Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-10-14
The LATE OUfRAsE.
THE TOR LYycHED.
He Is Hung BY the People.
Full Particulars Of the Affair.

In last evenings STAR we Published a
special dispatch giving an account OF the
angling by an excited AID indignant crowd OF
the villain who committed the outrage on q
young lady Of this city, in Prince Georges
county Md. The Alexandra Gazette Of last
evening s;ves the folio wing particulars Of the
affair:
In Yesterdays Gazette was published an &C.
count Of the outrage of yoang lady near Fort
Washington. and OF the arrest Of the supposed
criminal. The following sceount Of the whole
affair Is obtained from a gentleman who lives
"a the neignoorhood of the scene OF the occur.
renee, and 10 acquainted with all the partic.
ulars:
On Saturday last a coloreA man named
Thomas Juli1<, VINO came from Nontgomery
county, Maryland, and who, with a wife aud
child, has beeR living with Mr.. Thos. Adams
for year past, while standing IN the door OF
the quarters In which ne lived, 50 " the lady
upon whom, on Monday laat, he made the as
her way way to the S saP q Fort wssninston,
and remarked to q colored woman named Lucy
Ford that she was well holped now, but
woula be better helped in few days" On
Just returned from Washington, where her
family live, was met ~ the steamboat wharf at
Fort Washington bv young gentleman Of her
acquaintance, and escorted in buggy to within
q quarter Of miles distance of the house in
which abe taught school, where the road turned
of, and from which point she intended to walk
When about two hundred yards from the
school-house, and within hearing of the child.
ren's voices, who were playing there, she was
approached from beh nd by her assailant, who
was In the woods with q wagon hauling rails,
kicked, choked, thrown To the grou I'D and out.
RACED but the sounds Of Mr.. Eckert's saiuta.
ton TO the school children, as that gen tlemeu
passed the school-house, alarmed hum, and he
Ned before he had murdered her, rs was his
denfintention. When Mr. Eckert found her
she was lying quietly on the ground. fearing
to move lest the villain should return and,
nndins her alive, Kill her. Mr.. Eckert carried
her TO the house Of Mr.. Rennoe. who lives
within Two hundred yards OF the scene of the
outrage, where he left her in the hands of
:n which he was soon joined By forty or nifty
residents OF the neighb0r hood.
The outrage was committed between and
10 O'Clock Monday, and about IL o'clock the
Perpetratsr was arrested by Captain Beasley
and Mr.. Alexander Rennoe, a quarter of q mile
from the scene of the crime, taken to Piscata.
way, examined before Justice Brooke, and by
, MIN, IN tns absence OF the principal witness,
safekeeping until the following day. There is
no jail IN Piscataway, and as a means OF pre-
caution the criminal was chained to another
eolored man named james Jackson. who had
been arrested on suspicion of being the guilty
party, and the TWO were guarded all night by
an armed possee OF citizens. About II O'Clock
that night an attempt was made to take him
from his guards and hang him, but the counsel
OF those who wanted TO hear the evidence i'm
the case prevailed, and the effort was not sue.
csssful.
were taken to the house Of Captain Beasley.
where the unfortunate young lady had been
brought, and examined by Justice Brooke
jackson was discharged. but Julius was at
once Identified, and committAl made out
against him for court, and In charge Of Oon-
stables John Underwood and Anthony Ander-
son ne was Immediately started In q wagon for
Marlboro. the county seat. At his REQ nest he
In al NIT
oye. While the wagon was standing in front
OF MS mouse, 1t was approached by about
twenty men, dressed only In their shirts and
drawers-oEe only in q shirt-and with hand.
kerchlefs with pierced eye-hoIes tied over
their heads, who, aftsr tying Constable I'm.
had attempted to defend mis-
MIN from the wagon. and
made Deputy Constable Anderson drive the
vehicle to piece OF woods q short dis lance OF.
The wagon was tSen 0u a is t be- on. o, ~.
mas kers under q large white oak tree. and a
moose having been adjusted over q horizontal
.Imn, ,ne prisoner, VINO was handcufed, was
moose, ne was made TO get on the drivers seat
Wnen Inc moose was put around his neck and
ne wagon driven from under hIm-he SPRING.
ng up al the time, apparently with the inten.
ion OF expedIting his death. The rope slipped
md the wretcn's feet touched the ground One
'f the naskers then jumped upon his shoulders
swung him to and fro until life was extinct;
afrer which the whole party formed in line
and fred voiiey at his body. After swinging
for two hours his body was cut down, ana
coroLers jury. which had been summoned to
hold en- inquest upon IL, returned a verdict of
.5eath from hanging by unknown persons"
The corpse was buried on Hatron's hill, On the
public road leading from Broad creek to Pts.
,ataway, and the sight of the grave will, 1t is
thought, be a constant, and, ii 10 to be hoped. a
'ufhcient warning against the recurrence of q
similar incident 70 that OF which 1t is the finale
R1vER FRorr.-Hdrrey's Whdrf.-Arrived-
schooner J. b Austin, Davis, 32O tons coal for
Harvey, Clarke Il Given.
Cdrter's OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES L. and
u. Reed, Stellman, from Philadelphia, with
~ tons coal for @. II. Burgess & Co.: A. III.
Leming, Brewer, from Philadelphia, with 3O5
.ons coal for same. Sailed-Schooners Sarah
Jane, Love, light; Mohawk, Bradley, for Alex.
lndria, TO load coal for Norfolk; Tropic, Banks
Tor Salisbury, Nd. light: Mary Riley, Riley,
Tor Alexandra, 70 load coal for an eastern
port; East Newmarket, Jones, to Eastern Shore,
light.
Johnson's Whdrf.-Arrived-Scho Mon.
lana, Boyce, from Kennebec River, with isO
N ica fOP Isol Voo