Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — MOB YENGEANICE. [ARTICLE]

MOB YENGEANICE.

A Brutal Convict Driver an<j One of His Tools Shot to Death. [Telegram from Arkansas City, Ark.] . A mob of several hundred men fired on the steamer Ida Darragh, near Burnett’s Landing, wounded an obnoxious convipt boss fatally, and killed a negro convict Two weeks ago a young machinist from Clinton, IIL, came to this section hunting odd jobs. He secured work repairing ginhouses on a farm near Bed Forks. While living there he boarded with a Mrs. King. He fell behind in his board, and told the woman that he would send her the sum aa soon as he could raise it i (Just as he was preparing to leave for the North he was arrested, taken before a magis. trate, and sentenced to work in the fields for attempting to defraud his landlady. Not working to. suit Werner, the man who had charge of the convicts, the young man was whipped by three negro convicts at the boss orders. He died from the effects of the beating. The Sheriff of Desha county arrested Werner and the three negroeß, and was taking them to Arkansas City when the mob fired upon them. One of the negroes lumped into the river ana was killed by the mob as he was swimming for the shore. Werner fell on the deck with a bullet in his chest. A perfect fusilade was kept up by the men, who followed the steamer down the river for some distance. The lives of the passengers and crew were in great danger. The Sheriff, with the wounded man Werner and two of the neSoes, were finally placed aboard the Anchor ne steamer City of New Orleans and brought here