Though the Scottsboro case has not figured very much in the summer news, it resumes operations next month in Alabama under a new management. In the meantime, however, the citizens have not found time too leaden-footed just to keep their hands in, they have engineered two typical lynchings in the last two months. The second and latest was a routine affair, but the first was, perhaps, a little more interesting. The negro defendants accused of crimes against whites were being taken by the police from Tuscaloosa to Decatur by a backroad, escorted by ten armed men in automobiles. When they reached the county line they were halted by a three-car party, armed, who removed the negroes from the escort and sent the sheriff and deputies back to town. The prisoners were stood up next to each other and shot. The firing-squad left shortly, leaving the bodies on the ground; two of the men had been riddled and torn apart with bullets; the other had only three wounds and was able to stumble to a farm-house, where he was later captured. He seems to have owed his remarkable escape to his having fallen beneath his two companions, and been partially protected by their corpses. There was considerable indignation about it in and out of the state, but little has been done. The sheriff was "unable" to recognize the abductors or anything about them; it had not entered his head to resist. The International Labor Defense, which had sent down two lawyers, was generally blamed for having interfered in the sweet reasonableness of Alabaman justice.