J South, Why would you equate "criminals" in Montana, with Negroes Lynched in the south who were convicted of committing no crime at all. The black man lynched in Anne Moody's autobiography that so shaped her teen years, committed a terrible offense. Being from Chicao instead of Mississippi and not know the "rules" in Mississippi, he whistled at a pretty white girl, and was lynched for it. So how can you compare the lynching of cattle rustlers in Montana with the lynching of a black boy in Mississippi for celebrating seeing something fine walk by? Anne Anne Pemberton [log in to unmask] http://www.erols.com/apembert http://www.educationalsynthesis.org