Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1894 — A NEGRO LYNCHED. [ARTICLE]

A NEGRO LYNCHED.

Ravtoher Hashed Rapidly at Rushsj-Iva nia, O. Seymour Newlin. a negro, committed an assault upon an aged woman named Mrs. Knowles, Saturday night, at Rushsylvania, Logan county, Ohio. He was captured Sunday morning, but when the sheriff arrived from Beliefontaine to take charge of tho prisoner, a mob which had already collected refused to give him up. A call was then made on the militia and a company left Beliefontaine, Sunday afternoon, for the scene of trouble. The crowd at Rushsylvania was apprised of the departure of the military, and long before their arrival l,. r O3 armed citizens had massed around the calaboose. The men declared that the prisoner must not bo removed from the lockup. Sheriff Sullivan, who was in command of the soldiers, was informed that there were_six dynamite cartridges under the calaboose, and if any attempt was made to fire a gun or fix a bayonet the building and prisoner would be blown* into eternity. After parleying for some time the soldiers wer" withdrawn. At 9p. m. the mob made a raid on the calaboose. The building was overturned and tho struggling negro quickly taken from it. A rope had been provided, and tho noose was put about the neck of the trembling wretch in a jiffy. He was dragged to a cottonwood tree about one hundred yards distant, very little being said and no opportunity given to the prisoner to make a confession or statement. A dozen willing hands grasped tho rope and the negro was swung Into the air. As soon as tho work was finished the mob quietly dispersed.