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Lynching of Lloyd Warner, St. Joseph News-Press, November 29, 1933Entry/Object ID
AM2012.29.1Scope and Content
Lynching of Lloyd Warner, November 29, 1933, St. Joseph News-Press Newspaper. Entire issue from the day after the lynching of a 19-year-old black youth, held at the Buchanan County Jail on charges of alleged rape of a white girl. A mob that eventually numbered 5000 assembled, ordered the sheriff to release the black man. They were forcibly entering the jail and had confiscated and made ineffective tanks sent by the Governor. Tear gas shells used by the sheriff did not avert the crowd. Another 11 black men were in the jail. Rather than have all these prisoners subject to the mob, after much delaying and counter measures, the sheriff turned Warner over to the mob, who brutally tortured, killed, and hung him, then burned his body in the street outside the courthouse. Photographs on Page 2.
News stories on the Front Page include
--Mob Hangs Attached After Siege at Jail, "Lloyd Warner, Negor, Is Put to Death at Fifth & Jule Streets in View of 5000."
--Gaddy is Silent on Lynching, "Speculation as to Whether Coming Grand Jury Will Investigate Hanging of Negro Last Night"
---Thiesen Says He Tried His Best to Uphold His Oath, "Protected Prisoner Until Mob Got Upper Hand, Sheriff Relates after Lynching"
--State Will Investigate Mob Action, "Governor Park and Attorney General McKittick United in Announcing Thorough Probe"
---Warner Probably Unconscious When Taken from Jail, "Reporter Believes NEgorg's Treatment When First Seized Left Him Stunned"
Page 2
---Very Small Number Did the Actual Job, "Not More than Fifty Attended Lynching Last Night in Any Role Other Than That of Sightseer"
---Pictures in Connection with Last Night's Lynching
--His Victim "Sorry", Girl Didn't Want Warner to be Lynched".Lexicon
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