Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1890 — EIGHT NEGROES LYNCHED. [ARTICLE]

EIGHT NEGROES LYNCHED.

Taken From a Jail and Riddled with Bullets. Barnwell (8. C.) dispatch: The murderers of Heffernan and Martin, eight negroes in all, have been lynched here. The sheriff anticipated trouble, it seems, from information of the jailer. About 800 men, all disguised or unknown to tbe jailer, entered the jail. After putting him under control the party applied to the jailer to deliver some of tbe prisoners, and when he came to receive the expected prisoners he was overpowered. Eight negroes were riddled with bullets just on the outskirts of the boundary line of the town. Charleston (S. C.) dispatch: Advices from Barnwell Court Bouse say that ell v quiet an 1 no further outbreak is feared as tbe result of the lynching of the eight negroes. The threats of vengeance come chiefly from infuriated black women. The talk of the negroes leaving the State is not looked upon as serious, as the community at large are their friends and denounce tYe horrible butchery. Sheriff Lancaster for a long time had the jail thoroughly guarded, as threats of violence had been made, and he only withdrew the extra force when it was believed all danger was past It is admitted that the murder of Martin by negroes precipitated the lynching. "