People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — TWO NEGROES LYNCHED. [ARTICLE]

TWO NEGROES LYNCHED.

Friends of a Murdered Constable Avenge His Death at Summerville, Ga. Summerville, Ga., Oct 20.—Tuesday night the jail of Chattanooga county was visited by two men claiming to be constables. They had with them a man whom they represented to be a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment The jailer was thus induced to open the doors of the building, when a hundred armed men suddenly appeared and took possession of the jail. They seized Bill Richards and Jim Dickson, two colored prisoners, and after tying them hand and foot threw their bodies across two horses and rode off in the darkness. Nothing has been heard of the marauders except that they rode into the swamp near Trion factory, where the two negroes were put to death. The crime for which the men lynched were in prison was the mur’der of Constable James Hall and the shooting of Town Marshal Murphy, of Summerville.