Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1910 — 5,000 SEE TEXAS NEGRO LYNCHED [ARTICLE]

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Holland Brooks, Who Assaulted I 3-Year-old Girl is Victim. ' • 1 MOB STORMS DALLAS CO, JAIL Were After Four Other Murderers Who Were Awaiting 'Trials on Charges of Murder, Robbery, Etc.—Spirited Away.

Dallas, Tex., March 4.—Holland Brooks, negro, who attacked a three-year-old white girl, was lynched by g mob of 5,000 persons. The whole town turned out* to see the man slain.

Dallas was quiet last night. There is no danger of further work of the mob, for the reason that therq, is no desirable or available material on which it cared to work. The four other criminals that it sought to lynch were hurried out of the Dallas county jail, placed in automobiles by squads of armed guards, and rushed to Fort Worth or Weatherford before the mob that lynched Allen Brooks could make the half mile journey on foot from the Elks’ Arch to the jail. More than 3,000 determined men assailed the county jail and .defied the fifty armed white men assembled to defend it. They parleyed long with the jail authorities to be given Burrell Oates and Bubber Robinson, negro murderers of Dallas; Frank McCue, a notorious Dallas white z man charged with murders and robberies, and Hooper Senny, a negro fiend, placed in jail here from Hopkins county some weeks ago to prevent a mob at Como from lynching him. —• When the mob at the jail became convinced the jailers would not admit them to the presence of thqse criminals, they took steel rails for battering rams and partial’.y smashed in the door and were fast demolishing the brick underpinning of the building. Then dynamite was displayed and the stern declaration made that the building would be blown up if further stubbornness was persisted in. The faller* then permitted a committee to search the jail. No prisoner wap ted by the mob could be found and the mob then dispersed.