Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-07-30
JUDGE LYNCH.
A Fiend Attempts TO Garry ont =
HeIIish Design, In Fooled and
Afterwards Pays the PEN
atty WITH his
Life.

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weeks ago, one Of the most diaboli-
cal plans was sought to be carried
out that has ever been attempted in
Lincoln parish in many day. Mr..
A. J. Taylor resides in tho Southern
part Of this parish, about seven miles
from Vienna. He has had living
with him this year negro man by
the name Of Silas Lee who was an Or
binary farm hand on the place. Sew
eral weeks ago Mr.. Taylor went to
Texas in order to improve his health,
leaving with his family two young
men to look after his business and
protect his family. On the night
above mentioned, some time about
the middle or latter part, Mrs. Taylor
was aroused from her slumbers by
noise in her room, which she occupied
with two or three of her children,
among whom was her Oldest daughter
q girl twelve or fifteen years Of age,
she arose and lit her lamp for the pur-
pose Of ascertaining the cause Of the
noise which appeared to be at the bed
other daughter and upon approaching
the bed she saw and recognized this
negro man Silas Lee lying under her
daughters bed In a perfectly nude state.
Mrs. Taylor screamed several times
but, seems without arousing the
young men WOO were occupying a
room remote from hers, Realizing that
he was discovered and becoming
alarmed the negro crawled from under
the bed and ran off. ftappears that
Mrs. Taylor did not acquaint the
young men and the balance of the fam
lily with the fact until next morning.
No effort was made to arrest him
by the young men on the place the
next day, for fear he would get away,
although he appeared Oh the place
several times during the day and
showing by his actions and looks that
he was in constant fear of something.
On that night Thursday night there
was negro wedding in the neigh
borhood. Silas Lee not being on
, hand was sent for by some one in the
woods near by to come out and help
doctor a sick horse he went and was
there met by crowd and marched
off to an old field, tied and literally
filed with buckshOt ard left as dead,
supposedly, as he would ever be.
But he was not dead yet. After the
crowd lett him he managed to unite
himself and crawl to % negro shanty,
not far off, and there remained until
Saturday evening, when DR.. Null
WAS sent for. By this time his case
was hopeless on account of the sever
ity of his wounds and the time that
had elapsed since he was shot that
he was without medical aid, one of
his arms being literally shattered and
his body filled with shot. Saturday
night he was again taken out and this
time he was dispatched in short Or
der.
He was found the next day about
b five hundred yards from Mr.. A. II.
Riter's, in piece Of woods, at which
place Coroner G. II. Griffin held an in
y quest over his body. Thus did he pay
the penalty his act SO richly deserved
While we do notapproye of)ynch Law
as generally applicable to all fragrant
! violations of criminal law, yet we dc
approve Of it when applied to cases
like the present. The chances of es
cape are two greatto allow such afen(
! the benefit of a trial by jury and thu
, sooner such characters are Taught thu
necessary consequences Of such act'
the better it will be for them anC
the community at large. This villair
has been guilty Of several attempts
before, he was shot in Ouachita parish
I several years ago and fed from Jack
son to Lincoln for fear of punishment
=, for a similar Offense to his list attemp
ted, while in Jackson. His end came
: none too early nor too tragic, con
u sidering the Nervousness of The crime
he was attempting to perpetrate
It A correspondent Of the Richlan'
8 Beacon pays the following compll