The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-05-16
a Horrible, Crime with gwtft
Retribution

III One Of hiose horrible efimta wtj
n serve 10 Illustrate bonnn depfagi
and lie d%ondisbness and brutality
I wbeb man Is capable occurred
Mobile on last Sunday. whin IN D.
. poftbnity was afforded NJ o 10 be Q
hibitcd tho better eide Of bams
nature, when shocked and appalled,.
bursts forth in oil its terrible mlyl
to assert lis supremacy and 10 Wind
cate those deep, tender, aud holy fec
ings which as Father or Husban,
God Almighty has implanted IN iii
human breast.
The inscription they bore, write
in letters OF blood upon q pure. white
spoiless ground, truly Indicated tn
mighty Impulse which impelled thosI
determined men to rise above Law ant
order, and to take into their owr
hands Vengeance swift, sure and ter,
rible.
"Arise Men Of Mobile, and Trotcct
Your Wives and Daughters"
From the Mobile papers we gather
the following account:
Sunday evening, about haf-past three
O'Clock, Frank williams, a young mau 81
or 80 years Of age OF good couLoc ions IN
the community, but of wild, cratic aud
criminal habits, endeavored to ehtics a
little girl ten years of age, whom he met
on Dauphin street, to go to his rom with
him, but failing, he induced, by the
promise of a nickle, a small child four
yearso OF age to accompany him.
Seeiag him so off with the child, the
girl OF ten ran and told the father OF tie
child that Williams had taken her a vav.
The father. Mr.. J. M. Richard GA. imme-
dlateiy armed himself with a stick, ard
OHV u SHoAoHh4 Iuub NlillamS was Known
occupy, which be found closed, the
ioor being Licked. He broke in the door
rushing into the room caught Will
ans in an act for which 10 punishment
10 wever terrible can be sufficient, Will
ANS fled and made his escape By climbing
yer a ten foot wall, and the father Clasp
d his bleeding and mutilated ohlld in his
rms. d whom. on the bed, lay the
ickle.
Oa learning of the deed, the excitement {
the citizens became so great that they
at the house Of Fire Companv
o. 3, where the father of the outraged
MD made a statement of the terrible t
lme that bad been perpetrated. The t
Tiers simple statement was an appeal to j
G passions OF the multitude to take the '
" into their own hands and execute il
thout delay, rather than to await the b
Nv process and b~ewildering uncertainty a
the courts. Some advocated hanging 4
brute to tho nearest lamp-post, while A
hers proposed to mu!ilate his person in v
a manner as to leave him a living b
'nument OF the enormity Of his crime. c
brief discussion, the populac, to s.
number of some two or three hun c.
ed. started for the guardhouse with the a
wed determination of Wrestling the n
soner from the custody of the police, d
executing summary vengeance upon al
dastardly offender. Arriving there, io
y found the 6oor protected by the o
sed iron gate, and Captain Charpentier u
chief of police, prepared to retain the y
tody of the great criminal. A demand "
) made for the body of the prisoner, to
lch Captain Charpentier. responded in al
that the police felt bound to III
cute the laws, and whatever was the al
'rmity of the crime that had been COM or
ted and however justly the indignation p'
people was excited, be would per- Oh
n his duty at all hazards. "a
t two O'Clock Monday morning, Will 'h
$, was sent out to the Jail, disguised 10 =,
uniform of q policeman. II
bout 10 A. NJ Monday a large and 10
ermined crowd made its appearance pc
n Royal street, carrying at its head a
70 and conspicuous placatd, bearing
inscription painted in large, red
ers: =
OF MOBILE ARISE n PROTECT YOUR
WIVES AND liz
arading through the streets, led by on
/ of known determination, until its to
ensions were swollen to some two or a.
. thousand of our best citizens, the
Vd hurried to the county Jail, arriving
e about half-past 10 o'clock. The an
r. refusing to open the gates, the Co
I'd, by means of several pieces Of exc it
thug, taken from a passing wagon, I.e
tied an entrance into the enclosure a
altering down a portion of the wall
Broad street, nea the coraer of Con- las
) street. Sheriff Dane was present his
did bis whole duty q chief executive prC
10 law.in this county, to dissuade the PAL
d from its purpose, and to protect liza
prisoner, bat the Sheriff, with his ora
Iful of Assistants, WAS utterly 20 yer -
to accomplish this. Am d cries OF
Mt hurt Dane, but take him of, " he wei
up bodily, placed in his bug
nd bis hotse whipped off. Determ- ]
to the last to do his duty, the plpcky bell
If drove around the square. returned clol