Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1912 — ANGRY MOB LYNCHES NEGRO [ARTICLE]

ANGRY MOB LYNCHES NEGRO

Body of Assailant of White Girl Is Riddled With Thousand* of Bullets. Bluefield, W. Va., Sept 6—When they were informed that troops from the strike section along Paint creek would be rushed to the scene by Governor Glasscock, the mob of nearly 800 angry men heavily armed who stormed the Princeton jail Wednesday and took Walter Johnson, negro, accused of assaulting a young white girl, from his cell and have since had him in their custody, just at midnight last night lynched their prisoner. The negro was hung to a tail tree and while in a dying condition his body was literally torn to small pieces by being pierced by thousands of shots from Winchester rifles fired by the mob.