Lynch-law; an investigation into the history of lynching in the United States

by James Elbert Cutler

[1]. Compare statement by William Roberts in Fortnightly Review, January, 1892 (57: 92).

[2]. The Times, Washington, D. C., Dec. 14, 1902.

[3]. The Standard Union, Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1902.

[4]. The New York Evening Telegraph, Oct. 8, 1902.

[5]. See F. Ratzel: “History of Mankind” (trans. by A. J. Butler), I, 125, 281, 282; II, 131; III, 507.

[6]. See “Fehmic courts,” Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th edition.

[7]. Edward Phillips: “The New World of Words, or a General English Dictionary” (1678, 4th edition).

[8]. Grose’s “Provincial Glossary” (London, 1811), p. 163.

[9]. See “Lynch Law,” International Cyclopædia (1893).

[10]. See Century Dictionary under “Law.”