Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Unknown assassins fired a volley of bullets through a circus tent at New Edinburg, Ark., killing a contortionist in the ring. John L. Martin, of Luling, Texas, who confessed having murdered his wife, was taken out of the hands of his guard by 100 masked men, and hanged to a tree. A second lynching party called at the Constable’s house for Martin two hours later. An assignment has been made by Simon & Mertief, dry goods merchants of Montgomery, Ala., whose liabilities are $30,000. Sixty-five colored men took a negro murderer, named Lawrence White, from the officers at Mount Mourne, N. C., and lynched him. James Truxtill, charged with a brutal outrage on Mrs. Coones, a married woman, near Clio, Ky., wa§ arrested and privately taken to be identified by his victim. The next day Truxtill’s body was found hanging from the Cincinnati Southern railway bridge over the Cumberland river. He had been taken from the officers and thus disposed of by a mob.