Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1901 — NEGRO LYNCHED BY MOB. [ARTICLE]

NEGRO LYNCHED BY MOB.

Assailant of a White Woman Hanged lit, Paris, Ky. George' Carter, n negfo, paid the extreme penalty of his crime of assault upon Mrs. W. E. Bofid about three weeks ago at the hands of a mob at Paris, Ky. About 2 o'clock n. m. thirty determined men appeared at the jail door and demanded admittance of Jailer Kiser. He refused and the door was hurst open. The jailer was overpowered in an instant, the keys secured and in less than five minutes Carter was in the hands of the mob. He refused to make any statement. It was the work of only a minute to place a rope around his neck, and he was then half-dragged to the entrance of the courthouse. The rope was thrown over the iron arch leading to the entrance, and, while several pulled on the rope, others lifted his body. He died by strangulation. The mob then quietly dispersed. During the whole nffnir there was not a loud word spoken. Scarcely anyone in the town, outside of the immediate participants, knew that the lynching was to occur. At 12:30 o’clock the electric lights were extinguished, and the town was in total darkness. Before the men dispersed they pinned a card on the body of th 4 negrtb hearing this Inscription: “This will be the fat« of nil negroes who assault white women.’ The other occupants of the jail, who are all negroes, were greatly frightened, nud their cries and mouniugs could be heard for several blocks. The crime was a most atrocious one.