Duluth Lynchings Newspaper Index for the Duluth News Tribune June 17, 1920 through September 20, 1920 Index created by Heather Hawkins, volunteer, December 2002. Minnesota Historical Society z 345 Kellogg Blvd. West z St. Paul, Minnesota 55102-1906 1 Date Newspaper Article Name Page(s) Comments 6/17/1920 Duluth News Tribune Duluth's Disgrace 1 editorial 6/17/1920 Duluth News Tribune Superior Police to Deport Idle Negroes at Once 1 6/16/1920 Duluth News Tribune 3 Dragged from Jail and Hanged at Street Corner 1,3 6/16/1920 Duluth News Tribune Lynchers Will Be Prosectured By Att'y Greene 1 6/16/1920 Duluth News Tribune 4-Hour Battle Waged By Mob to Get Victims 1,3 Long 6/16/1920 Duluth News Tribune Attack on Girl Was Cause of Negro Lynching 3 6/16/1920 Duluth News Tribune Negros Nabbed at Virginia Sent to Saint Paul 1 6/16/1920 Duluth News Tribune Opposes Mob 3 6/16/1920 Duluth News Tribune Attorney Hugh M'Clearn Attempts to Stay Mob 3 6/16/1920 Duluth News Tribune Woman Curses Police for Failure to Save Negroes 3 6/16/1920 Duluth News Tribune Chief Murphy Promises a Thorough Investigation 3 6/17/1920 Duluth News Tribune Demand Quiz of Police Efforts to Defeat Mob 1,8 6/17/1920 Duluth News Tribune Aftermath of Lynching Orgy 1 6/17/1920 Duluth News Tribune Militiamen Kept on Duty to Help Maintain Order 1,9 6/17/1920 Duluth News Tribune Damage to Police Headquarters by Mob Over $2,000 1 6/17/1920 Duluth News Tribune Officials Will Act After Quiz of Mob Leaders 1,9 Long 6/17/1920 Duluth News Tribune Guardsmen Sent to Virginia For Negro Suspects 8 6/17/1920 Duluth News Tribune Father of Negroes' Victim Deplores Lynching By Mob 9 6/17/1920 Duluth News Tribune Physician, Girl Throw New Light On Assault Case 9 6/18/1920 Duluth News Tribune Plan to Hang Negroes Bared to Police Tuesday Afternoon 1,8 6/18/1920 Duluth News Tribune Trio of Police Force Examined By Grand Jury 1 6/18/1920 Duluth News Tribune Mob Flayed By Judge In Charge To Grand Jury 8 6/18/1920 Duluth News Tribune Part of State Troops Return to Fort Snelling 8 6/18/1920 Duluth News Tribune Jailer Hid From Mob; He Had Cell Door Keys 8 6/18/1920 Duluth News Tribune Military Probe Into Lynching Is Rhinow's Aim 8 6/19/1920 Duluth News Tribune Predict Arresst of Ringleaders in Lynch Plot 1,4 6/19/1920 Duluth News Tribune Rumor of Plot to Storm Jail Brings Militia 1,4 6/19/1920 Duluth News Tribune Grand Jury to Sift Stories of Police Defense 3 6/19/1920 Duluth News Tribune West Duluth Girl Victim of Negroes is Still Ill 3 6/19/1920 Duluth News Tribune Duluth Negroes Condemen Affair 4 6/19/1920 Duluth News Tribune Pictures of Lynchings Sell for 50 Cents Each 5 6/19/1920 Duluth News Tribune The Duluth Lynching 16 Editorials 6/20/1920 Duluth News Tribune Soldiers Halt Mob's Desires For Lynching 1 6/20/1920 Duluth News Tribune Engineers Flay Negro Lynching 4 Minnesota Historical Society z 345 Kellogg Blvd. West z St. Paul, Minnesota 55102-1906 2 6/20/1920 Duluth News Tribune Reverdy' Flays Failure to Balk Local Mob's Act 7 Editorial 6/21/1920 Duluth News Tribune Grand Jury to Quiz 14 Negroes- Guards to Remain Indefinitely 1,3 6/21/1920 Duluth News Tribune Veiled 'Threats' Made In Letters 3 6/21/1920 Duluth News Tribune