The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-08-04
Black Crime In IndIana-SHtft Pan.
iShment.


A NEGRO OUrRAgEs A WHITE WoMAx
AND ATTEMPTS TO MURDER HER-Much
excitement was produced in this city
early yesterday morning by reports that
a crime heretofore, we believe, unheard
of In this vicinity, had been perpetra-
ted near this city. The facts as we
ascertain them are about as follows:
About G o'clock yesterday morning a
Mrs. DullingeI, who lives some distance
in the country, was on her way to the
CITY to attend church, and when she
was near the residence of Mr., E. J.
Doben she was attacked by two negroes
She being a stout woman, about forty
five or fifty years of age, made for a
time a successful resistance, when one
| of the brUtes drew a pocket-knife and
cut her several times severely in the
face, neck and shoulder. Growing faint
from loss of blood, she was oyerpow-
cred by the brutes and dragged across
a fence into a corn. field, where her
person was violated by both, who then
made a deliberate attempt to kin her,
but we're frightened away by hearing
persons approaching.
The whole neigborhood was quickly
aroused and turned out in search of the
fends. In the meantime the half
murdered woman was conveyed home
and physicians called TO her assistance,
who report her in 8 critical condition.
Diligent search was made for the
perpetrators of the horrid crime, and q
Young neg named Joe. Coins was
arrested BY officers Jewett and Long,
brought to town and lodged in jail, but
it was not then known that he was 9
participation in the crime. Late in the
afternoon the other brute was pointed
out TO zoe Wesboro and his brother by
a negro boy, and wa by them arrested
and brought to town aud lodged in jail.
We were unable to learn his name
He Hvednear Wesboro's, beyond Pigeon
creek, near the railroad.
We are informed he made a confes
sion of the diabolical crime, implica
ting the boy Joe. Upon searching hin
the knife was found bloody, and hi
clothes were bloody, though he had
made an effort to wash the blood from
his shirt There were also found OF
his person q razor, the earrings of then
victim, which had been literally tori
from her ears. and over seven dollar
in honey The boy Joe, we under
stand, acknowledged getting one dollal
from the other negro. The amount o
money taken from the woman wa
about SIS.
The revolving outrage has created
a.r~lI larl.nr -. 4ha rsfu and tho info
nous and british wretohes will nc
doubt receive, as they deserve, the
severest punishment of the law.-EOans
uiHs (had) Journal Sunday
A HORRIBLE CRIME TERHBLY ExPIATED
The two negro brutes, who so fiend
ishly maltreated a white woma on
Sunday, fearfully expiated their crime
yesterday afternoon.
Early yesterday morning a crowd o.
excited people commenced collecting
around the Court House and Jail, de
manded that the prisoners be delivered
up to them. The demand was refused.
of course, and at noon the crowd dis
persed, and it was hoped that better
counBels would prevail and that the
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regular course of law. .
But, after noon, the crowd assembled
again, and the excitement had evident
ly increased, and continued TO increase
until about 3 o'clock, when the FROM
door of the jail building was broker
open with a sledge hammer and the
crowd rushed into the Jail How they
reached the prisoners we did not learn
but t~hey.were soon dragged forth into
the street, beaten down with clubs and
shot
After they were dead they were taken
up and hanged to a lamp post on the
corner of the street, where they were
hanging at a 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 fair
fame of the city, we hope it win be the
last
Every one exeorates the abominable
and brutal crime committed by the ne
groes, but mob law is a dangerous rem.
edysfor evils of this OF of any kind, and
all good citizens deplore 3 resort to it,
and we hope this fearful and summary
punishment will prove such a warning
as that We shall never again hear OF
such a crime in our midst-EoansviNs
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