The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1883-06-16
LYNCH LAWS VICTIMS.
A BRUTAL CRIME JUSTLY
AVENGED.
A NEGRO LYNoHED IN ALABAMA.
People Hang a Man for a Das-
tardly Outrage on q Little Girl-The
First Lynching In Twenty Years.


SHEBoYeAN, MICH, june 15.-LittIe
Nettie Lyons, daughter of Norman Lyons,
Of this place, was playing near the railroad
depot Tuesday afternoon with half dozen
companions. She strayed away from them
about dark, going little way down the rail
road track after some wild flowers. Her
playmates waited for her return, but sup
posing she had gone home all went to their
suppers. When she did not come back her
mother went to the neighbors' houses to
look for her, and as none of them knew
where she was she returned and alarmed
her husband, who, with half dozen
friends, began searching the woods in
the direction in which she had gone.
Itwas not until daylight on Wednesday
morning that she was found, and then she
was lying, too weak to cry, on little raised
spot in the centre of a swampy piece of
ground-her clothing torn and and an ugly
cash in her left side. She was taken home,
made as comfortable as possible, and then,
in her eight-year old way, told what she
knew of the terrible injury she had received:
"a man came up the track" she said,
"and grabbed me. He took me over the
fence here, and hit me with a stick because
cried He hit me twice, and then went
to Sleep" This was all she could say, ex-
cept to give description of the man who
had committed the outrage.
IDENTIFIED BY HIS VICTIM.
A vigilance committee was at once or
ganized, and hundred men set out to scour
the woods. Yesterday morning a man an
swering to the general description given by
the girl was arrested. He had come back
to the town where he had berD staying for
several days, and was noticed to avoid OBJ
servation as much as possible. He was
recognized as having come up the railroad
track about dark, and when he was CON
fronted by the little girl she at once cried
out: "Oh, take him away, don't let him
hurt ne any more; he hit me-" There was
a rush to take him away from the officers,
but they resisted, jumped into wagon and
drove back to the jail. The man at first re-
fused to give his name, but finally said it
was Toll Warner, that he came from Al
pena, Michigan, and that be came to She
boygan on a schooner, his business being
sailing. He was examined in the afternoon
and was again positively identified. He
gave an account of his whereabouts during
Tuesday evening, which was promptly dis
covered to be lie.
There was more talk of lynching him, but
he was not molested up to dark, though
nearly every man in town was on the streets.
Large crowds gathered about O'Clock in
the evening, and all wended their way
toward the jail Here the crowd eventually
swelled to about 500, most of whom were
there principally from curiosity. About l
o'clock this morning a few men, with
masked and blaeked faces, wearing sheets
and disguises, walked up the steps of the
jail amid the applause of the throne. The
sheriff opened the door of his residence,
which is connected with the Jail, when he
utaa afu hxy yaa :,
manded the key of the lookup.
LYNoHING THE PRISONER.
obtaining this, they unlocked the Jail and
opened the door of the cell where Warner
was confined. He was taken out and dragged
to the railroad crossing, followed by the
crowd. AS he was being taken to the cross
ing rope was placed about his neck. On
arriving there the rope was thrown over the
crossing sign and he was pulled up, but let
down again anc given chance to talk.
He said the only harm he ever did was to
himself, In spending all his money for
liquor. and protested that he was not the
man who had committed the crime of which
he was accused. He was hoisted and low
cred several times, still pleading his inno-
cence, but was finally hauled up and left
hanging until daylight this morning, when
he was taken down.
The little girl is resting quietly to-day
and it is hoped she may recover, though Nh
is still very weak and has lost great deal
Of blood from the stab she received III tie
slde. 1t was evidently intended 10 liii hcf,
but the steel rib OF herrhiid ; corset ca;tr .r,i
the course Of the kuile and caused il q, ~
fict only Slight wound. She Is q very
pretty child and every one in the place
knows her and respects her parents
The dead mans fIli natur Is Frederick
'I,,1. TlF- III. -
old. In 1878 he was convicted of robhug "a
man iii Detroit, and was seut up for . years.
When he came out OF prison he con
tinued The business of sailirg on t,ic iakes
His parents are respectable people Of Al
pens, and he has relative Of nigh siandiBg
in Detroit. Even the men who were loud
est yesterday in condemning him and de-
manding his death are saying to-day that 1t
would be horrible if he was innocent, but
they reassure themselves by the positive
testimony of the girl and tie fact that he
could not account for his whereabouts
There his been no lynching in this Stale
before for 30 years. The verdict of the
Coroner's jury is that Warner came to his
death by hanging by parties unknown.
NEGRO MURDERER LYNCHED.
SELMA, ALA, June ia special from
Wetumpka says the negro, Jordan Corbin,
who murdered Benjamin Garden and seri-
ously wounded his wife and son for the pur-
pose OF outraging Gardens daughter, near
Rockford, Coosa county, Monday night, was
captured by citizens and put IN Jail Wednes-
day. That night he was taken from Jail by
a crowd of 500 persons aud hanged. The
crime was the most deliberate and horrible
that can be conceived. Corbin remained for
an hour about the house, which was barri-
caded by the wounded wife with a bed on
xpb Low hns nd xHl, haA
shot in the head while asleep by gun
pushed through a window. The daughter
escaped to the woods. She was found
almost dead from fright, and is not ex-
pected to live. The mother and son will re-
cover.
-s--Na~-s-
Arrested for Mail Robbery,