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J. Thomas Shipp and Abraham S. Smith were African-American men who were murdered in a spectacle lynching by a group of thousands on August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana. They were taken from jail cells, beaten, and hanged from a tree in the county courthouse square. They had been arrested that night as suspects in a robbery, murder and rape case.
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Chapman was known as the "Count of Gramercy Park", and was convicted of several robberies and murders. Eventually considered one of America's top-10 criminals, Chapman was convicted of the murder of police officer James Skelly. He was sentenced to hang and was executed on April 6, 1926. [2] [5] [6] John Paul Chase: 1901–1973
However, he is later indicted by New York District Attorney Thomas Dewey and extradited to New York where he is charged and later executed for murder. September 6 – New York racketeer Irving "Puggy" Feinstein is murdered by members of Murder, Inc., including Abe Reles and Harry Maione, after being tied to a chair and burned to death.
In the song, he warns "colored" people to watch out if they go to Alabama, saying that "the man gonna get ya", and that the "Scottsboro boys [will] tell ya what it's all about." In a spoken afterword to the 1938 recording of that song, [ 142 ] Lead Belly warns people to "stay woke " when going through that area, which may be the first recorded ...
On August 30, 1928, Panzram was arrested in Baltimore for a Washington, D.C. burglary – stealing a radio and jewelry from the home of a dentist on August 20. Three men were also arrested as accomplices and most of the jewelry was recovered. Panzram gave his correct name, although he lied by claiming his age as 41 and that he was from Nevada. [33]
A Maryland man walked into a Baltimore police station and confessed to two murders he said he committed over a decade ago, according to the city’s police department. Scott Barnett, 45, entered ...
The "Dirty 30" were mostly stationed at the 30th Precinct in Harlem, Upper Manhattan. At the time, the area was known as the “cocaine capital of the world” to locals and law enforcement. [ 3 ] Police corruption was extremely high around this time, and the Mollen Commission was created to help investigate and eradicate corruption within the ...