[318]. A woman whose husband was hanged by a mob has recently filed suit against twenty-six “prominent citizens” of Fleming County, Kentucky, for $50,000 damages, claiming that they were members of the mob which lynched her husband.—New York Times, July 14, 1904.
[319]. Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times, July 27, 1902. It will be remembered that by the Tennessee act any person guilty of direct or indirect participation in a lynching was declared to be incompetent to serve on a jury, and that the court was to carefully exclude all such persons from both grand and petit juries. See p. [237].
[320]. Despatch from Lewisburg, Tennessee, in New York Commercial Advertiser, Jan. 8, 1903.
In October, 1903, a grand jury in Moore County, Tennessee, indicted twenty-two members of a lynching mob.—See Outlook, Oct. 24, 1903 (75: 427).
[321]. Atlantic Monthly, February, 1904 (93: 155).
[322]. See bills introduced during 57th Congress, 1st Session: Senate Bill 1117; House bills 21, 4572.
[323]. Congressional Record, 57th Congress, 1st Session, p. 636.
[324]. See Green Bag, September, 1900 (12: 466).
[325]. New York Tribune, April 15, 1892.
[326]. Some of these indemnities cover loss of property and bodily injuries as well as loss of life.