Judge Daniels Is
Rough on Mob Law. . . Excuses Given by Some Are Convictions Are Uncertain and
Pardons Come Easy. . . Only An Alibi of Cowards. . . County Officials Who Are
Lukewarm About Law Enforcement Bring Down Reproach on Community
Raleigh—Opening the superior court here, Judge Frank A.
Daniels, brother of Secretary Daniels, in his charge to the grand jury, scored
mob law in no uncertain terms. Citing the Franklinton lynching as a distressing
example of what an infuriated crowd can do, he said that when someone pleaded
with the infuriated mob to desist the answer came back that if they let
criminals go to courts the courts would not convict and if they did convict the
governor would not let their sentence stand.
Judge Daniels denounced such an excuse as being only the
alibi of cowards, but at the same time urged the grand jury to do its duty in
such a manner as nobody would question its sincerity.
Judge Daniels, continuing his remarks, said that county
officials who are lukewarm about law enforcement bring reproach on any community.
There are communities, he said, in which a sheriff’s posse can be recruited at
any time to chase a little negro for stealing a pig, while people guilty of
graver offenses are allowed to go free.
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