Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-25

stoned the most intense excitement in
the minds of all who heard it, and
threats of lynching the criminals were
SO current in the neighborhood that the
Jail, for several days and nights, was
guarded by strong force Of armed men.
On Thursday this guard was removed,
and at night those they had protected
probably met an awful fate. At two
o'clock A. M, a body of disguised men
surrounded the jail, one of whom knock
! ed at the door, which, being opened, the
jailer had Colts pistol presented at bis
head, and a demand made for the keys
of the cell in which the prisoners were
confined. The demand could not, under
the circumstances, be resisted, and the
key was delivered. The jailer was then
locked up in his own room, and knows
nothing more of what TRANSFERRED. Nor
can any more facts be elected, except
that the cell in which the prisoners were
locked up Was empty on Saturday NOR
nlng. and that the mail boy from Luray
passed about daylight on Friday mors
ming, on the road to Front Royal q
number of strange looking men," " s.
The following is taken from the Alex
andria Gazette of Saturday evening:
Tho dead bodies of the two colored
men, Charles Brown and Jacob Berry,
man, full account of whose ontrags
upon young lady of Warren county,
and whose subsequent abduction from
the Jail in Front Royal has been pub
lished in the Gazette, we're found yes
terdsy suspended from one limb of q
cherry tree, about a mile from Front
Royal, on the road leading to Luray. 81
B,ANoTHER HORRIBLE OUTRAGE IN
..uu GEORGIA. se-sI s.3I
We find the following in the Macon
(Ga.) Messenger of Friday, August
Goth -M.1 w.. 4wiU bmma5ti] 9
We learn from gentleman who is
engaged il laying out the railroad track
on the New Brunswick read that on
Thursday last two respectable young
girls, residing near Station IA, upon the
Central road, were on their way home
from school, when they were overtaken
by two stout negroes, who Immediately
seized them, and in despite of their
screams for aid, committed diabolical
outrage. Having effected this brutal
deed of violence, one of the negroes, who
had but one arm, shook the mutilated
stump of the other in the face of the eld-
est OF the two girls and exclaimed: 4
wants my revenge, and I'm bound to
have it. When / belonged to your father
I ran away; be followed me to the woods
and shot me, and had to lose this arm,
do you see it? Now I'm bound to get
even with him and drawing his pocket
knife, he severed her arm entirely from
her body, between the wrist and elbow
joint. The two scoundrels then broke
away and ran for the woods. Very
fortunately the girls had the presence Of
mind enough to tie the mutilated arm
tightly above the elbow until medical |
aid could be procured, and it is barely
possible that the young sufferers life
may be spared. r~sa94 a.i1 "a
q Tbenews of this deed Of violence
ran like wild-6re all through the neigh
borhood, and in short time a mounted
patrol was organized, who volunteered to
go in pursuit of the scoundrels. They
soon found one of them, whom they
questioned right sharply, but somehow
or other the negro got lost somewhere in
the swamp,and the party returned home
without him. III
"The other, and by far the worst of
the two, succeeded in escaping. " o.
NEGRO LYNcHED AT PADUcAH, KY. 4
The Paducah (Ky.) Herald of We'd
nesday says: 4 'Fo9il''ta 8uH33- % 34,
Vengeance, speedily and terrible, has
overtaken the negro fend Badly, who
was lodged in our Jail on Sunday even
ing for crime too horrible to be repeat
ed again in our columns. About eleven
O'Clock and thirty-fve minutes last
night party of some seventy-fve or
eighty men from the country, disguised
in masks, went to the Jail, aroused Mr..
Davis, the under jailer, and demanded
that he should show them to the cell
where Badly was confined. Mr.. Davis
refused at first, but seeing how hopeless
resistance would be to such body of
men heavily armed, he yielded and con-
Quoted them to the cell. The negro
was taken out, a rope put round his
neck, and marched out Broadway. We
suppose his carcass this morning is or
namenting some tree in that neighbor-
hood. That the negro got his just de-
serts no candid man for moment will
question, but still we regret that the law
has been thus anticipated and mob vio-
lence resorted to.