Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1887 — JUDGE LYNCH’S WORK. [ARTICLE]

JUDGE LYNCH’S WORK.

Victims of Mol> Violence anil Their Crimes— Hangings, Shootings, and Burnings. JANUARY. Two negroes—Emmott Key and Nat Forbes—entered the house of E T. Carroll in Sunflower County, Mississippi, and asked for some apples ; while Carroll xvas stooping to supply their wants they drove a hatchet into his head, then took -300 and a watch from his person; the culprits were captured and suspended from a bridge. At the Schuyler (Neb. Ijnil a prisoner named I.atour killed hkeriff John Degnan xvith a pieoe of scantling; Latour xvas taken from tho jail and hanged by a mob. Holly Epps, colored, xvas taken from jail at Vincennes, Ind., and hanged by a party of twenty men Greene County, where the culprit' kilted Farmer Dobson ; and att mpted to assault his wife. Sidney Broxvn (colored) xvas strung up at Rochedule. Texas, for the murder of a farmer named Ford. Calvin Simpson, a mulatto, for the bnjtal murder of Mrs. Graves in Henderson County, hontucky, xvas taken from jail and hauged. Citirons of husanville, Cal., honied in the court-house yard two convicted murderers, an Indian uud a Mexican, named Dick and Olinas. FEBRUARY. A notorious colored desperado named James xvns hnnied by citizens ol Beauregard, La.; he confessed to one murder, the burning of sex-era I bouses, and th-intention to kill five persons were ho ot libertc. The minions of Judge Lynch oboyoil liis behests in tho following instances during February: John Ferry, at Red Cliff. Colo., for killing Mike Gleason ; George Kobinsi u .colored), who killed Millard F. Furkt r at' Monroe. La. ; a negro named Burns at Martiusbur :, \V. Va., after confessing to au assault upou a xvhite girl. MARCH. V. A. Witcher, an orator aud politician, xvas lynched in, southwestern Virginia for the murder of his fifth wife. An Indian Territory mob reported the mysterious disappearance of a lecherous exhorter named Murgll, whom they were taking to Vmita for trial ter assault upon an -Indian girl John. Martin and Tin mas ATchsrr, three brothers, S-cused of murder, xvere takeu from jail ait Sl o-ds. Ind., by a mob and lvnched. Handy Woodward .colored), xvho attempted to ai-ar.lt a child, was taken from jail at Russellville. Kv.. by masked meu. aud hanged At Auburn. Ky., three negroes were summarily hauged by a mob for a criminal a-sault. upon the daughter of a prominent citizen. 2Jf.be Williams and Weakley Ridley, both negroes, were hanged to a tree at Alamo, Tenn., for the murder of Daniel Guthrie. Fred Villerssa. an Italian, was taken from jail at Vicksburg, Miss., by a mob aud hanged ; his crime was au outrageous assault. Forty citizens of Anthouv, Kan , took from the .sheriff the two btotlers Weaver Imprisoned for murder), and shot them todeath.’the tragedy being witnessed bv the mother of the victims and the wife of oiie of them. Kellis Moorman .colored, was lynehed at Axton, Va., for assault and robbery. APRIL. At Springfield, Mo,, cn the fifth, Gex. E. Graham. xx if e-murderer, was taken from the jail by a mob of 3f® meu, and strung up to a tree ; wheii the niob unlocked Graham s celt he greeted them with the remark : "You can hing me, but bv G—d, you can't scare me." Mend.'Jones, a colored out.aw, was killed by lynchers at Auburn. Ky. for a criminal attempt upon two" white girls, whose room he had entered, — MAY... . ' . ... Albert Smith, a negro laborer, killed his employer. Maj. W. P. Green, a sugar planter, near” New Orleans; Smith was taken from jail and banged to a tree. Dan and Sam Mann were strong up by a mob at Bartow, Fla., for killing the marshal of that place. JUNE. During the month mobs inflicted summary punishment in the following cases: Alfred Long, who murdered A. J. Mcßride and wife and burned their bodies, near Lexington, N. C. Charles Whittle (coloredi, accused of assaulting the child of a clergyman. Ole Beckvolt, near Grand Forks. Owenyamaited. for assault upon his 16-year-old sister-in-law, taken faom jail at Hebron, Neb., and hanged to a tree bv masked men. W. P. Pruitt, lynched near Sipe springs, Comanche Countv, Texas, for conspiring to murder J. O. Hoetetter. The . wanton murder of Marshal John Cower at Detroit City, Minn., by a gambler named William

