Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1903 — WEBSTER FLANAGAN APPEALS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WEBSTER FLANAGAN APPEALS

gtjri the Cruelties Visited Upon Negroes In Texes Cannot Be Portrayed— Feet# Suppress*,). Austin, Tex., Oct. 15 —General Webster Flanagan, United States collector of Internal revenue for this district, has appealed to Governor Dunham,ask-

ing that the str.te render protection to the negroes of Rusk county, and aid iu bringing to justice the w'hite men guilty of torturing to death two Inoffensive blacks. General Flanagan says all publication of news of the horrible treatment of the negroes has been suppressed. He made the following statement: “No one can portray the cruelties to which the negroes of Rusk county have been subjected. If the state does not take prompt action I shall appeal to the federal authorities. A fewnlghts before my arrival two of the most peaceable and Inoffensive negroes were stripped aud tied to trees and then whipped. One of the negroes died Saturday night, and the other cannot recover.”

WEBSTER FLANAGAN.