South Bend News-Times, Volume 33, Number 274, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 30 September 1916 — Page 7

THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES Saturday aitttknooy. snrTr.MP.Tn: ..'. KILLED 3C 3C

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Pastor Halts First Attempt on One But Crowd Returns.

Irfrnat; -r.il NV-xs Srxi -: NitWATA, Okl.t., .Sept. -.'. Tw'j .'eirroes accused of ! i r i -C impheatd in th" kiWin- of leputy Sheriff Janus tlibson. du rim: a delivery , here Friday, were taken from the ail Ly a rn'h tor.Hfht and lynched la front of the ourt house. I'Jeas of the Kf v. Mr. Pierce, a Methodist minhter, ?irlior in th?

miner, oercarne the thrift fori

entreance of ;i nm' of l'.f.o person who had 1 r : i 1 a .'es'io through th- j-treets and started to li.inir Iiis unconscious lonn to a tree in the I'ar:-nit;it:e yard. Tin: words of th'-mini-ur qui i the lure. crou'il which thromred the yard and the hwinin" N'-To was tut down and taken to jai. Fvenhi culminating in the douM IWiChintr moved with dramatic .vwiftnesx. Tim.: Nc;'ro prisoners -ffected an escape from Hi county :ail late today. They were discover d in the act hy Sheriff Janus May, who was knocked down and robbed of hi.i pistol. Gibson SJiot to Iutli. libson went to Iiis aid and was' hot to death. It was only a frw minutes after the. Negroes had rained their freedorn that a mob bent on vengeance, Ava.s in close pursuit. Two of the Negroes took refuse in a house in the outskirts of Nowata, where they were surrounded ;uui re-arrcsted. The third Neyro apparently made ;;ood his escape. One of tho rearrested Nesroes, John Foreman, filleted to have been the man who killed flihson. was wounded when taken into custody and was not molested hut the tin wounded Ncirro w.vs eizcd ,y the moh, which had ;:rown to laro proportions and a parade through the principal streets bHan with the .-tcro screamin--j'or mercy at a rope's end. When the mob reached tho Methodist church, n. lartre tree with outspreading branches, offered the opportunity which tho rope around tho Negro's: J:eck sm-rested. Pastor Appears. "Let's lynch the NY&rn on holy Pound" shouted sonic one in the rowd. Tho prisoner was swunn' Hear of tho sround and was beinir. .hoked to death when Mr. Pierce fippcared, attracted fron his study in the Ton.u-e by the Negro's ch ains. He rushed from the house inf the midst of the crowd and heran his pleadings for the Seemingly gloomed man's life. The mob paused in its work to hear what the minister bi,i

... . - w 4 V'rOflJ.l "Men, I beseech ou in the name I

.t iod not to desecrate tliin holy "round." pleaded .Air. Pierce. "Do not stain the name of oxir city by :i!' into this terrible affair." U ith reat t ai neatness, he demanded that the law be- allowed to take its eoare. Tive minutes tl. pastor spoke, until one of the mob lenders, turning to his fellows, said: "Men. Mr. Pierce is right. Take the Negro hack to jail and kt the 1 iw take its course." Ti e mob, sobered by the word of the pastor, and the assumption f leadership taken by one of its members, Ud the Negro back to jail. Nowata wa.s (uit following the episode, hut quiet was only the lull before a storm. 31oI Carries Out Work. Shortly after the linner hour Foreman and the Negro who had b.-en n-sctied from the mo! in the afternoon and who had given the name of "Sunny" Powell, to the jail authorities were taken from the jail by another and larger mob of iti-;--ns. Foreman was strung up to a lamp pest near the court house and Powell va.s hanged from a tree a f.M- feet distant. The sheriff w-.

not at th' jail when the mob fought ' ntrancc. The deputies left to guard I the Negroes were pushed aide and !

'"ii'N into fui tunision.

WESTERN MINERS TO QUIT

. I Coal Workers in Washington ,MX-k '

Tivo lVri-rnt Waco Iiutcum. SriATTI.l:. Wash.. ..pt. :;o..-us-k-enion of w(;rk Saturday night by all coal miners in Washington belonging to the Fnited Mine Workers of America, w. enb red Fridav by the ditrut mrurntion. Th- suT'onsion "as onhrtd to p, mit a referendum ,-te of the miners' on tho eourrtr propositi. , Mihmitud by the operators to the miner dc- ...... .i ....

increase.

Wage

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