Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-06-18
from the News aud Observer.
TAYLOR. THE NEGRO RAPE
FIEND, LYNCHED.

The Notorious r9.rn.a'. ! in t.,a
Tor, tine negro wlto last ~,cr - lru-
tally outraged Mrs Irvn. III. ca
derby lady I'll lseid>;,ilr, ~ Sn.,:ay
paid the penalty Of ii.> lofrhle
crime, beng ha..csi hna great PATTY
OF lynchers, who ,"oS Inn from .l@
Jail at Grcensbor" Saturday might.
About fifty or sixty persons left
Greensboro with Taylor, while q
dozen ladies waved their handkcr
chiefs from the windows as the pro-
cessipn passed by. \, / O'Clock
Sunday morning the party reached >
point seven miles from Reid>vlil-,
when they stopped and swung up
the prisoner TO an oak limb. lie
(Taylor) was stubborn and sullen to
the last, and he said little or nothing.
All day long the b dy swung
there, until, the rope relaxing some
what, the feet touched the ground,
The scene was visited by very large
and curious crowds of eScurslonists,
both white and colored. These
came from far and near, in every
imaginable kind of vehicle, and on
foot.
Late in the evening the o
made his appearance and had the
body cut down. a jury was em-
paneled and at ouce rendered a YER
dict that the deceased, John Taylor,
had been hanged by unknown par
ties. The body was not molested.
Taylor was hanged just as the law
hangs criminals. He was assisted
up to the limb OF the tree by being
mounted on tie back OF the same
gray horse which he had ridden
from Reidsville TO the home of the
LADY, to commit the rape.
Jupe Billiard, colorcd, was Sc
cured to inter the body, and placed
it in a grave right at the foot OF the
oak on which it had swung. The
county paid 81 for the interment.
The county people agree that the
lynching was right. I. G. +.
The Greensboro Battle Ground
says: Saturday night at 10 o'clock a
body OF men met at a rendezvous
about i've miles north Of Greens
boro, and entered the city about IL
o'clock and vert direct to the city
prison and demanded the person OF
John Taylor, the mulatto who, about
a week ago, outraged Mrs. Irwin, a
highly respectable lady of Reds
vile, in such a shocking and horrible
manner. Mr.. Wheeler refused the
keys, and as they had come pre-
pared, they produced slelges ane
chisels and cut their way into The
prison. They cut through thre.
doors, each door having three heav,
and tAassive locNs. Taylor wa
chained to the floor. At 1920 the,
succeeded in getting into the. eel
He was tied hand and foot, and a
11:30 they emerged from the jai
bringing him with them. He wa
placed in a buggy that was waitin;
at the gate. He was tied to tn
back Of the buggy, and the crow
moved off in the direction of Reid:
vile. AS they prepared to leav
the city the order was gwen by tn
leader to form twos and be pre-
pared for action in case they wer
fired into. They stated that the
/, would hang him to a telegraph pol
, in Reidsville, provided they coul
, arrive there before daylight, and i
, case they were delayed, he would b
hanged to the first tree after ;be
crossed the Guilford line. 1t was
determined set of men and the negr
seemed to know his I'm had com,
;. and said he wanted TO go to heave,
Some one III the crowd told hi,
: that he now had 4 chance to say h
, last words; be replied that be Ina
no statement to make. 1t is sal
that there were over two hundre
men in the body.
1t was evidently a pre- arrange
affair, and must have occupied niue
) of the time of the leaders who o
ganized the movement We ar
not prepared to say if any Green
boro men were in the party, but W
, think the general impression is tn:
:. they were all citizens of Rocking
ham county.
We regret the occurrence, an
think 1t best, in such cases, for til
law to take its course, bu, perhaE
these men will o be blamed muc
when the nature of the provocatio
is taken into consideration.
G 1t was reported in Hillsboro th:
the John Taylor that was hung VS.
Albert Atwater, of Chapel Hill, tt
States witness in the Chapel Hi
burglary ase We learn from