Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1887 — A Negro Murderer Lynched. [ARTICLE]

A Negro Murderer Lynched.

[Navasota (Texas) special.] * Monday Deputy Sheriff Upchurch was shot by Jim Richards, a negro, at Dedias, thirty miles from here. Upchurch had Bichards under arrest, and the latter, watching his opportunity, jerked Upchurch’s pistol out of its scabbard and in* dieted the fatal wound. About sundown Monday evening over seventy-five masked men, , armed to the teeth, took Richards from the custody of the guards and swung him to a neighboring tree.