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Qoveraor Ritchie's statement 1a Baltimore 3amt teeny morning, Dm. ©th 1931.
The erl»e of this negro dlUeas sua s ahoeklne thing, tout ho should have paid the penalty for It through the established legal msehinery, The action of tlto neb ta lynching hla must bring ths blush of shsms to every law abiding nrylander, whether on or off tho Eastern Jhoro.
The daisy of ascertaining ths perpetrators and punishing them roots on tho authorities of Iconlco County,- the *ats*s Attorney, the arena Jury and the circuit court. State's Attorney Bailey is quoted this afternoon as saying that he plans "to preseeute the saae rigorously, stopping not at the leaders, but carrying it to mmry other person she took part* and who ©an be identified".
1 hare oonfidenoe in in*. Bailey and bailors that be sill do exactly what he says, but in tho faoe of this outrage, whleh is of state side Importance, It is ay duty to give him all ths assistsnse within «$y power.
tlsisr ths authority conferred on as by the Constitution, I hate directed
ths Attorney General to cooperate with the state's attorney of tioomis© County Is
the vigorous prosecution of the perpetrators of this crime. the Attorney Oeuerel
sill have behind him every agsney shloh the ctate can supply for his assistance.
There remain* the question ef the offset of this lynching upon the ssss
It is Imperative that orphan Jones be tried, wherever he is to be tried, et the earliest possible assent, Jones* attorney has appealed to the Court of Appeals from ths order of tiM lower court removing his case to oorehoster County. I am advised that the circuit Court sill not try the ease until this appeal has been
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