The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-06-17
The Late Hanging IF Randall
coRREsPoE oEDEHCE THE DIsPATC n
PORT REPUBLIC, Rockingham co, Va


enclose you paper, which wss to have beer
presented by = member of the Vigilance Commit
tee, At meeting of the ci,iz ems Of this place OF
yesterday. The paper alluded 10 was not pre-
sented, as committee of gentlemen, mot mem
oers OF the Vigilance Committee presented re-
port, which was unanimously adopted and vii
shortly appear in the Rockingham papers and
others.
You can place the fullest reliance on what tie
foregoing paper states; every word Of which is
true; the only thing that can be asd by persons
wGe know Randall, ia that half has not been told
L verify believe that more base and viainous
sc1undrel never lived in this Commonwealth
To have named the different acts of which he
was guilty would preclude their publication, owing
20 his long catalogue Of crime. On yesterday a
Counterfeit engra wing plate of five dollars, Oh the
central Bank at StauEton, finely executed, was
presented by gentl enan to The Vigilance Com
mittee obtained from RandaiIs family. How
Randall came by it no one knows
handali was hung at the hour of midnight on
the eth instant, In the presence of some $50 per.
sops with great solemnity The hour " as chosen
as IL was thought bes: TO prevent the youths of
'his pace TO be present and large crowd, which
would nave collected bad the matter been public
~ koown. l will say, in order that you may form
correct opinion upon this subject, that the per
sons engaged in and belonging to the Vigilapce
Iom nlttee, are men of the highest respectablity
ana OF sterling worth Every effort was made to
obtain such evidence from him as would secure
Eim for the Penitentiary for good term of years.
out IN vain He generally employed negroes 10
execute his plans and whils. ere was not q man
in This community who had shadow of doubt Of
his guilt of all the crimes charged against him.
yet such were hia schemes aud plans that no legal
evidence could be obtained as would ensure his
conviction Hence the people had but one course
to pursue: shall he die; shall he remain at large
to execute his threats upon the lives of some of the
best of our citizens
He was treated more kindly than ever such
man before by mob, Gf you 80 cal Il When
first arrested by the Vigilance Committee, he was
allowed to go out of the State, pesceaby and 5000
raised 10 pay his expenses but instead of going
he roamed along the mountains, to raise gang of
dssperadoes to carry out satisfy his heIsh ap
petite for revenge. In conclusion | will say that
Randall was man of powerful strength and ply.
sicai proportions, snd of such mind in the opin.
ION OF ell who knew him, that, had he been pro-
pery tTained and educated, he would have had bat
few superiors in this or any other State
Yours &c, p.
Our attentive and obliging correspo odent P
sends, in the above, complete history of the an
dali case and justification of the act of the I'M.
mittee. There is nothing in the paper that has
not been published, except list of bis crimes,
which comprise those of every grade, from barn
burning up to an attempt to violate his own
daughter. The citizens of Rockingham held a
meeting and endorsed the action of the committee