538 examples of lynched in sentences

During the summer of 1859 a man by the name of Jackson was lynched by a mob in Wright county, and Gov. Sibley called out the Pioneer Guards to proceed to the place where the lynching occurred and arrest all persons connected with the tragedy.

Not until Everest's body was brought back to the city jail was it discovered that the mob had lynched the wrong man.]

Before he was lynched in Butte, Frank Little had said, "I stand for the solidarity of labor."

; men have been beaten beneath them and lynched from their limbs.

Vanderveer offered to prove at the trial that Cunningham was at the jail when Wesley Everest was dragged out, brutally mutilated and then lynched.]

It was proved in court that the union men armed themselves at the very last moment, after everything else had failed and they had been left helpless to face the alternative of being driven out of town or being lynched.

He wore a khaki army coat above stagged overalls of a slightly darker shade,Wesley Everest, the ex-soldier who was shortly to be mutilated and lynched by the mob.

Everest was taken from this building to be lynched.

Incidentally Vanderveer offered to prove that Earl Craft, electrician in charge of the city lighting plant, had left the station at seven o'clock on Armistice day after securely locking the door; and that while Craft was away the lights of the city were turned off and Wesley Everest taken out and lynched.

The unrecognizable form was placed in a cell between two of the loggers who had loved the lynched boy as a comrade and a friend.

There are persistent rumors that more than one man was lynched on the eve of Armistice day.

It is believed by many that one of these men was lynched like Everest on the night of November 11th.

How'd I know why he turned me loose when he should of took me to Elkhead to be lynched by the mob there?

"Don't Morris's confession make no difference?" "Morris was lynched before he had a chance to swear to what he said in Dan's favour.

Let them understand that they will be caught [lynched] if they come among us, and they will take good heed to keep out of our way.

The same gentleman told me that he believed if a white man of any standing in society in New York were now to marry a coloured lady, however intelligent and accomplished, his life would be in danger,he would be lynched for having committed such an outrage upon "public opinion."

Two of the leading officers in the New Orleans police took two witnesses, while undergoing legal examination at Covington, near New Orleans, "carried them to a bye-place, and lynched them, during which inquisitorial operation, they divulged every thing to the officers, Messrs. Foyle and Crossman.

One of the missionaries said it would never do for him to go to America, for he should certainly be excommunicated by his Methodist brethren, and Lynched by the advocates of slaver.

For another case of lynching, which occurred in White County, Tennessee, in 1858, there is available merely the court record of a suit brought by the owners of the slave to recover pecuniary damages from those who had lynched him.

But the alleged instance of insensitiveness, where Mr Singh categorically stated that a recent much-publicised rape victim's hymen was intact, but possibility of a two-finger insertion was possible, was actually an issue that Mr Singh was wrongly lynched for.

He remembered old Tom Blue, the Texas Voodoo, who poisoned twenty-one people and came to life after the white men lynched him.

Among the most brutal white borderers a man would be instantly lynched if he practised on any creature the fiendish torture which in an Indian camp either attracts no notice at all, or else excites merely laughter.

Or "Vocalist Lynched at La Paz." I look for it oft and in vain and say, "Blow it!

Counties or cities are very generally made liable for damage to property done by mobs, and in some States for damage to life done by lynchers; the widow and children of the person lynched may recover damages.

There were not enough male residents to form a mob strong enough to lynch Casey, but there was one woman who had lost a sofa pillow and two lace curtains; Casey did not say much about her, but I gathered that he would as soon be lynched as remonstrated with again by that woman.

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