Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1887 — JUDGE LYNCH’S WORK. [ARTICLE]

JUDGE LYNCH’S WORK.

Victims of Mob Violence an«l Their Crimes— Hangings, Shootings,,and Burnings. JANUARY. Two negroes—Emmett Key and Nat Forbes — entered the house of E. T. Carroll in Sunflower County, Mississippi, and asked for some apples ; while Carroll wiik stooping to supply their wants they drove a hat jh. t in'.o his bead, the took SOU and a watch from his person ; the culprits were captured and suspended from a bridge. At the Schuyler (N( b. > jail a prisoner named Latour killed sheriff John D.;gnau with a piece Ttf scantling; Latour was taken from the je.il and hanged by a mob. Holly Epps, colored, was taken from jail at Vincenno-i, iiul., and hanged by a party of twenty men from Greene^County,’where the culprit killed Farmer Dobson and att mpted to assault his wife. Sidney Brown (colored was strung up at Kochedale. Texas, for the murder of a farmer named Ford. Calvin Simpson, a mulatto, for the brutal murder of Mrs. Graves in Hendorson County, Kentucky, was taken from jail and hanged. Citizens of Susanville, Cal., ban ed in the court-house yard two convicted murderers, an Indian jiud a Mexican, named Dick and Olinas. FEBRUARY. A notorious colored desperado named James was handed by citizens of Beauregard, La.; he confessed to-one-rnurder, the burning of several houst s, and the intention to kill live’ persons wire he at liberty. The minions of Judge Lvnch obeyed his behests in the following instances during February : John Ferry, at Red Cliff, Colo., for killing Mike Gleason; George Robinson icolored), who kilted Mi lard F. Parker at Monroe, La.; a negro named Burns at Martiusburg, \V. Va., after confessing to an assault upon a white girl. .

MARCH. V. A. Witcher, an orator and politician, was lynched in southwestern Virginia for the murder of his fifth wife. An Indian Territory mob reported the mysterious disappearance of a lecherous exhorter named Murgll, whom they were taking to Vinita for trial for assault upon an Indian girl John, Martin and Thomas Archer, three brothers, accused of murder, were taken from jail at Shoals, Ind., by a mob and lynched. Handy Woodward (colored), who attempted to assault a child, was taken from jail at Russellville, Ky,, by masked men, and hanged. At Auburn, Ky., three negroes were summarily hanged by a mob for a criminal a-sault upon the daughter of a prominent citizen. Tobe Williams and Weakley Ridley, both negroes, were hanged to a tree at Alamo, Tenn., for the murder of Daniel Guthrie. Fred Villerssa, an Italian, was taken from jail at Vicksburg, Miss., by a mob and hanged ; his crime was an outrageous assault. Forty citizens of Anthony, Kan., took from the sheriff the two brothers Weaver (imprisoned for murder), and shot them to death, the tragedy being witnessed by the mother of the victims and the wife of one of them. Kellis Moorman (colored) was lynched at Axton, Vo., for assault and robbery. APRIL. At Springfield, Mo., on the 20th, Geo, E. Graham, wife-murderer, was taken from the jail by a mob of 300 men, and strung up to a tree ; when the mob unlocked Graham s cell he greeted them with the remark : “You can hang me, but by G—d, you can’t scare me." Mendy Jones, a colored outlaw, was killed by lynchers at Auburn, Ky., for a criminal attempt upon two white girls, whose room he had entered. MAY. Albert Smith, a negro laborer, killed his employer, Maj. W. P. Green, a sugar planter, near New Orleans; Smith was taken from jail and hanged to a tree. Dan and Sam Mann were strung up by a mob at Bartow, Fla., for killing the marshal of that place. JUNE. During the month mobs inflicted summary punishment in tho following cases r Alfred Long, who murdered A. J. Mcßride and wife and burned their bodies, near Lexington,-N. 0. Charles Whittle (colored), accused of assaulting the child of a clergyman. Ole Beckvolt. near Grand Forks, Dakota. Eli Owens, arrested for assault upon his 16-year old sister-in-law, taken from jail at Hebron, Neb., and hanged to a tree by masked men. W. P. Pruitt, lynched near Sipe Springs, Comanche County, Texas, for conspiring to murder J. O. Hostetter. The wanton murder of Marshal John Cowev at Detroit City, Minn., bv a gambler named William Kahlihen, was speedily followed by the lynching of the latter, who was strung up to a tree and then riddled with bullets. Ed Williams (colored) suffered doath upon an Impromptu scaffold at Gainesville, Texas, for criminal assault upon a white woman. JULY. George Parker, colored, for assault upon a white woman, had summary justice meted out to him at Pearlington, Miss Sidney Davis was on trial at Morgan, Texas, for outrage, when the proceedings wore interrupted by tho Hrri al of 600 men, who hanged the culprit. Stove ltonfroe, a notorious outlaw and desperado, was hanged by a mob at Livlugston, Ala. Jako Bra-wel, colored, horribly maltreated Dolly Woods, a six-year-old girl on her way to school; Brasweil was captured, and a conference of ono hundred whites and blacks gave him tho choice of being burned or hanging himself; he chose hanging, olimbed a tree, and fastened a rope around his own neck and to a limb of a tree, when he was pushed off and his body riddled with bullets. At Frisco, Kan,, a posse in pursuit of a murderer surrounded a stable where the fugitive was concealed, and upon toe latter refusing to surrender he was killed by a volloy of bullets. Bill Haley, a murderer, was taken from the jail at Paulding, Ohio, by a massed mob and hanged to a tree. Porter Sorrell, colored, was shot to death by a mob in Luling, Texas; he had assaulted Mrs. Duke with a hatchet. In Comanche County, Texaß, a mob hanged a negro hoy who had assaulted and murdered Mrs. Stephens; tho lynchers were bent on burning him. but the mother of tho murdered woman idead d for a less barbarous punishment.

