The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-11-20
JUDGE LYNCH IN DeSoTo COUNTY.
4 KGjgaieOHs Verdict Promptly
Executed.

Memphis Appeal
\ few days ago we Published a para
graph stating that two negroes, man
aud woman, bad been hanged near
fernando, Mississippi, by mob Dill
gent inquiry on our part failed, until last
night, to find any one who had seen the
hanging. a gentleman who had been
refugeeing al fernando gives Us the fol
lowing account Of the affair: The negro
man and his wife had in their custody
little white child. about FIVE years old,
which had been placed in their hands,
| it is believed, by its mother, in order
| that they might get rid Of the child, and
| the inhuman mother thus become sole
| heir 10 some property The coIored Peo-
| pie built a pen in their yard and placed
| the child in it to starve. Instead of dY-
| ing few days a. they intended II should,
| The little one escaped from It's prison, and,
| too weak to walk, crAwled about the yard
and actually devoured the excresence
| eft about the plaee by the brutal negroes.
| As the poor child seemed disinc.ined TO
| die a natural death, the fiends then killed
| il. The horrible affair became known,
| the remsins of the child were dug up,
| and its murderers were arrested and
placed 10 jail When the yellow fever
/ appeared in fernando, the prisoners in
the Jail were taken TO the country and
put to work in cotton fields, being car
ried from one farm to another as the
crop of each was picked over Some OF
| the people having determined that the
murderers Of the child should not escape,
| a number OF men variously estimated at
from twenty five to forty, went at night
| 10 a farm where the prisoners had been
at work. They were lodged in the loft
Of a gin, and the guards, having heard
Of the approach of the lynchers cut
down the steps, and stood at the door;
and threatened to shoot any of the party
who attempted to gain access TO the loft
No facilities being offered for qule
and peaceful hanging at this establish
ment, the avengers Of the murdered
child took their departure, to await {
more favorable occasion. A few night
| 4fterward the prisoners were lodged il
cabins on a farm near whore the toTme
| demand was made for the victims. Int
. | these cabins the moo rushed, and secured
| the two persons whom they had deter
| mined should die for committing one o
,he most horrible crimes on record
+ | They were taken to the roadside aDC
| swung to the limbs Of trees, and lef
! | dangling there Is warning to evil doors
, Our informant states that the man Wa
! a large mulatto, weighing over two hun
] Ired pounds. He had not been draw
. nigh enough, and his feet touched tn
ground. The inventive genius OF one o
: | thc iynchcrs came to the rescue IN TIN
f embarrassing dilemma, and he tore OF
a portion of the victims shirt and TIED
. bis feet together, drew them up and at
tached the end of the string to the ont
which secured the hands behind the-body
/ This bungling arrangement evidently
+ caused the man to linger long time, il
awful misery, after he was suspended
The woman'5 feet were a considerable
distance from the ground and her neck
was broken"
1t is rather remarkable that this affair
has not become more generally known
and that the verdicts of the coroner's
uries in the Gaze of the child, as well as
the bangmen'5 victims, have not been
| published. This may have been on &C
count IF the excitement which was
caused by the prevalence of the fever.