Kohlih-n. was speedily followed by tha lynching of the latter, who was strung up to a tree and then riddled with bullets. Ed Williams (colored) suffered death upon an impromptu scaffold at Galnesvillq, Texas, for criminal assault upon a white woman. L ' JULY. George Parker, colored, forj assault upon a white woman, had summary justice meted out to hlm at Pearlington, Miss Sidney Davis was •n trial at Morgan, Texas, for outrage, when the proceedings wers interrupted by the arrival of 500 men, who hanged the culprit. Steve BenTroe, a* notoribu* outlaw and desperado, was hanged by a mob at Livingston, Ala. Jake Bra wel, colored, horribly maltreated Dolly Woods, a six-year-old girl on her way to school; Braawoil was captured, and a conference of one hundred whites and blacks gave him the choice of being burned or hanging himself; he chose hanging, climbed a tree, and fastened a rope around h&a own neck and to a limb of a tree, when he was pushed off and hit body riddled with bullets. At Frisco, Kan., a posse in pursuit of a murderer surrounded a stable whore the fugitive was concealed, and upon the latter refusing to surrender be was killed by a volley of bullets. Bill Haley, a murderer, was taken from the jail at Paulding, Ohio, by a masked mob and hanged to a tree. Porter Sorrell, colored, was shot to death by u mob In Luling, Texas; be bad assaulted Mrs. Duke with a hatchet In Comanche County, Texas, a mob hanged a negro hoy who had assaulted and murdered Mrs. Stephens; the lynchers were bent on burning him. hut the mother of the murdered woman plead d for a less barbarous punishment. A man named Lockwood was lynched near Litchfield, Conn., for the murder of a young lady named Mattie Randall, whom be encountered at a lonely spot on the highway ; Lqckwood was tortured by being shot in the back, and then a negro plunged a knife through his neck; he was then strung up to a tree. Citizens of Seymour. Ind., lynched I.e.inder Moody, a well-known desperado of Oakland, 111., for au assault upon a young girl. AUGUST. Ex-Policemnn Jim Moore, of Macon. Ga., was applied to for information by a stranger, a lady from Savannah, whereupon he procured a hack, enticed her to an assignation house, and with a pistol to her head compelled her submission; when the fact became known an angry crowd hanged him to a tree. Judge Lynch inflicted summery punishment upoirdivers culprits during the month as follow s ■ John Shorts.of Searcy. Ark., wife-murder; an unknown tramp who robbed and murdered John S. Davis, agent of the O. and M. It, R., at Huron, Ind.; Win. Watkins, bricklayer, at Aurora, Ind., xvas dragged to a xvatertauk and banged, with h,is hands untied—he had killed his employer, I.ouiß Hilbert, a contractor; citizens o; Jackson, Tepn., banged Eliza Woods, a negro cook, accused of poisoning a white woman. John and Leandor Nelson were hanged from a bridge near Magnolia. La. -At Vicksburg, Miss., a negro boy of 18, who killed Mrs. Davis, wife of This employer, jvith a hoe, was shot to death by neighbors. All of the above xvere punished for murder. Three negroes at McNutt Lake, Miss., were hanged by citizens for attempted assault upon some young ladies. ! ... SEPTEMBER. David Johnson, a lunatic, w*ho killed Edward White in the street at' Western Port, Md., was seized by Citizens and suspended to a bridge over the Potomac; his neck xvas broken. A negro named Wilkerson xyas, riddled with bullets near Milieu, Ga., for" criminal assault. Bowman Paxton, a druggist, banged to a tree ate Malden, Mo., for murder. L. F. Symmes, charged with murder, was taken from the authorities at Montrose, Col., and hanged. OCTOBER. The people of Quincy, Fla., lynched two men suspected of firing a new mill. Masked men at Steelville, Mo., lynched R. P. Wallace, the alleged murderer of the Logan family of five persons—father, mother, anff three children; Other culprits who fell victims to mob law during October were : Tom Farrar, a negro, who assaulted Miss Lizzie Murray and afterward murdered her father at Throckmorton,, Texas. Thomas Israel, a negro, for brutally assaulting a ten-year-old white girl at Rocky Ford, Ga. Vigilantes of Montrose, Col , took from jail a notorious man-blayer named John McLees, and hanged him to a gate-beam. Masked men' at Monticello, 111., took out of jail and hanged Henry Wildman, a wife-murderer. Three negroes in Pickens County, Alabama, suspected of incendiarism—strung up. Jamea Haynes, a murderer, was taken from jail at Brownsville, Miss., and hanged: all parties—the murdered victim, lynchei s, and lyhehod—colored. A mulatto named Hewey quarreled with Samuel Day over four pounds of cottoii at Bad Springs, Texas; Day was killed, Hewey was followed by bloodhounds, captured un<p suspended to a tree. .

