Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-06-23
THE EPILOGUE.
The Five Victims Of the EIkhart Lynch
ing Buried in One Grave Along
the Roadside,
The Scene on the Hill Of Dea,h--The
Woman's Full Confession The
Crime All Prearnpged,
The ungcdly Face Their Cod Human
Weights Applied-four Bodies
bangle From One Limb.

THE DARKEST PAeE IN THE HISTORY
OF CRIME.
special 10 the Gasst,e.
ELRHARr, TEX June 22,--Your
correspondent found the village OF
Elkhart very quiet this morning. II
is difficult TO get the particulars OF the
hanging OF the 1--WE negroes for the
murder OF Mrs, Ho1eli.
Az 8 o'clock Saturday night, on the
day after the iiendish crime, posse
carried Lizzie jackson otf to the
woods. She would divulge nothing
until rope was put around her neck
and she was hauled several feet from
the ground. She screamed aud
shrieked loudly and, when let down,
made
A FULL CONFESSION.
She said that on the night OF the muir.
der about 10 o'clock she went TO Ho.
sell's house after bucket OF water.
She found Mira. Hozell alone with
her two babies. She went back
and told Andy jackson, Frank
Hayes and Joe Norman. They at
once started and she tLisglel followed
behind them 10 get another bucket OF
water. She saw the three men bring
the victim out OF the house and
carry her around to the big
road. The victim then commenced
TO fuss and struggle, aud they then
hastened her along the middle OF the
road, Andy walking along la the
grass. She tL'zzIe) followed aud
SAW TEEN MURDER HER,
Frank Hayes cutting her throat. IL
was Il o'clock or after when the posse
got this confession out OF
Lizzie and abe was released.
The crowd then went after
Andy Jackson and carried him OH up
the hill toward the church. Early In
the evening when he WAS shown the
rope W It'll blood and hair ON u he
trembled likes leaf, and when they
put the rope around his neck he begged
and pleaded piteously for mercy,
They
PULLED HIN W AND LET HIN
down, but he would admit nothing.
He told several different stories, aud
finally said the murder was done by
two section hands, against whom,
however, there was no proof. He
said hia prayers for mercy, and
Andy was jerkod into etornity.
The crowd then returned and called
for Hayes, Rogers and Norman.
While they were tying Hayes aud
Norman, Rogers leaped through the
door and would have dashed away
like deer, but twenty hands were laid
upon him and he WAS marched up
the hill with the other two. While
on the way Norman and Rogers
screeched and yelled for mercy, but
the mob
TURNED a DEAF EAR
10 their piteous appeals. All the way
up the hill Hayes did not speak ex.
cept 10 curse his comrades for
their cowardioe. When they stopped
under large oak tree about forty steps
from where Andy dangled In the air
Rogers and Norman fell upon their
knees and begged abjectly for mercy.
Hayes turned sayagely upon them
need not slueal. We are all guilty
aud they are going 10 hang US, any.
how, There Ii no use Ia talking
/
he turned upon them with M oath
saying "If / was loose l would put
II all over you
Norman was then Ierked up
several feet and when let down con
fessed that all OF them were In the
murder. He said II
HAD BEEN SETTLED on
for three days and Nil that time he
had been watching HoZell's house
and reporting 70 the others.
When ne made this confession
Rogers and he were both swung up
and died together. They struggled,
uut man on top OF the limb would
place his feet upon their shoulders and
PRESS THIN DOWN.
When Hayes Was told 10 get ready, he
replied with an oath, "Pull the ropel
Pull that roper His last word
was n curfe. