The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-09-01
Judge Lynch.

Judge Lynch.
Meantime however Judge Lynch did
not allow the work to pass without his
usual "picnics." Indeed, in the way OF
disposing Of criminals by having them
"pass In their chips" and cross the dark
river, Judge Lynch is altogether more at
tentive to business and prompt in its dis.
patch than the legalized executloner.-
Among the cases receiving his attention
the past week were the following:
At Ogden Utah, on the 2jth, Andrew
Burt, city marshal, and Chas Wilkin, at.
tempted to arrest negro, who resisted
and shot Burt dead and dangerously
wounded Wilkin. That evening mob
took the negro from jail, hung him, and
afterward dragged his corpse through the
streets.
The same evening thirty masked men
from Park City, Utah, took Jack Murphy
from the Jail at Coalville, a neighboring
town, and hanged him. Murphy was sus-
pectcd OF having shot a man named Bren-
nan at Park City Wednesday of last week
Near Colquitt, Miller county, Ga, on
Saturday night two negroes attacked a
lady IN her house in the absence Of her
husband, but the lady being provided with
a pistol frightened them away after one
had got INTO bed with her. She knew them
both and gave the alarm, and a crowd pur
sued them with bloodhounds and Sunday
one was caught and lodged in Jail. That
night lynching party went to the jail
and while forcing it open the negro got
hold of an iron bar and nearly killed one
of the lynchcrs. The crowd then riddled
the negro's body with bullets and left.
The other negro, if caught, will doubtless
share the same fate.
The papers mentioned a week ago the
lynchng, near cambridge, Ga, Of white
man named Fultord and negro tor the
brutal murder of Fuford's wife. 1t ap.
pears there was another negro, Reuben
Robertson by name, engaged in the same
crime, and on Friday night of last week
seventy-five disguised men entered the jail
where lie was locked up and shot him dead
IN his cell
At Terrell, Texas, on the 18th, at the ex-
animation Of Martin Bradley, colored, for
a brutal attempt to commit "A rape, his
guilt being conclusvely established, that
night a crowd of armed men took him
from the guards 10 the asylum grounds
east OF the city and hanged him. The
citizens deprecate mob law, but say this
was the second attempt at rape within a
few weeks.
On the Goth of July last Thomas Sayle,
young merchant OF Oakland, Miss, was
assassinated by negro named Joe Payne
and horribly mutilaed. The negro was
arrested, and on the 10Th inst. made Il full
confession. Thereupon public meeting
was held, attended by 800 citizens of Oak
land, who by unanimous vote decided
that Payne should be hanged. Sheriff.
Pearson made an earnest appeal in favor
Of the law taking its course, but the CRIME
was so revolving and the mans confession
of cold. blooded, deliberate murder So
clear and complete that the sheriff was
overpowered and relieved of his charge.
The negro's confession was to the effect
that on the night of the murder he went
to Sayle's house ter the purpose Of killing
him for his money, and that he waited
there until Sayles came out, when he joined
him. They walked about two hundred
yards, when he knocked him down and
cut his throat, throwing the body into a
deep gully, after he had riled the pockets
of money and the store and safe keys.
Then he went to the store and got what
money was there, amounting IN all toI
about $50. After hearing the confession
the black cap was adjusted, and in ten
minutes he was pronounced to be dead.
"The colored people were as clamorous as
the whites for avenglng the outrageous
crime, ana the people think they have
done right"