Paramount News Special: Hart Killer Lynchings (silent, 1933)

[Music] Thurman and Holmes confessed killers of brookheart have been lynched an angry mob swept on by the fury of self-appointed leaders have dragged them screaming from the San Jose jail in the park the yelling mob of 10,000 fights toward the improvised Gallows for a glimpse of the cut down bodies a page from medieval history young men leap up to rip branches off for souvenirs thousand shout as Sheriff's men remove the torn body The Cold Light of morning reveals the damaged prison where 500 outfought a handful of unarmed jailers the shattered window of Thurman cell Target of bricks and stones from his crown cell Thurman watched his approaching Doom the morning also finds a crowd still around and perfectly willing to show how they got to Thurman and homes using the same gaspipe battering [Applause] ram the Gallow spot a beautiful Park in the Heart of the City in press statements Governor R condones the lynching to the news res he says the people of California are Peaceable and law abiding citizens it's no wonder that they were so aroused at the kidnapping and the murdering of this young man that they momentarily forgot themselves and was determined to give notice to the world that kidnapping and the murders which follow it would not be tolerated in this state in Salsbury Maryland 24 hours after Governor R's statement another determined mob clashed with Soldiers the state militia had arrested four suspects in a mold lynching after County authorities had refused to act The Angry Crowd tried to prevent the arrests and turned their fury on reporters and cameramen who took to the air the Maryland arrests bring in to focus the question mob law or the law of the land