, also is "on the spot."

Both of these men, It is said, ! thought that 25 or 30 State t roop- ' ers, armed with tear bombs and heavy service revolvers, should be able to hold off a mob.

But ' when the mob came charg- i

^ iint;. J u r y m a n fc»k I> L*>Held. Jury Fode-man

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p Watson of Cincin-irmidable s ' r "ngth in

, ! ML--s Hardy With the end of the three-quarter stretch in sight, the; Mrs. LaVem

, B t " ; 9 . t s i n T h e Pittsburgh Courier's Sixth and Greatest nati shows f, C o n t e s t a n t s i n t n e C i l u s u u \f .** ' , f h f w h a t the third r'.ace and Mrs M?r;e C

Popularity Contest are rushing 0:1 to fe\er heat \\tizi H a m i ; t o I *d , r p ; b a r k tc -our th

•.. rare' N'ew fac- s showing in every circle 01 tne iracK . . . posl t iori after maintaining the i°sd m j « f new records being achieved . . . new enthusiasm, new pep to ! .„ ... , ,. »•„ ... -

The Accused ™*eit the mok ^ c c e s s f u i > d •*»«***c6ntest ™± :s Miss Nellie # - H — !

1 ' T J In tuskezee waged.

The newest face E. Hardy of Piney Wood*. M.M, ^ W:,.. shot into place on » t . Thuxs- ^ ^ r e t n , t e s h e r positior and ,

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M O N T G O M E R Y , A l a . , O c t | • « aside the death verdict for Hey-1 torn O r ^ Y ^ e n ^ r e l r a ^ a U c ' l e g a l j w o o d P a t t e r s . , one of the d.fend-2 6 — W h e n m e ur«* » * grounds that the evi-b a t t l e t o S a v e t h e S ° ^ ; d , n r e w a g n o l s u f f l c i e „ t to . a r r a n t

nine condemned fccottsb >ro, s e n t p n c e b o v S r e o p e n s OH N o v e m p e r j M e a n w r , i l e , the nine youthful vic-: 'T a n e w j u d g e — W . M . C a l - tim.5 of Alabama's ' vicious system laham-wiSl sit upon the bench. I o f - just ice" are still confined in ^ ' ' „ r . , H i n * iurist will *uc- a ' d i m p . dreary Jefferson county

• and a c t l . t t l T h . n e w P r ^ " g J Horton who P r , o n as the prejudiced Sta te At­tn* of his death.-* cee<l J u a g e J a m e s K. " o r w n - J ; , . — —

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leusly to sustain ' death which has been d<»c them.

Upon his ret tun from where he conferred with the new and the re-ir.r.g trial judges, 'Knight declaieJ ' ha t he would

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CHICAGO, Dh, Oct. 2fi—Joseph Brown told Judge Jay A. Schiller in Wabash Avenue court Tuesday ' ha t his Wife, Rose, had tricked him into marry ing her. Mrs. Brown is a spiritualist.

Mr. Brown claimed that while he was "sweetjhearting" with her, she had rubbed! him all over with vari­ous ointments , then had led inm to the licelnse bureau, obtained a license and! marr ied hrm. He is a disabled war veteran.

Mrs. Brown claimed that her Mis-band took the money she earned and spent It on "young gals" and now wanted to leave her because she was soon to become a. mother. She asked tha t he be commiUed to an asylum fo r the insane.

and "par ts unknown," part icipated in last Wednesday's outrage. I t is held that this will add to the diffi­culties of the Maryland officials.

Eye \Vitn(?«5es Named On last Sunday Luther Dougher­

ty, sheriff of Somerset county, spent the day a t tempt ing to ga ther names of eye-witnesses to the Inyching He turned these names over to Bal­t imore police, who arrived here early Monday of this week. Ma­chinery" was put into operation to trace the names.

It was said tha t the eye-wit­nesses' names have been obtained by Sheriff Dougherty from State police, who at tempted to prevent the mob from bat ter ing down the iron door of the jail a t the time Armwood was dragged from his cell.

Protes ts began pouring into the Balt imore and Annapolis offices of Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, immediately following th« first flashes of the news of the horrible crime to the outside world. Persons from every type of organ­ization, from every color and creed added to the volumes of protests and demands tor a clean and thor­ough investigation.

Armed Tolice "Overpowered" Accused of a t tack ing Mary Den-

ston, 71-year-old woman, George Armwood was dragged from the Somerset county jail last Wednes­day by a mcb of 3,000 men, women and children and was lynched.

ing down the street, and tear bombs failed to halt them, the state troop­ers failed to Are a shot. ' Following the tragedy, Colonel Baughman, head of i h e Maryland stalte police, made a mathemat ica l calculation, in which he praised the men for "failing to fire." •*

Said he: l£ thir ty s ta te policemen drew their revolvers and each fired six t imes Into this mob, a total of

i 180 shots would have been fired by the state police. If we assume tha t each shot found a fatal target, and tha t the mob did nothing in the meantime, 180 men, women and children would have been killed.

