The New York herald., 1870-01-17
FEARFUL SCENE ON THE ScAFFCLD.
The Condemned Gets His Feet ON tho Plat.
form aud is Pushed OF.
Terrible Struggles and Intense Ex-
Citement.

TARBoR0, N. O.. Jan. II, 1870.
death to the violator" is Dy popular opinion and
sentiment particularly In the SOUTH law, and fre-
quenty the ravlsher meets his merited doom In q
summary manner without the legal forinallty OF
trial BY judge and jury. The defamer OF female
chastity ls always held to strict account and some
times meets an untimely fate; but the ravisner or
ssducer invariably pay the penalty OF the crime
with their lives. II the former escapes the ven.
geance Of an indignant popusce he IS certain to
atone for the horrible act oy tho sure and steady
process OF the law, for in most OF the States the
statute books record the penalty DEATH THIS was
fully and s.rlkingy e1emplifed here TO day In toe
execution OF Lewis Hines, negro, for the violation
Of young and innocent white girl named Sarah l..
Johnson, In April last.
Since the emancipation Of the negro and hts moro
recent investment with oil the political rights and
immunities of an American citizen he has become,
under the influence OF unprnclpled adventures,
arrogant to an tntolerant extent, and IN some tn
stances fierce in MS demands for that myth--social
equality. Unable to obtain this poon through the
tnstrumentality OF their radical friends, many Of
them eye with feelings Of hate the wives and
daughters OF their former Masters whose purity and
virtue they would ruin If opportunity offered to
crafty their lustiul passions. Again and again the
public journals almost every portion or the South
have had to chronicle ouragcssDy negroes on unpro
tccted white females. and 50 cOmmon has this be-
come that no lady dares trust herself alone beyond
the limits OF Immediate succor for fear OF encounter
ing some evll-mnded negro, whose passions wouid
drive him to the commission OF crime. for their
qualification. And though in nearly every instance
the ravisher meets death es punishment for his
Infamous crime, sometimes swift, but always sure,
yet there IS no abatement: white women ore still
outraged by brutal negroes, ana the horrible mania
frequently the unfortunate victim OF ono OF these
nends in human shape Is cruelty murdered alter the
horrible act, and rarely without being knocked in-
sensible ana Lutilated IN fearful manner. or the
latter class Of victims OF this atrocous crime the
ono which was expiacd to-day on the scanold IN
the presence G about forty Witnesses who
prised the guard members Of the press, the jail ON.
cias, and few others who were privileged by the
Sheriff to come within the narrow confines o. tem
porary enclosure around the structure.
SCENE OF THE OUTRAGE.
Near the township OF what Is known as Swift
Greek, In the upper portion Of Edgec0mbe county,
lives Mr.. william johnson, poor but respectable
farmer, with his family, consisting of his wife,
daughter and q child that suffers rom some in-
trinity with which 1t was born. Mr. Johnson Is
about sixty years Of age and has been married
twice, his daughter Sarah. now about seventeen
while his second spouse Is the mother OF the child
ABOVE alluded to. On account Of age and lts conse
quent debility has lattery been the custom OF Mr..
Johnson to rent portion OF the land be possessed
to some industrious negroes in the neighporhood,.
reservin2 a share, which he cultivated himself
with the assistance or his wife and ddagL-
ter. These honest people toiled for a sub
sstence under circumstances that do them
infinite credit. Embarrassed as they were with the
sicssly infant the mother ana daughter dvided the
labors OF the field and ddtles Of tile household
between them, each taxing alternate days without
aud within. To-day the mother would work with
the husband Oh tue farm, While the daughter would
nurse the cnild cook ana attend to al other domes-
tic matters and the next day II was ctce ressa-tae
daughter working reaolutely with the noe by her
iathcr sside the mother remaining at home About
ZOO yards from tEelr residence lived Mr.. Patrick
Lane, q farmer, In whose employment was Lewis
lines, stalwart negro, ana genuine specimen Cf
the Congo species oil his race. LOWS was married
and Tie father O two children, ali OF tle,n residing
III tue house on Mr.. Lanes farln, about zoo yards
from thet genteman's residence. With his employer
and the people In the vicinity he bore rather
m Indifferent character but as he worked flrnfully
and gas considered q good farIn hand' II niattcrei
but little SO long rs he Conduc.ed himself respect
fully and with pr0priety as laborer From all the
informs alton tnat can now be geaned Lewis had no
relations whatever with the JOnnsOns, not even that
or n. passing acqsaintance, SO usual among people
uylpg ln the county; b1t ~ no psd 0aea on M.