The North-Carolina standard., 1842-12-21
A HORRIBLE ACCOUNT:

A HORRIBLE ACCOO1N L:
UYlfl M,1er by one hundred and thrfy-t'00 persons
From the Moderator of the 9Th Nov. pup
1;shod Of Fort Gaines. Georgia. we have the tol-
Loving horrible detail. Every man concerned IN
the atrocous act is murderer oil the deepest uye'
That paper says ,.a:u
We have learnt with feelings of pain and indlg-
nation that Barbour county, Alabama, has recent
lv been the theatre ola frightful and barbarouS
tragedy. -. tbo
Our readers will perhaps recollect that IN tne
wear 1910 the body of an individual, subsequently
3Jent;fed as that of Henry Blake, was found dead,
near private road in the county OF Barbour ne
had been murdered by some unknown manu-
GEORGE w. Lore, then citizen OF that county,
was arrested for the offence, and admtted 10 Dali
Tn the spring of 184I, he was put upon his trlal
in the county of Barbour, and the jury not beng
able to agree upon their finding, they w were als-
charged without rendering verdict L ne venue
was then at the instance OF the prisoner, cnahseu
to the county of Henry. In the fall OF that year
he was aoain put upon his trial in the county OF
Henry, and Jury of that county not being able to
aoree were also discharged without rendering
verdict In April, 1912, he was again, for the
third time put upon his trial in the county OF Hen
nv. and upon evidence purely circumstantial was
found guilty of murder. His counsel DciieVlhg
that he had not been condemned according 10 the
laws of Alabama under which he had been trled,
emit Judge and submitted the record ana the law
of the case to the Supreme Court of Alabama
That court overrulcd the decision OF the Circuit
Court. arrested its Judgment, and ordered a ne"
trial Pending this application to the Supreme
Court, and before the day fixed for his execution;
Lore escaped from the Jail of tEnfy county, and
has since been at large.
This. we understand, is plain ana succnct
narrative of the whole matter up to the lS instant,
and we wish that we could here stop. But 1t ap-
pears that about that time, prompted by some teel-
ing which we cannot divine, or perhaps governed
by that destiny which shapes all our cil,s, Lore
arain appeared in the neighborhood OF his Iormer
residence, and not FIR from the scene OF BlakeS
residence He was arrested aud marched 10 Glen
Vile where it seems mob was collectcds ana II
was nut to vote what disposition should be made
of the prisoner. We learn that two on! Of one
hundred and thirtv-two voted TO deliver him over
to the proper authorities and that the residue de-
clared for summary and capital punishment by
hanging He was accordingly marched out by
the mob from Glenvile to Spring Hill, and there.
on the 18th inst in defiance Of all iIw divine and
human, and in the face of MS prot stations OF H.
nocencc hung by the nrcil until he was dead.
1t is a foul and danlning blot upon the charac
ter of Barbour county! Every friend 10 the laws
every friend to order amd regulated Liberty,
should raise his voice against the authors OF this
outrage and hold them up to that repiobation
which they SO richly deserve, Whrther Lore was
guilty or innocent has now become a question OF
no interest to mankinl, The maj. sly Of the law
has been overthrown, and personal liberty and per
sonal security are at an end whon life itself be-
comes the sport and plaything Of sauguinary mob.
Had It been necessary to take his life to ST cure his
arrest, they would have been ustifabe or at least
excusabe But he made no resistance. The law
was sufficiently strong for fTicnIless and hunted
down man; and if he had been guilty he would
have suffered the penalty of his crime. Hcnceforh
he will be regarded, not as murderer but as
victim to the evil passions of his enemies. Guilty
or innocent his memory is relieved Of half its load
and he occupies the position Of his former accusers
for, in the eye Of the law, every who paFtici-
pated in hurrying Lore into eternity bears upon
his forhead the foul stain Of fmurder-mnrder with
out provocation and without cxcrso.