Lynching Three Negroes Crime of Darkest Hue 4 6/21/1920 Duluth News Tribune Lynching Pictures Remain in Photographers Window 6 6/21/1920 Duluth News Tribune Free Advertising 10 Editorial 6/21/1920 Duluth News Tribune Blame is Placed (In response to Duluth's Disgrace 6/17) 10 Editorial 6/21/1920 Duluth News Tribune Capital Punishment 10 Editorial 6/22/1920 Duluth News Tribune Two Members of 'Jail Court' Held in Probe 1,3 6/22/1920 Duluth News Tribune Lynching Scored By Negroe Women 3 6/22/1920 Duluth News Tribune 30 Blacks Hired By Carnival Are Visiting In Aitkin 5 6/22/1920 Duluth News Tribune Photographer Fined $25 For Displaying Lynching Photos 6 6/22/1920 Duluth News Tribune Educate the People 12 Editorial 6/22/1920 Duluth News Tribune Police Are Praised 12 Editorial 6/22/1920 Duluth News Tribune Sad Experiment 12 Editorial 6/23/1920 Duluth News Tribune Arrest Made In Connection With Lynching 1,4 6/23/1920 Duluth News Tribune "Vengeance Is Mine." 14 Editorial 6/23/1920 Duluth News Tribune An Old Story 14 Editorial 6/24/1920 Duluth News Tribune Three, Alleged To Have Aided Mob, Indicted 1,12 6/24/1920 Duluth News Tribune Adj. 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Rhinow Grills Police On 'No Shoot' Order 1 6/24/1920 Duluth News Tribune National Press Raps Police for Duluth Lynchings 2 6/24/1920 Duluth News Tribune Lynching Is Condemned By Two Duluth Organizations 3 6/24/1920 Duluth News Tribune Wants An Adequate Penalty 14 Editorial 6/24/1920 Duluth News Tribune Wants Pole Removed 14 Editorial 6/25/1920 Duluth News Tribune Cannont Escape Law By Flight, Greene Avers 1 6/25/1920 Duluth News Tribune Why Not A Mass Meeting? 12 Editorial 6/25/1920 Duluth News Tribune Both Races Regret 12 Editorial 6/26/1920 Duluth News Tribune Probe Deepens; Termination Is Not In Sight 1,4 6/26/1920 Duluth News Tribune Wants Protest Meeting (In Response to Why Not A Mass Meeting 6/25) 14 Editorial 6/27/1920 Duluth News Tribune Youth Indicted In Lynching Free on $15,000 Bail 1,4 6/27/1920 Duluth News Tribune Mob Psychology 8 Editorial 6/28/1920 Duluth News Tribune Reparation For Lynching Is Demanded By Bishop 3 6/28/1920 Duluth News Tribune Righteous Indignation 10 Editorial 6/28/1920 Duluth News Tribune Credit for North Negroes 10 Editorial 6/28/1920 Duluth News Tribune About 'Lynching ' Pole 10 Editorial 6/28/1920 Duluth News Tribune Jury Duty 10 Editorial Minnesota Historical Society z 345 Kellogg Blvd. West z St. Paul, Minnesota 55102-1906 3 6/29/1920 Duluth News Tribune Lawyers Renew Efforts to Get Bail for Youths 8 6/29/1920 Duluth News Tribune Window Pictures 14 Editorial 6/30/1920 Duluth News Tribune Murder Charge Against 3 More in Lynch Probe 1 6/30/1920 Duluth News Tribune Thinks 'Don't Fire' Right 14 Editorial 6/30/1920 Duluth News Tribune Courts, Not Mobs 14 Editorial 7/1/1920 Duluth News Tribune Police Hold Two As Witnesses in Negro Lynching 1 7/1/1920 Duluth News Tribune Make Penalty Fit Crime 15 Editorial 7/1/1920 Duluth News Tribune Alleges Another Lynching 15 Editorial 7/2/1920 Duluth News Tribune Grand Jury in Partial Report Indicts 5 Men 1, 2 7/2/1920 Duluth News Tribune Wants Circuses Bonded 20 Editorial 7/2/1920 Duluth News Tribune Agrees With 