Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Winston, N. C., a mob took Henry Swaim, who murdered a woman, from jail and hanged him. William W. Massey, paying teller of the Baltimore Bank of Commerce, appropriated to his own account $40,000 of the money of that concern. He lost it in speculation. He has confessed. James S. Coleman, colored, was executed at Columbia, S. C., for the murder of Sarah Willis, his wife's sister. Masked men at Elizabethtown, Ky., took from jail a negro who had committed an outrage on a white woman, and hanged him to a tree outside the city, with a placard ordering no one to touch the corpse. Miles Patty, a negro, in jail at Elizabethtown, Ky., for outraging a young lady, was taken out by a mob and hanged. Dr. A. B. Pettis refused to testify in tbo trial of “Has” Wheeler at Hazleburst, Miss., and the Judge fined him SIOO, and ordered that he be kept in closo confinement. Before being taken to jail, Pettis, accompanied by a deputy, was permitted to visit bis residence, whence he departed secretly and cannot be found. C. A. Van Norden, a business man of Atlanta, Ga., who was indicted for carrying concealed weapons, forfeited his bona and hid beneath his house. When he grew tired of his position, he killed himself with a revolver.