Newspapers openly advertised a lynching and burning before the suspect was captured

Evidence

On April 13, a day after the alleged crime, the Atlanta Constitution ran the headline “Determined Mob After Hose; He Will Be Lynched If Caught.” The article also included a subhead suggesting just how the lynching might proceed: “Assailant of Mrs. Cranford May Be Brought to Palmetto and Burned at the Stake.” With Wilkes still at large a week later, Governor Allen Candler, a member of one of Georgia’s most prominent Methodist families, offered a 500 reward for his capture. The paper put up another 500 and ran another article, declaring, “When Hose is caught he will either be lynched and his body riddled with bullets or he will be burned at the stake… the mob which is in pursuit of him is composed of determined men… wrought up to an unusual degree.” — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 90

Categorization

• QUESTION: The paper and governor openly announcing a man would be burned alive weeks before capture is worth chasing — were there any dissenters in the white press at all, and how common was this pre-announced lynching pattern?
• XREF: connects to: The media blamed Islamic terrorists for Oklahoma City before evidence appeared — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the…, 160

Broader Connections

• The media blamed Islamic terrorists for Oklahoma City before evidence appeared #exemplifies (0.75) — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 160