Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1901 — Mob Hangs Three Negroes. [ARTICLE]

Mob Hangs Three Negroes.

Three negroes, two women and one man, mother, daughter and son, implicated in the murder of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Taliferro, were taken from the jail at Carrollton, Miss., and hanged. Ten more negroes, implicated by the confession of one of the women hanged, are in jail and may meet death at the hands of the mob. Governor Longlno, hearing of the threats of violence, rushed here by special train. He was too late to prevent the triple lynching, but with the aid of leading citizens may save the ten others. The negroes hanged were Betsy McCray; her son, Belfield McCray, and daughter, Ida McCray. The crime for which they were hanged was the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Taliferro, on the night of July 30.