The evil continues. These days government has gotten so much stronger storming the Bastille or a local jail likely will not work. But the evil remains very real throughout this nation. Often now it is the sometimes violent measures taken by Black people against public authority for real or believed racial wrong. Ferguson, MO, Baltimore, MD and Wilmington DE. Wilmington?
When a crime occurs and a Black is the victim the race question is routinely asked. People demand justice. The people should have justice. It is supposed that the police and legal authority will not give a black justice. But if you are White nothing is asked. My friends, family and church have been decimated and no one even asked the question.
In 1968 Wilmington was held hostage for nine months by the occupation of the National Guard to enforced a 7 PM curfew. Former Mayor Baker states Wilmington has never recovered. The threat of violence and actual violence in 1975 caused the legal process to adapts to prevent the disaster and economic loss of 1968. In 1975 John Bailey could not be released on bond. Bail was changed four times in four days until a night hearing quadrupled it. Bail is a well-regulated routine process under law and the Constitutions. If Bailey could not be released on bond could he be vindicated? Bail is only a preliminary step. Over Samford Florida the President walked around the White House in a hoodie because the criminal justice process had not started. The issue to lynch George White was that the process was not fast enough for the people. A minister urged the people on in 1903 as did Rev. Jessie Walker in 1975. The Governor and Mayor attended Sheila’s funeral. Some telling 1903 story justified it because he confessed in the face of mob violence. They incarcerated Bailey many more years to force a confession. A state employee’s daughter was the victim in 1903 and 1975. Articles listed Bailey with “killer cops” even without any facts. The reason was claimed to be “racial prejudice” again without any facts. Of course it was claimed he was “wealthy” because he made bail. The News Journal every day listed the race issue to fan the racial flames of Wilmington. The riot and arrest of present and former elected official and socialist reactionaries died down once bail was stopped. To prevent bail the courts ruled twice there was proof positive and presumption great of a first degree conviction, but the verdict never came. There were five eyewitnesses at trial but at three prier hearings Sgt. Curtis testified under oath saying, only one.

https://www.delawarebusinesstimes.com/the-madness-in-dallas-could-happen-in-delaware/

Bailey v. State

Bailey v. State
Bailey v. State – 363 A.2d 312

https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/periodicals/unity-struggle/us-4-13.pdf

1903 Fiend assaults Helen Bishop pt 2 – Newspapers.com

1903 Fiend assaults Helen Bishop pt 2 – Newspapers.com
Clipping found in The Morning News in Wilmington, Delaware on Jun 16, 1903. 1903 Fiend assaults Helen Bishop pt …

http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC510_scans/Prisons_Women/510.PrisonWomen.BreakdeChains.pdf` SEE PAGE 13.

Stop Killer Cops: Stop Killer Cops: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1a/cap-cops.htm

Stop Killer Cops
EROL

In 1840, Daniel Neall of Philadelphia, who had been the major figure behind the construction of Philadelphia Hall, which was burned by a mob in 1838, just after it had opened, was accompanying Lucretia Mott of Philadelphia in her travels in the ministry in Delaware. Somewhere near Smyrna, Delaware, has taken out of the house that he was staying in, ridden on a pole and then tarred and feathered. Lucretia Mott followed the mob telling him that she was the one they were after. Neall’s tar and feathering tuned out to be largely symbolic, with the tar dabbed onto his clothes and the feathers adhering to the tar. A tar and feathering could be lethal, or at least exceedingly painful, if it was hot tar poured onto a naked body. None of the mob stepped forward to explain why they targeted Neall, but but various newspaper accounts where clear that the lynching was connected with abolitionism and/or Neall speaking with African-Americans.

I find the targeting of Neall as a little curious as though he was an abolitionist, he was neither a speaker or writer and did not have great public visibility. A possible answer is that he was from Delaware himself, and was the son in law of Warner Mifflin of Delaware, a noted anti-slavery figure. One of his daughters later married Sidney Gay of New York, another abolitionist.

Whether the lynching was largely symbolic, or stopped short of being lethal, or was lethal, the message was that there was a supposedly large population who were not afraid of openly not going through the law or public authorities, to dispense what the lynch mob considered the will of the people. The victim virtually always had no way to seek redress in the law.

There was no way that Daniel Neall or Lucretia Mott could have judged the intentions of the lynch mob. Perhaps they intended more than they delivered, deterred by a little (less than five feet tall, and less than ninety pounds, old (by the standards of the day) Quaker lady who kept tell them that if anyone was the guilty party, it was herself, Lucretia Mott of Philadelphia.