Royce Brier

Name: Kidnapers Lynched!
Author: Royce Brier

Kidnapers Lynched! (1933)

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“Kidnapers Lynched!”, published in 1933, is a work by Royce Brier. It explores elements such as Thurmond, mob and jail.

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Royce Brier, Kidnapers Lynched! (1933)

“ Thurmond was virtually unconscious with terror as the mob hustled him from the jail, down the alley and across the street to his doom.
Great cheers from the crowd of onlookers accompanied the hoisting of the two slayers. Some women fainted, some were shielded from the sight by their escorts, but the gamut of human nature was here in the park. Old women with graying hair and benign faces expressing satisfaction at the quick end of the murderers, and young women with hardened faces broke down and wept. ”

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Royce Brier, Kidnapers Lynched! (1933)

“ The cops are coming!" galvanized the mob and the leaders to more strenuous efforts, still the bricks beat like an interminable tropic rain on the jail walls and bars and the steel door. Still the scene was plunged in darkness, blue darkness in which the slowly drifting smoke of the tear gas seemed to take the reflection from the very sky. ”

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Royce Brier, Kidnapers Lynched! (1933)

“ Several men started climbing trees, and every man was given a cheer. The light was dim in the park, but there were a couple of arc lights and hundreds of flash lights.
Mob cheers hanging
After a delay of almost fifteen minutes, ropes were produced, and Thurmond, who was at the south end of the park, was the first man to be hanged. He was benumbed with fear, and his crazed mutterings were without meaning.
Thurmond was hanged to a low limb. As his body was slowly hoisted, the crowd broke into frantic cheering. Some one in that crowd must have had the technique of hangman's knots. ”

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Royce Brier, Kidnapers Lynched! (1933)

“ Here is part of the mob that was law in San Jose last night. The picture was snapped after the door of the County Jail had been battered in and throngs rushed over the threshold to force their way up the stairs, seize Jack Holmes and Thomas Thurmond, and drag them across the street to the park to be hanged.
Violence begins
It was shortly before 9 o'clock that the front line at the barricade made its first move of violence. Ten or 15 patrolmen and deputies were against the barricade, which was not more than 30 feet from the jail door. ”

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Royce Brier, Kidnapers Lynched! (1933)

“ The leaders leaned as they strained at the great pipe, and in the darkness lunged at the door again. This time the double door gave way. It gave way with a tremendous crash, which stirred an entire block to frenzy. ”

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Royce Brier, Kidnapers Lynched! (1933)

“ Out of the darkness leaped another sound, the ominous sound of the iron pipe battering ram made con the steel door. Cheers, cheers, cheers, and more blasting of the tear gas bombs, more staggering back by the men who held the ram.
Somebody said help is coming. San Francisco's and Oakland's inexhaustible supply of peace officers were speeding this way in automobiles and on motorcycles.
'Get 'em! Get 'em!'
Armed with gas. more gas, and more gas, armed with riot guns. ”

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Royce Brier, Kidnapers Lynched! (1933)

“ The longest-living author of this work died in 1975, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 48 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
It is imperative that contributors search the renewal databases and ascertain that there is no evidence of a copyright renewal before using this license. Failure to do so will result in the deletion of the work as a copyright violation. ”

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Royce Brier, Kidnapers Lynched! (1933)

“ The officers fired out the side windows and even sent a bomb out the front window of the Courthouse, but the crowd seemed to survive this gas, and went about choking and exceedingly interested.
The leaders in the front line trenches, so to speak, most of them boys between 18 and 23, were not dispersed by any of these bombs.
Leaders stick to job
They stuck. There was some grim and terrible determination in them to get Holmes and Thurmond. ”

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