People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — MET A JUST FATE. [ARTICLE]

MET A JUST FATE.

Infuriated Georgians Take a Brute from Jail and Lynch Him.

Arlington, Ga.. May 23.—Last Friday evening the 14-year-old daughter of Washington Smith, living near here was assaulted and outraged by a negro, while returning from school. The negro met with desperate resistance and after firing his pistol over her head several times plunged a knife into her side. At this moment Mr. Smith came up on horseback and the negro fired three bullets into his body and fled. Neighbors found the father and daughter insensible on the road and took them home. Mr. Smith died Sunday morning and the daughter is not expected to live. Sheriff Wilkins captured the negro Sunday afternoon and he placed him under a strong guard in the Miller county jail. At 3 o’clock Monday morning an armed band of seventyfive men stormed the jail and took the negro to,an oak tree in the public square. They hung him to the tree, and fired fully 300 bullets into his body.