Judge Listening to Grid Game Broadcast,

Shuns LynekQneries

P R I N C E S S ANNE, Md., Oct. 26—When approached in connect ion with the gruesom^e local lynching orgy, Judge Duer also refused to com­ment on t h e case.

This af ternoon, however , Judge Duer was seen. Sit­t ing in a rocking chai r in t he bay window of his living room, he was l i s tening to radio b roadcas t s of var ious football games .

Questioned in rega rd to the lynching ca«e. Judge Duer sa id :

"Do you w a n t to listen to these games or to ask ques­t ions? I want to listen to the games."

Not once did the jur is t an­swer a single quret ion asked him in rega rd to the lynch­ing. He did reveai t h a t he had played football while a t ­tending college and was still in teres ted in it.

s t ruct ions on to Capta in Johnson. Unfortunately, the local authori t ies refused to release their prisoner. There is no law tha t gave us the authori ty to bring Armwood Into Balt imore without this permission,

think Captain Johnson and his With their revolvers empty the 30; men used cool judgment In the face s ta te policemen would have been | of a grave emergency. Too much powerless before the remaining ap­proximately 1,000 rioters. Then 30 state policemen would have died. Mob psychology is li^ce quicksilver.

Governor Ritchie wanted Arm-wood removed to Balt imore. He so informed me and I passed his in-

blood was shed In Princess Anne Wednesday night. To have shed more in vain, and to have had a long death ll3t result ing from this unfor tunate affair, would, I am sure, have been justly condemned by the people of Maryland.

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THE BINGA DISM0NDS PLAN DIVORCE, SAY

N E W YORK, Oct. 26— CANP)— Social circles in this metropol is and for tha t m a t t e r New Yorkers generally, will be shocked a t the more or less exclusive informa­tion hera lded in this d ispatch . The widely known beautiful and popular Gera ld ine (Ter ry to h e r in t imates) Diamond and he r hus­band, Dr . H. Binga Dismond, have agreed to sepa r t e and a re a t this t ime a r r a n g i n g a Mexican divorce1.

PEOPLE OF TOWN LAUGH AS THEY DISCUSS HORROR

PRINCESS ANNE, Md., Oct. 26—Weird hilarity and jocular utterances marked the universal discussion of the horrible lynching of George Armwood among the many groups on the street corners of this quaint old "cracker" town Thursday morning.

Comments which bordered from the inhumane to the ridiculous were heard here and<$ there, discussing the uncanny and , c o s t u s 75*Cents," gruesome inc iden t "Well," ob- Interspers ing the calm and heart-served one citizen, smoking a stogie ; less discussion of the murderous in front of the Washington Hotel, j orgy, men here and there displayed "it would have cost the state $1,000,1 I guess, to hang tha t man. I t only j (Continued on Page FourJ

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fond has to deal with is not the criminality &f men whose fury —

n and on occasion a seething spirit of revolt very conception of the State and its lega* Pi°c-iawiessness of a

understood'and. given the right sort of determination, could be got at and stamped out. But the lawlessness of whole

^ „.JV - .. , sections of the population is another matter. The Princess wa* aroused bv a terrible j Anne rvrcching is more than an.individual crime. It is more

'" "mob crime. It is a. community crime in which the than a

s h a , . One has only to read the facts to understand that. The

assault on the jail was so fierce that more than a score of policemen wTere thrust aside, beaten into insensibility and helplessness. The stripping of the Negro prisoner; the drag-than a niOO Clime. Xt ia a. l,uimimmt.| v-nm^ iii . »xin..u tilt i iiv iv.a*3»J|v~«j. —v- r r . . _ _ - „ + . i _ L-f

""" -ZTTZZa iV« \^A m-oc- Dassions of women and children as well as men united in a \ ging of him. a rope around his neck", through the streets oi f the State » n £ wMeg*pioc g ^ ^ o i J b a r b a r i t t h a t w o u l d t n a k e d s a v to the town; the attack of th'e Bans-culottes who beat him, small group coma at iwu ** •-*»• - ; t

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knocked him unconscious, cut off his ear; the hanging of the nude body to a tree adjacent to the yard of a judge who sought to restrain the mob; the burning of the dead body in the town square; the presence of women and of young­sters in their, teens, and the scramble for sections,; of the rope as souvenirs—all these build up a story that oan only be* explained on the basis of the community's going mad.

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