People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — A TEXAS LYNCHING. [ARTICLE]

A TEXAS LYNCHING.

Henry Reynolds Kills- a- Father, Mutilatcc Two Children and. Assaults the Mother —Hanged by a Mob*. Montgomery, Ttex;,. Aug. 3.—The most diabolical crime ever committed in this county was perpetrated about 9 miles north of this- place last Sunday night. A negro named Henry Reynolds entered the house of Mr. Marsh, murdered him, dragged his body oht in the yard, them returned and broke the leg of the oldest son, aged 8; fractured the skull of the baby, 1 year old;, dragged the mother out in the yard, assaulted her and left her for dead. Ha- re turned next day at noon to find Mrs, Marsh still alive and said he had come- back to finish her, but was discovered amd captured before he could complete his crime. He was fully identified*- and Monday even* ing, on the scene of his crime, by many willing hands was swung into eternity.