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Night at Charlie's. One evening, a fortnight ago, the Grand Dragon of the South Carolina Klan, a Leesville (S.C.) grocer named Thomas L. Hamilton, assembled a mob of his men on a road near Myrtle Beach. With an electrically lighted cross shining on the lead car, 26 automobile loads of Kluxers rolled through the Negro section of town. Most of the colored population was terrified, but one bold Negro telephoned the police that there would be bloodshed if the Klan came back...
Someone relayed the warning to the Kluxers. They raced back into town and headed straight for Charlie's place. His customers bolted out rear doors and windows. Charlie himself stood stubbornly in the doorway, holding a pistol, as the hooded mob ran toward him. But he did not shoot. A Klansman wrested the weapon from him; he was beaten within an inch of his life, one of his ears was notched with a knife, and he was stuffed into the trunk of one of the cars. The mob smashed his furniture, and then shot up his "casino" with pistol...
...Conway, S.C. policeman named James Daniel Johnston-who had just pulled his Klan robe on over his uniform before joining the mob-was hit in the back by a stray bullet. His fellow Kluxers hurriedly abandoned him, dumped Charlie out at the side of a road and vanished...
...Lawless. A lowbudget, high-voltage treatment of mob violence in a small U.S. town; with Macdonald Carey and Gail Russell (TIME, July...
...Saturday night, Yugoslav residents streamed toward the line. They came in trains, trucks, horsecars and on bicycles-some with permits, most without. When the barrier finally went up on Sunday morning, a mob of 5,000 enthusiastic residents of the Yugoslav zone stormed into Italian Gorizia...