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...South Carolina. Allen Green, black and 50, was suspected of raping an 18-year-old white woman, was held in the Oconee County jail at Walhalla. At midnight a masked mob of several hundred men and boys broke into the jail. Sheriff John Thomas tried to fight them off, to protect his prisoner. He was bashed over the head, had his skull fractured. The lynchers whisked Green three miles out of town by motor, tied him to a tree, tore his body to shreds with bullets...
...Albany, N. Y., traffic was halted while Patrolman Henry Kasten pursued a skittering white rat around corners, under the wheels of vehicles. Captured, the rat was put in a shoebox, locked up in jail...
...Eureka, Calif., Indian Jonas Grant, 19, was arrested for robbing and setting fire to the home of Charles Marsh. Jonas Grant said that he had committed arson in order to awaken the victims of his robbery, so they would be sure to send him to jail. He explained that he had been unable to make the Redwood Creek baseball team, that an ex-convict had told him the San Quentin prison team was one of the best in the state...
...Foster and four aids who led the Communist demonstrations in Manhattan last month (TIME, March 17) were found guilty last week of the crime of ''unlawful assembly," were clapped into a Manhattan jail to await sentences which may run as high as $500 fine and three years' imprisonment each...
...Fields, to prospect for gold and inspect a zinc property. A week later Interpreter Fields galloped into the dusty, desolate village of Ahuacatlan with a scribbled message. Prospector Bristow had been captured by Cruz Delgado, was held for $15,000 ransom. The Mexican police instantly clapped Interpreter Fields into jail...