Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-09
THE BRUTE BEATTY,
Who Raped a Little SiX-Year-Old Child,
and who scaped, though Severely
Wounded, from a Lynching
Party,
is Taken to Nashville for Security-There
he Tells the story of his Escape
from what Seemed Ger
tain Heath.
Special to the Appeal

| Special to the Appeal
NASHVILLE, August 8.-Calvin Beatty,
colored, who was taken from the franklin
jail last night by a mob to lynch him for an
alleged outrage upon a slx-year old girl, was
brought here this evening and lodged In Jail
for safety against further violence. He is
badly wounded in the side by one hundred
No. , shot, and in the waist by a pistol ball.
HIS condition Is so critical that it is problem
atical whether he will live or die. He was
much exhausted when he reached here and
talked with great pain. He, however, gave the
following graphic story OF his miraculous es-
cape: When they rushed me outside of the
jail they put me on a horse behind man and
rode rapidly away. When they came to a
tree one said, "Here's a good place; let us
hang him here" But they all said, sit Is
too bushy here; let's go further" So they
rode on until the man vino had me said
Here, fellows, let's hang this ID mig
ger; don't want him to ride behind me all
night; l am getting id tired Of him. -
So they stopped at hickory tree, when
one of them climbed it and threw a rope
over the limb and placed the moose around
my neck; the man in the tree then fetched it
Jerk and it choked me mighty bad; the
moon was down and IT was very dark; be-
tween fifty and Sky were around me; got my
right hand out of the rope to which my left
was tied behind me, and slipped it easy-hke
up to the rope on my neck, and worked 1t, un-
bekuownst to them, until | got it around my
ears and eff my neck; then the man In the
tree says: "What you standing away of
dar for, you id fool; come close"
l., 10 I,,,,
get close to the tree, when the man in the
tree threw an end of the rope down, and
says: ''Ketch hold. dar. " They ketched the
rope, and | looked round to see where to
jump; so when the man rode off to let me
swing, | fetched a big lunge and lit right
among the horses; the man up the tree says
''Tbe d-n nIgger is gone; look out, dar."
afraid they would shoot one another;
and, at last, | saw an opening and
| darted through; one man says, here ne
goes and then they began to shoot, and
that blinded me; they shot in my face and
all around me; l never heard the like; while
they were shooting | ran against an old
stump and felix just as a heap of them shot;
at last one man shot me In the hand, and
just before I got to the fence another ran
shot me IN the side; he galloped
up close to me and fired, and |
fell; and he says, Use got him"
But that made me jump again, and then |
come to a rail fence, and | saw dar was a rock
fence by i, and jumped over that, and | got
mighty weak and didn t GO but few steps be-
fore fell in a clover patch; lay still and heard
them hunting and shooting all around, but
they didn't find me; | lay dar till ten o'clock
yesterday morning, and | got so bad off for
some water, walked aud crawled through
some beech woods, and got to black man s
house and told him not to tell where | was;
but he got scared, and SAID if l died there
the whitexfolks would get after him. He
was then surrendered to the officers and
brought here for safe keeping.