Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-01
TERRIBLE DEATHS.
Two Negroes Taken from the
Lebanon Jail.
They are Hung s.n Dead!
Great Excitement,

We are again called upon to record
another deed of summary punishment IN
flicted in O neighboring town. Deplor-
able as such occurrences may be and I'M
pleasant as is their recital, as pubic
journalists it becomes our duty to furnish
the facts as they come to u.s. We had hoped
that after the saturnalia of blood at Hunt
ingdon growing out of the fendlsh atrocl-
ties that produced them, we would not
hear of a repetition, or even causes hkeiy
to produce a repetition of such horrible
scenes The facts in the case now under
consideration are, in so far as we have been
able to gether them, about these: OerUaln
portions of Wilson county have been long
infected with a pestifercus set OF outlaws
who have been stealing, pillaging and COM
| hitting all sorts of helnous outrages.
| Among them are number OF desperate
| negroes, who, too indolent and tritlng to
| work hard, resorted to stealing and
| pillaging as means OF subsistence. IN
some sections, in fact, a. has been the case
| in other sections Of the State, these high
handed acts became 80 frequent, and were
perpetrated with 30 much audaclty, as to
become insupportable. short time since
two negro men, named respectively Jerry
Young and Bob White, known to have
been desperate and bad characters, who
had been carrying on successfully then
stealings for some time without being de-
tected, stole some horses and lot OF cot
ton from parties living not great way
from Lebanon. The two parties were ar
rested, and on preliminary examination
we're put in the Lebanon jail to await fur
ther trial There being no particular eI
ASPIRATION manifested against them at the
time of their incarceration, no extraordlna
nv precautions (the jail being secure one
were deemed necessary either to proven
the escape of the negroes or to protec
| them from unsupported violence. Between
the hours of 10 and II o'clock on Friday
night. and nearer the latter hour, part.
f of men, numbering near thirty, surrounde'
r the jail and called out the iallor
) | They then demanded of the jailo
> | admittance to the jail and the keys. No
5 | having the power to resist, the demand
. | were complied with. On getting the key
2 the party told the jailor to go back int
7 | his house and behave himself. They wer
: uudiscuised and made known their inten
4 | tons at the time. The jailor having n,
: discretion, complied with their demands
: They then forced into the jail and too
4 the two negro men referred 10 from tneI
, cells. They then conveyed them to Plac
1 | known as Ashworth's Glade, point abou
amile and half this side of the town
where they hung them to limb and LEI
= them. Saturday morning the two me
were discovered still hanging, their faces
the road, and both stiff cold and deat
o They were cut down and placed by th
roadside, their feet to the road. Th
n | news of their discovery soon spread, an
= much excitement was created in Leblanc
0 and vicinity, hundreds of persons visitin
!. the place. They were buried on Sunday
: The perpetrators, though they were NJ
q disguised, are entirely unknown, and a
t | complished their work without noise {
e disturbance, and departed, leaving L
e trace as to who they were or whence the
! came. The affair has created much feelin
!. in the vicinity, and is, we learn, deeply d
4 | plored by the good citizens of Lebanon.