Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 194, 22 May 1911 — Page 2

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TnEtllCIDIOXD PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM.3IOXDAY, 31 AY 22, 1911.

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NEGROES LYNCHED BY FLORIDA MOB

Mob Secures Six Victims From Jail 6y . Showing a Fake Order to jailer. Lake City, Fla., May 22. Six negroes suspected of complicity in the murder of a prominent citizen, were taken from -jail .here, "early Sunday Diorninf, carried to the suburbs of the city, tied to trees and riddled with bullets. " The negroes were got out of Jail by ten men, who claimed to bo officers and presented to the seventeen-year-old son of the Sheriff a fake telegram, which ordered him to release the negroes. The boy had been left in charge of the Jail by his father and thinking the

telegram was straight, at once allowed the 10 men to taks the six nergoes whose names were mentionedThe 10 men bad autos. In which they placed the negroes and then speeded to the outskirts of the city, where other members of the mob were waiting. The negroes were bound to trees and at a given signal the members of the mob, some 30 in all, opened fire with rifles and pistols. Volley after volley was fired until the negroes were literally cut to pieces. Little Left to Identify. When citizens went to the scene at 7 o'clock they found it almost impossible to Identify the degroes, as all semblance of humanity had been shot away. The victims of the mob were Man Norrls, Jerry Holmes, Sam Philipps, Henry Jones, Zeke Chandler and Tom Billups. The negroes had been brought here from Tallahassee to foil a mob which had threatened to lynch them. They were accused of killing Robert B. Smith, of Leon county, a wealthy

lumberman, and of wounding two oth,er white men.

It Is said that the men "who lynch

ed the negroes came from Tallehasse,

more than 100 miles away,-and it is

claimed that they made the trip Saturday night In autos to avoid suspicion.

They evidently knew that the sheriff

of this county was away and that only

his seventeen-year-old son was In

charge of the Jail.

The message which the leader of the mob showed to the boy purported to be from the Sheriff of Leon county and ordered the delivery of the negroes to the bearer. The boy, Just aroused from sleep, complied at once and delivered the negroes to the men, who had travelled all night to kill them. The first the people of Lake City knew of trouble was when volley after volley of shots was heard about

sun-uo. The firing continued for a

long time, and when Investigation was made the lynching was disclosed. The men who went to the Jail were not disguised and the boy thinks he could identify some of them.

MEXICO 110 PLACE FOR HISHMJIII

Mexican Method of Fighting

Too Coarse for a Gallant Irish Soldier.

(American News Service) Houston. Tex May 22. It- H. Sarsfield, soldier of fortune and descendant of the Ugh tin' Sarsfields of Limerick," also son of Commander- J. F. Sarsfield of the British navy, likes an Irish fight, but not the ambushing, guerilla, stab-in-the-back style now go

ing on along the Mexican border. So Sarsfield renounced the cause of the Insurrectos in Mexico, swajn the Rio Grande to the United States and came to Houston looking for a wife and money from home. Sarsfield since hobnobing 'with the

Mexican rebels has become a man of peace. He wants to get home to Iretana now. but he wants to take an American wife with him. He has had enough of the continental adventurers be says, but they would be complete, he believes, without first annexing a beautiful American girl for a wife, so he gave notice through Houston papers of his determination. "Just advertise in your paper for a wife for me tomorrow," he confided to a reporter. "Tve got money at home and a ine place to live, I'll make her happy. She must be pretty and good. Just slip over a little story about me wanting to take back an American bride."

, Sarsfield got his fill of , a Mexican revolution in a few short sputtering engagements. Then he wanted to come back. He couldntget by the soldiers guarding the frontier he says, so he slipped into the cactus along the Rio Grande and at night swam over, came to Houston and immediately telegraphed home for money. Sarsf eld had heard of the revolution and he wanted to join. So crossing the border he ran into an insurrecto cap the first thing. "I met some of the rebs." he said. "I couldn't talk to 'em, but I motioned I wanted a gun. They gave me a big one, and we ail went out and popped

at some federals. got some of 'era, too." "How did you do when you left the army?" he was asked. , "Did you re aignr : -if. . : -:: - ' ; -r y ,4"; "Laid down my gun, watched for a chance and beat it." he remarked; then apologized for bis seeming desertion hy saying: "You see, there is no regular enlistment. You Just fight when you feel like it. You don't feel, like it long when any minute you can. see a greaser step out from behind a tree and begin tocarve his monogram ' on your back before you've got a chance. to load up" On MayT237 we t will have special -prices on a!T hats 7 South 7th street

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