The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-08
Diabolical Outrage at Evansville, Ind.
"A White Woman Violated by Ne
groes-They Attempt to Murder Her.

Diabolical Outrage at Evansville, Ind.
| "A White Woman Violated by Me-
groes-They Attempt to Murder Her.
From the Evansville Journal, July 3l1
| Much excitement was produced in this |
city early yesterday morning by reports |
| that crime heretofore, we believe I'M |
heard of in this vicinity, had been per-
| petrated near this city. The facts as we
| ascertain them are about as follows -
About o'clock yesterday morning a
Mrs. Dullinger, who lives some distance
! in the country, was on her way to the
| city to attend church, when near the
residence of Mr.. E. J. Dobell, she was
attacked by two negroes. She being q
stout woman, about 45 or so years ofage,
made for time successful resistance,
when one Of the brutes drew pocket
knife and cut her several times severely
| in the face, neck and shoulder. Grow
| ing faint from loss of blood, she was
| overpowered by the brutes and dragged
| across a fence into a cOrn-field, where
her person was violated by both, who
| then made q deliberate attempt to kill
her, but were frightened away by hear
ing persons approaching. The whole
neighborhood was quickly aroused and
turned out in search of the fiends. In
the mean time, the half-murdered wo-
man was conveyed home, and physi-
clans called to her assistance; who report
her in O critical condition. DiIigent
search was made for the perpetrators of
the horrrid crime, and young negro,
named Joe Coins, was arrested by off,
GERS Jewett and Long, brought to town,
and lodged in Jail; but it was not then
known that be was participation in the
crime. Late in the afternoon the other
brute was pointed out to Joe Westboro
and his brother by negro boy, and was
by them arrested and brought to town
and lodged in Jail. We We're unable to
learn his name. He lived near West
borois, beyond Pigeon Greek, near the
railroad. We are informed that he made
a confession of the diabolical crime, inn
plicatipg the boy Joe. Upon searching
him the knife was found, bloody, and
his clothes were bloody, though he had
made an effort to wash the blood from
his shirt. There were also found on his
person a razor, the earrings of their VIC
tim, which had been literally torn from
her ears, and over 81 in money. The
boy Joe, we understand, acknowledged
getting 81 from the other negro. The
amount of money taken from the WO-
man was about SIS. This revolving out
rage has created much feeling in the
city, and the infamous and british
wretehes will no doubt receive, as they
deserve, the severest punishment OF the
law.
LATER-THE NEGROES LYNcHEp.
| from the Evansville Journal, August !.
The two negro brutes, who so fiend-
ishly maltreated white woman on
Sunday, fearfully expiated their crime
yesterday afternoon
Early yesterday morning a crowd of
excited people commenced collecting
around the courthouse andjail demand
ing that the prisoners be delivered up to
them. The demand was refused, of
course, and at noon the crowd dispersed,
and it was hoped that better counsels
would prevail, and that the guilty wretch
es would be left to the regular course of
law.
But after noon the crowd assembled
again, and the excitement had evident
ly increased, and continued to increase
until about 81 o'clock, when the front
A door of the Jail building was broken
omen, with a sledge hammer, and the
crowd rushed into the Jail. How they
reached the prisoners we did not learn,
but they were soon dragged forth into
the street, beaten down with clubs and
shot.
After they were dead they were taken
up and hanged to lamp-post on the
corner of the street, where they were
hanging at late hour in the evening"
They were, ultimately, We learn, taken
down and buried.
1t was the first scene of the kind ever
enacted in Evansville, and, for the falr
',me of the city, we hope it will be the
II.
last cry one execrates the a6ominaole
EN> utal crime committed by the ne
ana % ,slt mob law is dangerous RENE,
groes, ~ lis of this or any kind, ana an
dy for ev, g deplore a resort to 1t; ana
good citizen. aarful and summary pun
we hope this l., We such warning that
ishment will pro. hear of such acrime
we shall neveragaih
in our midst. o>-r
A STEAMER BURNED-AN 'e9uss l.
E XPLODED.-NeU Orleans, A.. Oh cot
The steamer Lille, with 700 bales ives
ton, was burned on the river. No.
were lost.
The steamer Joseph Pierce exploded !,
twenty miles below Vicksburg, and sub :
waters edge, killing six and wounding y
twenty eight soldiers. The steam passed i
through every part of the boat :
The steamer Dove was boarded by rob- :
bers on Sunday afternoon on the Yazoo :
river, and was robbed of twenty thous- !
and dollars. The thieves opened an in :
fire on, the passengers, :
wounding several of them.
Gov. Hamilton reached Houston on {,
the Goth, en- route for Austin. He met
with warm reception at Houston. /,
The Houston Telegraph mentions the
arrival of officers of Shelby's party.
Shelby encamped near Monterey with ,
four hundred or five hundred men, and
sold his artillery and other plumber, and
was trying to get grant of land.
Adams Express Company has opened
several offices in Texas.
Wanted, to form matrimonial con-
nection for young lady of color, aged
an orphan, having q for