People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — Negro Brute Lynched. [ARTICLE]

Negro Brute Lynched.

Tyler, Texas, June 12.—News reached this city that a negro named Walter Johnson had been lynched by a mob at Lufkin, Texas. Johnson had assaulted the 7-year-old daughter of Robert Schaffer, and had been arrested and lodged In jail. The negro was Identified and as soon as it was known for certain that he was the guilty fiend the sheriff was overpowered and the negro was strung up in the public square before a crowd of five hundred ffr more people.