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...Mississippi hangings are generally held at noon but to avoid a mob scene ten trucks loaded with guardsmen left Jackson before midnight to carry the three prisoners back to Hernando and to death. At 4:30 in the morning the three Negroes stood in the Hernando jail under garish electric lights, praying aloud while the gallows was made ready. Father Collins, a favored spectator, stood beside Sheriff Roscoe Lauderdale. In the hall below the trap through which the bodies would fall were about 150 Hernandoans who did not mind getting up early for such an occasion. As the noose...
There was danger of a lynching at Hernando, Miss, a month ago when three black bucks were put on trial for raping a 16-year-old school girl. Mississippi's Adjutant General Thomas Grayson thought he saw a way to avoid it. He asked the father of the girl to write a note to the mob. Clyde Collins ''consented with reluctance to let the law take its course,'' asked the mob to disperse. Short time later the Negroes were convicted, sentenced to hang...
...give Father Collins his reward. By a vote of 19 to 16 the Senate passed a bill authorizing the county sheriff to appoint him hangman at the execution of the Negroes this week. The Senator who introduced it explained that the bill was meant to apply only to the Hernando case, that he would move its repeal the day after Special Hangman Collins springs the trap...
...chanted: "Take a magic key and win a Studebaker-given away every day." On the first day the Studebaker queen was panic-stricken when her royal robes became unhooked in the back. De Soto put on a marionet shew, depicting the history of transportation since the birth of Hernando De Soto, Spanish explorer. Hudson's Terraplane offered spectators playlets including one involving an ingenue, her weary mother, a Terraplane salesman and a policeman with the loudest voice at the Show. Two girls on a turntable spent their hours and days climbing in & out of a Chrysler. Packard boasted...
...news sent gold hunters dashing for Oaxaca. Everyone in Mexico knows that Hernando Cortes and his rough Spaniards, although they accumulated shiploads of wrought Indian gold, took only a fraction of the Mexican treasures. Priests and courtiers dumped roomfuls of gold into lakes, pitched them into caverns and crevices, plugged them in tombs. Four centuries of riflings have not found all the caches...