2. Have any cases been tried under any of such laws or any attempts been made to that effect, and what has been the record and the outcome in each case?
3. Are such laws effective in any respect?
Twenty-four replies were received to the thirty-three letters sent, and upon examination a fact became evident which is probably rather more than a coincidence—the nine unanswered letters were the ones which were sent to the attorneys-general of the States, with one exception, in which the greater number of lynchings have occurred. The exception is scarcely worth noting, however, because it was a reply which was very tardy and very non-committal.
[302]. Brown v. Orangeburg Co., 55 S. C. 45; 32 S. E. 764. The decision of the Supreme Court was rendered on April 20, 1899.
[304]. Mitchell was a negro and was lynched on June 4, 1897, for the crime of rape.
[305]. Caldwell lost again in the common pleas and circuit courts, and went no further.—Deputy Clerk of Cuyahoga County in letter to the writer.
[306]. See note, p. [236]. The supreme court by this decision upheld the act in its original form.
[307]. 62 O. S. 318.