Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-08-17
OUT OF THE JAWS OF. DEATH.
Rentty'a Thrilling story Of His EschPt
from Judge Lynch

Rentty'a Thrilling story Of sis Escape
from Judge Lynch
Calvin Beatty, whom a mob tried to
hang in Williamson county, for alleged
outrage on a young girl, thus related the
circumstances of his escape. 1t Is print
ed in the Nashville American OF the 9th:
what did they do with you when
they got out of Jail, Calvin p
Zone OBJ de men took me up behind
him on his boss, and da went fast, some
times pacin' and %trottin' and gallopin',
One OBJ EN- says, 'Cass, did you rape dat
chileT NO sir, | didn't says |. I seed
her about dar, but | never touched her.
Dend a all say You are a dam liar Al
ter a while one OBJ 'em says: I'm gwine
to take you to your daddy and let him
glib you a coed whippin,' Den da all
laughed and an Odder one says: what
you fool dat niger forH you know ives
gwine to hang him. Den da came to a
tree, and one says here's a good
place; less hang him here, and da all rode
up t. it and da say, no dis is too bushy,
less 90 iurder. So da rode on and the
man who had me says see here, fellows,
less hang dis dam Niger; | don't want
him to ride behind me all night am
getting dam tired oh him. SO ds stop
ped at a hickry tree, and n OBJ them
clum up in it, and da thowd him one
end OBJ a rope and da made a slip-knot
on fodder end and put it ODER my neck.
And de man in de tree fetchit a Jerk aud
it choked me mighty bad"
Were your arms loose p
"No, sir; da tied an behind me when
da stopped. De moon was down and it
WAS dark. Dere was fifty or sixty OBJ 'cm
around me. | got my right hand outen
the rope and slipped it, easy like, up
to the rope on my neck, and worked 1t
uubeknownst to 'em till | got it round
my ears an often my neck. Den
de man in de tree says, What
you standing way off dar for, you
dam fool? Come close and de man
kicked his boss and made him git close
to de tree, and de mar in de tree thOw-
ed de end OBJ de rope down, and says,
'Ketch hole, dar.' Da ketched de rope
and | looked round to see whar to jump;
so when de man rode off to let me swing
| fetched a big lunge and lit right among
de HOSES. De man up de tree says de
dam niger is gone-look out dar. |
got down among de hssses, and da war
'iraid da would shoot one anuder, and at
last | seed a opening, and | darted
through. One man says here he goes,
and den Ga gan to shoot, and da blinded
me. | nebber heard de like, While da
was shootin | run agin a old stump, and
tell Just as a heap OBJ 'em shot, At last
one man hit me indie hand, and Just afore
| got to a fence auodder man shot me
in the side, He galloped up close to me
and fired. | fell and he says, "I'se got
him., but dat made me jump sgin, and
den | cum to a rail fence and | jumped
ober it, and den dar was a rock fence
right by it and | jumped ODER dat and |
got mighty weak and didn't 60 but lew
steps before | fell in a clover patch. |
lay still and hearn 'em huntin' and
shOotin' all round, but dey didn't find
me. lay dar till 10 or IL O'Clock de
next day, and | got so bad off for SEINE
water | walked and crawled through
some beech woods aud got to a black
mans house. | tole him not to tell whar
| was, but he got feared and said if
died dar de white folks would git arter
him"