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...know it had occurred. Cord Cheek, 20, accused of raping an 11-year-old white girl, had been exonerated by a Grand Jury, had gone to visit relatives in Nashville. Twenty minutes after he arrived a mob seized him, carried him to Columbia, strung him up on a cedar limb after riddling his body with bullets. Before dispersing they telephoned the Sheriff to come and get him. Said the Sheriff after investigating: "The lynching was handled in a very quiet manner. We have no clues whatever." Governor Hill McAlister promptly posted a $1,000 reward for apprehension of the lynchers...
...rule centering around a dictum of the Prophet Hosea "I shall give them a king in my wrath." Gregory the Great, in his commentary on the Book of Job, insists that the ruler, whatever be his weight or fineness, must not only be supported, but reverenced as a limb of God. More, in his Regulae Pastoralis iii 4, he praises David's forbearance with Saul, and ordains that "admonendi sunt subditi, ne praepositorum suorum vitam temere judicent, si quid eos fortasse reprehensibiliter vident"; in hasty translation "subjects must be admonished not to judge rashly of the conduct of their rulers...
...annoying. There is a serious question whether the sleek and oleaginous vans of the carriage tradesman or the monstrous drays of the express companies threaten pensive scholar and woolgathering student the more. Perhaps the one, stalking in his quiet, feline approach, is the worse for life and limb, the other the more menacing to sanity as it honks and howls and rumbles and clatters. At any rate the intruders are a nuisance...
...just before Frank's scheduled execution. Governor John Marshall Slaton commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. A mob threatened the Governor's home. Martial law was declared. Troops were called out to save Governor Slaton from being torn limb from limb by citizens who charged he had been bribed with Jewish gold from New York to spare Frank's life. That commutation ruined Slaton's political career...
...Iowa, Bannery Shay Jr., protected by netting over his head and long gloves, set out to shoo a swarm of bees from a tree. A limb of the tree broke, carried the swarm to the ground. The queen bee, followed by others, crept up Shay's trouser-leg. He yanked the top of his trousers away from his middle, stood stock-still. The bees saw daylight, crawled out, buzzed away without stinging Bannery Shay...