Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-21
THE VIRGINIA LxNCHsNG,.

Tho Quiet Mob that Hangsd . Negro for
Running Away With . White Girl.
| The following despatch from Warrenton,
| va, gives the details of the lynching of
the negro, Arthur Jordan
This usually quiet little town was the
scene last night Of the lynching of negro
under extraordinary circumstances, On the
9th Of December last, Arthur Jordan, q
cOpper-cOlOred negro of about forty wears
OF age, who had been employed as farm
hand on the plantation of Nathan Cor.
der, a welltO-dO farmer living ON the
RappahannOck river, in the upper end
of the county, eloped with Elvira Cor
der, twenty-fOur years old, daughter ofthe
man who had employed him. The negro
took the cars at Markham station, and was
met by the woman on the train at Salem,
fifteen miles further down. The injured
father of the girl followed the guilty pair
to Washington, and after fruitless search
throught that city and Alexandria, re-
turned brOken-hearted to his home. On
last letter was received by the
postmaster at Markham from a gentleman
living near Williamsport, Nd, saying that
there was negro with his white wife liv-
ing near him, claiming to be from Mark
nam, and acting in such . man.
ner rs to excite his suspicious that
all was not right. From the description
given the couple were readily recognized
Is Corder's daughter and Arthur Jordan,
md party of six Of the best men in the
armed and started immedi-
'tely to WilliamspOrt to capture the latter
md bring him back to this county. They
we're successful in finding him about eight
niles above Williamsport, and arrived with
linn at Markham ON Thursday night last
IN Friday Justice Lake gave the prisoner
preliminary hearing and, committing him
Or the action of the grand jury, gave him
charge of constable and two deputies
0 carry him to Jail at Warrenton, some 20
niles distant, where he arrived the same
light and was locked up.
On Sunday night a band of sixty deter
lined men rode up to the door of the Jail,
nd calling out the jailOr, presented man
hey brought with them tied to be taken
l charge. When the jailOr came up to
eceive his prisoner, a half-dozen pistols
ere presented to his head, and the keys
He surrendered the keys after
'me remOnstrance, and detail from the
|furiated crowd outside went in, and,
lacing a rope around Arthur JOrdan's
eek, dragged him forth and hanged him to
tree some 300 yards from the door of tho
III. The crowd then departed, from town
nOiselessly as they had come leaving the
[eless body of the negro dangling from
le tree. His body was cut down at about
o'clock next morning by order of the
lthorities and turned over to the coroner.
ne remarkable part of this lynching was
e entire absence of excitement, the mob
'Oceeding as if in the execution of a SOL
nm duty in thus avengins tbs violation OF
le of the most sacred unwritten laws .f
ciety. Arthur Jordan was hard-work-
6 but rather impudent negro, and leaves
colored wife and a large family of chill
en- living near Nathan COrder's house.
lere is evidence that he used even the
rmality Of marriage ceremony to ac-
mplish the ruin of his victim, who knew
ry we'll that he was already married, and
NOR says had been criminally intimate
tn him for some months before the elope-
mt.