Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-01

A Negro Murderer and Ravisher
Burned &c the stake By an AFknn.
Bas Mob.

a NekrO anu A0Fi6ner
Burned &c the stake By an AFknn.
a Mob.
The Hamburg (Ark.) Monitor of July
l4th contained the following article:
On Friday nigkt, 18th inst, about
midnight a posse Of between sixty and
seventy-ive men quietly entered our
town, went TO the blacksmith shop,
broke it open, procured tools, and pro.
ceeding TO the jail broke open the door.
They went to the cell in which George
Jackson, the negro ravisher and MUIR
derer Of the little girl Corinna Haynes,
was confined, and breaking open the
door Of the cell, they took George out
and departed. They carried him south
Of town about four miles, near the Ber-
lin road, where they chained him to a
green sappling and there burned him.
The whole affair was conducted SO
quietly, except the noise made in break.
Jag open the shop, that very few persons
we're aware Of their presence until they
were leaving town. AS they we're going
off they set up q loud yelling, which was
done to prevent the voice Of the negro
from being heard. Some OF our citizens
saw them riding through the streets.
and learning they had the negro, followed
them till they came to the place Of exc
cution. When they arrived there, how
ever, the negro was burned to death and
the meh all gone. at Mr.. Brazzeale's
the k%idnappers halted and ave George
some water and asked J.. G. Brazzeale to
20 with them and hear what George had
TO say. This he declined doing. We are
told by Mr.. Brazzeale and others that
Georges cries were vociferous, and were
heard by the neighbors as far as two
miles off. While at the Jail, these men
informed Mrs. Holmes, who lives in the
Jail, and who was no doubt vely much
excited, that she need not be alarmed. as
their business wa to protect females. As
to who they were, or whence they came,
all is wrapped in mystery. They were
seen in the evening south Of here, and
with some the citizens conversed, and
Notwithstanding they we're u~ndisguised.
yet none OF them were recognized. Some
said they we're from Monroe, some from
Bastrop and some from Vicksburg.
These statements as 10 their localities,
however, amount TO nothing. Some pei
sons visited the scene on Sunday and
found only a small portion Of the body
say about fifteen pounds.
The Monitor, of the 2lst of July, con.
tains a letter signed Capt. Bulldozer,"
which gives a fall account Of the burn
ing. he states that when the negro
realized that there a no hope, he con.
fessed to the killing of the little girl, but
stoutly averred that only his companion,
named Sam, committed the other crime
The Helena ARK Tribune, Of July
18th, a Republican paper, says:
The demon who was lynched had com.
mitted the most brutal of all crimes,
rape, and then, to conceal his sin, added
to it The blood-guiltiness of murder. For
our part, we shall save our sympathy for
more deserving objects, and we shall moi
feel that the majesty Of the law has re
ceived any very great indignity whenever
a confessed ravisher and murderer, be
be white or black, is either hanged or
burned, no matter BY what agency. Il
George Jackson had possessed a hun
dred lives, burning a hundred times
would not more than have attoned fol
his damning offense.