Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1882 — JUDGE LYNCH’S WORK IN 1882. [ARTICLE]

JUDGE LYNCH’S WORK IN 1882.

During the year 1882 fifty-seven men were lynched in different parts of the country. All the victims were furnished by the West and Southwest, not a case of mob violence having occurred east of Ohio. The doubtful honors are shared about equally between the “Boundless West” and the “Sunny South,” twenty-eight cases of lynching being credited to the former and twenty-nine to the latter section. The record stands thus: Colorado u Dakota > Kent cky C Arizona ’ 2 L u siaua GWyom ng 2 ‘ cxu s, 5 Illinois 1 hen Mexico 3 Olii? 1 Alabama i Virginia W." 1 Arkansas UjSouth Carolina....”’ 1 Klundn alldaho 1 Indiana 2 Cal.fornia 1 Minnesota 2 T otal •••••• 57