The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-01-23
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yellow BIS
TRAGEDY IN MEMPHIS We copy the
following from the Memphis Eagle Of
last Friday:
On "Wednesday evening our communi.
" was convulsed by one If those yioleni
eXcitements, before which customary bar.
rlers give way. A horrible murder was
followed by summary aud terrible pun
ishment. The details Of the tragedy, as
accuraely as we can ascertain, are these.
About 2 o'clock p NJ. of Wednesday,
anegro, accompanied by a white man,
called at the Mayors office. The object
OF the negro was to have a paper which
! purported To be a certificate Of his free.
dom from the couHty clerk Of Lincoln
county, cnuntersigned by th Mayor and
Recorder, in order that he might itavel on
the rlver. Recorder Chester al once dis
covered The certificate was forged, aud
descended into the sHeet tn have the ne
gro arrested; ne called up Messrs Bolton
| Waldran aud Frazer the latter of whom
made some remarks to'the negro relative
ru his conduct; aud Mr. Chester went in
search of a police officer to take the lie
gro in custody. Not finding one, Mr.. c
returned. He told the negro to 60 int
the Mayors Office
Mr.. Chester then turned to deliver ;
ipnperto Esq. Waldran. when immediate
ly the negro drew pistol and fired a
him, the balls entered his head nn the let
side below the ear. MIR z. fell at once
aud lived only five minutes, withou
speaking. M Frazer aud Mr.. Bradle
promptly clinched with the negro, win
attempted to use his pistol again. MI
Frazer wrested the pistol from him. an
finding that he could not discharge it q
gain. classified the negro SEVERELY. A
excited crowd at once rushed in. Shnrtl
Mr.. C.'s snm. a lad of seventeen. came in
crazed with his terrible misfortune. wa
furnished with a pistol, aud fired thre
slugs Iinto the negro's back. They in
flicted mortal wound.
The negro was hurried of to the Gala
boose. A crowd, excited to frenzy by tn,
spectacle of the dead Chester, fnlluwed d
compelled the surrender of the calaboost
keys, dragged out the negro, and in tn
view of the immense crowd. swung hir
up To the nearest tIee. He confessed lha
he was a runaway. before dying.
A private letter to a gentleman in Nasl
vile states that white man has bee
committed to Jail as an acc"mpice of III
murderer. it being supposed that the Pi'
tol was furnished by him. 1t was wit
great difficulty the citizens could be pre-
vented from hanging him also, the guar
having been doubled at the city prison.