, _ AUGUST. Ex-Policeman Jim Moore, of Macon, Ga., was applied to for information by a stranger, a lady from Savannah, whereupon he procured a hack, enticed her to an assignation house, and with a pistol to her head compelled her submission; when the fact became known an angry crowd hanged him to a tree. Judge Lynch inflicted Bummnry punishment upon divers culprits during the month as follows - John Shorts,of Searcy. Ark., wife-murder; an unknown tramp who robbed and murdered John S. Davis, agent of the O. and M. R. R., at Huron, Ind.; Wm. Watkins, bricklayer, at Aurora, Ind., was dragged to a water-tank and hanged, with his hands untied—he had killed his employer, Louis Hilbert, a contractor; citizens of Jackson, Tenn , hanged Eliza Woods, a negro cook, accused of poisoning a white woman. John and Leandor Nelson were hanged from a bridge near Magnolia, La. At Vicusburg, Miss., a negro boy of 18, who killed Mrs. Davis, wife of his employer, with a hoe, was shot to death by neighbors. All of tho above were punished for murder. Three negroes at McNutt Lake, Miss., were hanged by citizens for attempted assault upon some young ladies.

SEPTEMBER. David Johnson, a lunatic, who killed Edward White in the street at Western Port, Md., was seized by citizens and suspended to a bridge over the Potomac; his nedk was broken. A negro named Wilkerson was riddled with bullets near Millen, Ga., for criminal assault. Bowman Paxton, a druggist, hanged to a treo at Malden, Mo., for murder. L. F. Symmes, charged with murder, was taken from the authorities at Montrose, Col., and hanged. OCTOBER. The people of Quincy, Fla., lynched two men suspected of firing a new mill. Masked men at Steelville, Mo., lynched R. P. Wallace, the alleged murderer of the Logan family of five persons— fathor, mother, and three children. Other culprits who fell victims to mob law during October were: Tom Farrar, a negro, who assaulted Miss Lizzie Murray and afterward murdered her father at Throckmorton, T-exas. Thomas Israel, a negro, for brutally assaulting a ten-year-old white girl at Rocky Ford, Ga. Vigilantes of Montrose, Col., took from jail a notorious man-i-layer named John McLees, and hanged him to a gate-beam. Masked men at Monticello, 111., took out of jail and hanged Henry Wildmun, a wife-murderer. Three negroes in Pickens County, Alabama, suspected of incendiarism—strung up. James Haynes, a murderer, was taken from jail at Brownsville, Miss., and hanged: all parties—the murdered victim, lynchei s, and lynched—colored. A mulatto named Ilewey quarreled with Samuel Day over four pounds of cotton at Bad Springs, Texas; Day was killed, Hewey was followed by bloodhounds, captured and susTiended to a tree. NOVEMBER ( ....„ Samuel Purple surrendered to the Sheriff of Hodgeman County, Kansas, after killing his wife and two children; but a mob took him out of jail and bang d him to a tree Other culprits upon whom lynch law was visited during' the month wers: Andrew J. Mulligan, a)ias James Page, at Harrison; Ark., fi r murder. Charles Pmwiddle, at McKenzie, Tonn., robbery. Elias *#Hnmous, colored, shot to death while usleop at Minden, La. John Davis, colored, t Randolph, Ala.,‘for repeated minimal assaults upon white women. Three inc> ndiaries who burned a cotton gin ho ,so in Franklin County, Miss., were “lost in the woods” while being taken to jail. Four negro murderers were strung up in the Choctaw Nation lor killing George Tr.iufe, who came upon them while they were cleaning a hog they had stolen. Ciesar Robinson was hanged by a mob at Florence, S. C., for assault upon a white woman. < DECEMBER The town of Brenham, Texas, was invaded at midnight bv a masked mob who took from the jail Shea Felder, Alfred Jones and Ephraim Jones unurdtrers), who were found next morning banging to a*ree. George Parks and Monroe Smith, colored, charged with incendiarism, were lynched at Ringgold, Ga. James Howard, of Bowio County, Texas, who branded his 14-year-old wife with the letter “H," wits taken from jail and lynched by his neighbors. N6ar Harmony, Ga., Frank Sanders butchered John Swilling, his wife, and three children—his purpose being to secure ?,0; be was h nged by the neighbors of his victims. Factor Jones and Dick Bullock, murderers, were riddled With bullets by their neighbors in the I Choctaw Nation. Wm. Mussels, murderer, was I suspended from an electric-light tower by leading citizens of Eaton, G.