Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-16
An Escape From Lynchers.
A NEGRO MAN HUNG UP BY A MOB. LOOs-
EMS THE ROPE AND GETS OFF

A NEGRO A HUNG UP BY A MOB. LOOs
EMS THE RoPE AND GETS OFF.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, August S.-Cavin
Beatty, colored, who was taken from the
Franklin jail last night by a mob TO lynch
him for alleged outrage upon the person of
a six year old girl, was brought here this
evening and lodged in Jail for safety
against further violence. He is badly
wounded in the body by one hundred No.
3 shot, and in the wrist by a pistol ball.
His condition is such that it is problemati-
cal whether he will live or die. He was
much exhausted when he reached here, and
talked with great pain, lie, however, gave
the following graphic story OF his miracu-
lOuS escape:
When they rushed me outside the Jail
they put me up behind a man n ode
rapidly away When we came to a tree
one said, Here's d good place; let's hang
him here" but the other Said, 1T is too
bushy here, let s go further on" So they
rode on until the man who lad me said:
Here, fellows. let's hang this damn mig
ger; | don't want him to ride behind me
all night;3 I'm getting tired of him.
So they stopped at d hickory tree, one OF
them climbed it, threw a rope over a limb
and placed the moose around Try neck. The
man in the tree theH fetched it a jerk and
choked mighty bad. The moon was down
and twas very dark. Between fifty and
sixty men were around me. l got my right
hand out Of the rope to which my left was
tied behind me and slipped it eaSylike up
to the rope on my neck and worked it IN
beknown to them until | got it around my
ears and off my neck. Then the man in
the tree says: what you standing away
off dar for, you d-n fool? Come close ~
and the man kicked his horse and made
him get close to the tree. and the man in
the tree threw the enc of the rope down
and says, "Ketch hold dar." They ketched
the rope and l looked around To see where
to jump. So when the INA rode off 10 let
me swing, l fetched a big lunge and lit
right among the horses. The man up the
tree says
THE d--nigger is gone, look out dar.''
l got down among the horses, and they
were afraid they would shoot one another.
and at last | saw an opening and darted
through. One mai says, '.Here he goes
and then they began to shoot. and that
blinded me. They shot in my face and all
around me; never heard the like. While
they were shooting l ran against an old
stump and fell, just a heap Of them shot.
At last one man shot me in the hand, and
just before | got to the fence another man
Shot me in the side. He galloped up close
to me and fired. / fell. and he says, "I'se
got him;'' but that made me jump again,
and then l come to a rail fence and [ saw
dar was a rock fence by it, and l jumped
over that, and 1 got mighty weak and
didn't go but a few steps before L. fell in
the clover patch. lay still and heard them
hunting and shooting all around, but they
didn't find me. l lay dar until 10 O'Clock
yesterday morning, and | got so bad OF fol
some water I walked and crawled through
some beech woods ard got to a black mans
house; told him not to tell where [ was,
but he got scared and said if I died there
the white folks would get after him.