NOVEMBER. Samuel Purple surrendered to the Sheriff of Hodgeman Coimty, Kansas, after killing his xvife and two children ; but a mob look him out of jail and hanged him to a tree. Other culprits upon whom lynch law xvas visited during' the month xvere : Andrew J. Mulligan, alias James Page, at Harrison, Ark., for murder. Charles TYmxviddie,.at McKenzie, Tenn., rubbery. Elias Simmons, colored, sho: to death while asleep at Minden, La. John Davis.colored, ,t Randolph, Ala., for repeated criminal assaults upon white women. Three incendiaries who burned a cotton gin house in Franklin County, Miss., were “lost in the xvoods" xvhile being takeu to jail. Four negro murderers xvere strung up in the Choctaxv Nation for killing George Tr.tafe, who came upon them wliila they xvere cleaning a hog they had stolen. Ciesar Robinson was hanged by a mob at Florence, S. C., for assault upon a white woman. DECEMBER. The town of Brenham, Texas, was invaded at midnight by a masked mob who took from the jail Shea Felder, Alfred Jones and Ephraim Jones (murderers), xvho xvere found next morning hanging to a tree. George Parks and Monroe Smith, colored, charged xvitii incendiarism, were lynched at Ringgold, Ga. James Howard, of Bowie County, Texas, who branded, his 14r year-old wife with tho letter “H,” was taken from jail and lynched by his neighbors. Near Harmony, Ga., Frank Handers butchered John Swilling, his wife, and three children—his purpose being to secure S.O; he was Ranged by the neighbors of his victims. Factor Jones and Dick Bullock, murderers, were riddled with bullets by their neighbors in the Chootaxv Nation. Wm. Miissels, murderer, was suspended from an electric-light tower by leading citizens of Eaton. O. TJic Usual Awful Result. Jones—You remember there were thirteen at the table at dinner at my Ijouse last night ?j Brown— Yes. Jones—Well, young De Peyster died this morning. Brown —My! Is that possible! I was looking for something of that kind. Jones —Yes, the poor fellow was talked to death by the Boston girl who sat next him. —Arkansaw Traveler. Karth -warmed Water. The earth’s internal heat is no& being forced into practical service at Pesth, where the deepest artesian well in the world is being sunk, to supply hot water for public baths and other purposes., A depth of 12J feet has been reached, and tbe well supplies daily 176,(100 gallons of water heated to 158 degrees 1* ahrenlieit. The bor ngis to be continued until the temperature of the water is raised to 176 degrees. They Tasted Queer. “Where did yon get the cheese that is in these sandwiches, my love ?” “On the window-seat in the .mokehouse. ” “Yon ignoramus! You have cut up the bar of soap that I was saving for next week’s wash. No wonder your sandwiches tasted bad.”— Carl PretzeVs Weekly. How He Took Life. “See that man across the street?” “Yea." —■ “Well, he’s one of those men who take life easily.” “He is! Why, he*looks like a hardworking man.” “Well, so he is.'. He’s a butcher, and a good one too, they say.” Pittsburgh Dispatch. ~"Whis?u a man-speaks to a lamp-post, and.- cautions it not to “bob rornad at such a rate,” iij shows that the post is getting irregulkr in its and needs looking after.