Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-12-04
LYNCHED.
Three Murderers Dome TO Death az Moss
Point by Crowd of White and
Black Lynchers.

II will be recollected, says the Pasca-
gOula Star of the twenty-first ultimO,
that Wien Mr.. J. c. Langley was so bru-
tally murdered at Moss Point, on the
night of the twenty-fourth of October,
the jury of inquest, composed of four
good, true and staunch white citizens
and two c0lOred men, found that the de-
ceased was murdered by the cOlOred
men, Charles Cannsdy, Levi Grandber-
~ and John Warner, or Vonner. The
former was Immediately arrested, but
the two latter escaped, and were pursued
and captured in Covington county, and
on last Monday arrived in charge of
their captors, and were lodged in jail
with Cannady. They asserted that Can
nady did the killing, acknowledging
that they were present end saw it. They
came down the country by Moss Point,
and soon was assembled in the morning
about the Jail large cOncourse Of our
citizens, white and cOlored, who evineed
a quiet determination not to await the
laws delay, but to sum marily execute
the three men. 1t was no gathering
of desperate, lawless men, but composed
Of all classes of our citizens, and but one
universal opinion seemed to prevail, and
that was that the men should be hung
instantes Thursday night a large
crowd OF citizens, white and cOlored, as
sembled at, and about the jail, and hav-
ng obtai ned the keys from the jailer's
house, which they searched, opened the
jail and cells and took out the three
men, whom they carried to large live
oak tree on the road, neSr the Railroad
exchange, and hung them, one at a
time, standing them on the head of
bacon hOgshead, and pushed it from I'M
der them. The hanging commenced at
seven O'Clock and was finished by eight
o'clock. VOnner, the first one hung,
who was least excited, addressed the
crowd, warning the colored people par
ticulaTly, against whisky and bad COM
pany and to stay at home at night, the
two former were the cause of his present
trouble. He also requested that his
hands be tied behind his back before be-
ing hung, and divided out, as they all
did, his clothes. CRANBERRY, the next
one hung, did not have much to say
at the gallOws, but requested letters
to be written to his friends. Cannady
was full of religious mysteries, and
asserted that ne was ON the direct
road to "Canaan's happy land" But the
men before being taken from the Jail all
confessed to having done the deed, and |
to having previously robbed that store !
and committing other depredatiOns. |
The confessions made by the prisoners
showed that Cannady entered the store
as If intending to purchase goods, and |
as Mr.. Langley turned around TO get
them from the shelf, Cannady struck |
him on the back of the head with a club
which he had concealed under his coat; |
knocking him down and jumping over
the counter, he with repeated blows |
killed him. CRANBERRY was on the
watch, and Warner was searching for |
money. 1t was no doubt thought that /
Langley would have been killed out |
right, or rendered incapable of giving an
alarm by the first blow, but this was not
the case, and his cries, as we stated in
our account at the time, were heard at
Borden's mill, just opposite, when Jones
Immediately started across. He was
seen, and the alarm given, when they |
fled without having time to rob or burn,
for they had brought lightwOOd with
them, and as they confessed intended |
after robbing the store to burn it and the
body. They also contested to having
robbed the same store on two previous
occasions, and Warner told that chest
taken from the store was then in the
rear Of his house.