Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — TWONEGROES ARE LYNCHED BY MOB [ARTICLE]

TWONEGROES ARE LYNCHED BY MOB

Farmers at Cape Girardeau. Mo.< Storm Jail and Hang Men. TWO MS ARE UNKNOWN The Men Were Heard Talking Over the Details of the Murder of a Farmer Named Foe Found Shot and Beaten in Road. Cape Girardeau. Mo., July 4 Twc negro men were taken from the jail' early Sunday morning and lynched by a crowd of 3--0 whites, most of them teeing farmers who had been aroused from their slumbers in an hour s time' The negroes were both strangers and their names unknown and had been employed as harvest hands by a farmer Hving three miles from Charleston. Paring the night the two negroes • went into the barn where they had been sleeping Three white men in the barn overheard the -negroes talking of a killing, waited until the negroes had gone to sleep and then made search and by the road side found the body of the man who had been shot and also had been beaten with rocks. They went to Galveston and notified 1 the sheriff.

The negroes were arrested at 4 o'clock and taken to Charleston, jail and by 5 o’clock a crowd of farmers assembled at the jail and after battering down the doors took the two negroes out. One was hanged to a tree in the court house yard and his body riddled with bullets The other negro was strung up to a telegraph pole and his body shot full of bullets. The man whom the negroes had murdered was a farmer named William Foe.