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I learnt of her from a French newspaper which is the source of the picture. And I learnt the origin of the verb "to lynch" lol
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7164555/f7.item
>In Chicago. The crowd wants to lynch Miss Goldman
>The emotion generated in the United States by the assassination of President McKinley will not die down for long; after mourning the victim of the odious attack, people are thinking of avenging him.
>The government is preparing laws against anarchists; the people, more simplistic, prefer to strangle them immediately.
>Thus, very recently, the police had to withstand a veritable barrage against a mob of five hundred people armed with clubs and ropes, who wanted to enter the prison where Miss Emma Goldman was being held to lynch her.
>We know that McKinley's assassin declared that this woman's preaching had largely convinced him to become an anarchist.
>We know what lynching consists of. It was at a time when the discovery of gold in California was leading to so many crimes that Judge Lynch declared that the people could very well, in the case of an obvious crime, seize the criminal, try him, and execute him immediately.
>Since then, this lynch law has been used and abused, with the people's justice sometimes being a little too summary. In any case, without the energy of the police, Miss Emma Goldman, who has been released after that, would surely have experienced its application.