Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1899 — TEN DIE IN RACE WAR. [ARTICLE]

TEN DIE IN RACE WAR.

Negroes Are Run Down by Mob of White* for Plotting Revenge. A war of extermination is on between the Whites and negroes in Little River County in the extreme, southwest corner of Arkansas, and seven of the latter are known to be dead. Many other negroes are missing. The wholesale lynching is the result of the murder of James A. Stockton, a planter, last Saturday by a big negro called “General” Duckett. After hiding for some time Duckett gave himself up and was being taken toward Richmond, the county seat, when lie was taken by a mob and lynched. He confessed to a carefully laid plan by the negroes to precipitate a race war, and told of many whites who were marked for execution. It was learned from Duckett that there were twentythree negroes in the plot, and their names were given. Several parties of white men started out to execute speedy vengeance on the plotters. The negroes became panic-stricken and fled in all directions. Willis Boyd, O. C. Reed and Minor Wilson, three negroes, were taken from an officer lynched near Silver City, in Y’azoo County, Miss. They were the ringleaders in a race encounter at the. Midnight plantation. After being shot to death their bodies were cut down and thrown into the Yazoo river.