Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1888 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

John Henry Skinner, alias Cox, alias Reynolds, was taken from the Hopkinsville (Ky.) jail by an orderly mob, and hanged to a large cherry tree, near where he, in pure wantonness, shot down Mr. B. F. Forguean, an inoffensive citizen, the night of November 18, 1887.

A Washington (N. C.) dispatch says a lifeless body was found hanging from a bridge, to which was attached a placard with the inscription: “Justice at last.” The body was that of William A. Parker, who was triffd for the assassination of Gen. Bryan Grimes, seven or eight years ago. He has been heard to boast of the deed on several occasions when in liquor.„ It is not known who the lynchers were.