'Don't Shoot' 20 Editorial 7/3/1920 Duluth News Tribune Father of One Lynched Negro Claims $7,500 1,4 7/3/1920 Duluth News Tribune Mr. Murnian and Indicted Lad Don't Agree on Kinship 1 7/3/1920 Duluth News Tribune Viewpoint of a Woman 14 Editorial 7/3/1920 Duluth News Tribune Where's the Good? 14 Editorial 7/4/1920 Duluth News Tribune Negroes Jailed Legally, Reply to Habeas Plea 1,8 7/5/1920 Duluth News Tribune District Grand Jury To Resume Lynching Probe 3 7/5/1920 Duluth News Tribune Fears Duluth 10 Editorial 7/6/1920 Duluth News Tribune Scope of Lynch Probe Extended On New Evidence 3 7/6/1920 Duluth News Tribune The Lynching 10 Editorial 7/7/1920 Duluth News Tribune New Arrests In Lynch Quiz are Certain, Belief 1 7/8/1920 Duluth News Tribune New Evidence in Lynching Probe Prolongs Quiz; Girl Testifies 1 7/9/1920 Duluth News Tribune Thirteen Negroes Face Grand Jury: Two Whites Arraigned in Lynch Probe 1,3 7/9/1920 Duluth News Tribune Lynching Pictures 12 Editorial 7/11/1920 Duluth News Tribune Hughes Pleads Not Guilty to Murder Charge 3 7/14/1920 Duluth News Tribune Seven More Men Indicted in Probe; Names Secret 1 7/14/1920 Duluth News Tribune Scathingly Assailed As 'Unfit', And Blamed for Police Fizzle, Murnian Says He 1,8 Wont Resign 7/14/1920 Duluth News Tribune Rhinow's Report on Police Action to Follow Jury's 1 7/14/1920 Duluth News Tribune Grand Jury Calls Murnian Incompetant to Head Police Department 8 7/17/1920 Duluth News Tribune Jury's Probe of Lynching Affair Soon Complete 3 7/18/1920 Duluth News Tribune Charge 2 With Aiding Lynching; Not Guilty, Plea 9 7/19/1920 Duluth News Tribune Two Grand Jury Bodies to Close Record Sessions 3 7/19/1920 Duluth News Tribune Grand Jury Report 10 Editorial 7/20/1920 Duluth News Tribune Nineteen New Indictments In Final Report 1 7/20/1920 Duluth News Tribune One of Lynched Negroes Innocent of Alleged Assault, Is Jury Report 1 Minnesota Historical Society z 345 Kellogg Blvd. West z St. Paul, Minnesota 55102-1906 4 7/21/1920 Duluth News Tribune Prepare to Try 40 Men Indicted in Lynch Probe 3 7/21/1920 Duluth News Tribune Lynching and Other Things 14 Editorial 7/23/1920 Duluth News Tribune Burr, Indicted in Lynch Probe, Released on Bail 3 7/24/1920 Duluth News Tribune Seven Negroes File Petition to Quash Charges 3 7/29/1920 Duluth News Tribune Another Lynching 12 Editorial 7/30/1920 Duluth News Tribune Greene Examines New Witnesses for Lynch Trial 3 8/1/1920 Duluth News Tribune Evidence Taken on Petition to Quash Charges 4 8/3/1920 Duluth News Tribune $8000 Sought for Lynching Trials 4 8/5/1920 Duluth News Tribune Fund for Defendants in Lynch Trials Now $450 3 8/7/1920 Duluth News Tribune Sheriff Makes One More Arrest In Lynching Case 3 8/10/1920 Duluth News Tribune Nine Arraigned Deny Charges in Lynching Probe` 3 8/12/1920 Duluth News Tribune Sets Date for Lynching Trials 1,3 8/13/1920 Duluth News Tribune Three Branches of Court Will Try Lynch Cases 4 8/14/1920 Duluth News Tribune Other Places, Too 14 Editorial 8/15/1920 Duluth News Tribune Order of Trial in Lynch Cases Fixed by Greene 8 8/18/1920 Duluth News Tribune Special Venire of 72 Jurymen in Lynch Trials 3 8/22/1920 Duluth News Tribune Court Refuses Negroes'