Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Eugene Faulkner has been found guilty and sentenced to death at Dallas, Texas, for being implicated in burning Constable Peter Bain to death Dec- 2, 1900. Bessie and Alice Wilks, aged 10 and 18, respectively, were cremated in a fire which destroyed the home of their mother at Prattville, Ala. The mother, iu saving the life of her blind son, forgot about her daughters. Robbers battered down the outside doors and blew open the safe in the St. Alba us, IV. Va„ bank, securing a large sum of money. They escaped on a handear for three miles and then took to the mountains. Thomas Vital, a negro, who assaulted Nora, the 13-year-old daughter of Estieve Miller, was taken from his home near Fenton, 1.a., by a mob and lynched. Samuel Maddox, who attempted to defend Vital, was shot to death. J. W. Tolbert was shot on the streets of McCormick, S.C.,from whence he had been told he must go or he would be killed. Before Tolbert was shot he is said to have fired two shots at a young man named Martin, n visitor in the town, who, it is thought, had nothing to do with the trouble between Tolbort and the citizens of McCormick, uud Martin was dangerously wounded. At Birmingham, Ala., Pleakant Smithson saw his sister and his little nephew killed before his eyes, and his mother so badly injured that she died, as the result of a runaway. The party was crossing Red Mountain through Grace's Gap when the harness broke. Voting Smithson jumped, but horse, buggy and the other occupants went crashing over a 300-foot precipice. Arnold Augustus, Andrew Davis, Richard Sanders, William Hudson and Sam Baldwin, five of the negroes who killed Fillmore Herrington and Milton Mcars, two white men, at S.vlvana, Ga„ in 1900. have been found guilty of murder and sentenced to lie hanged March 20. The men belonged to an organization known as the Knights of the Archer, the members of which had taken an oath of vengeance against the whites.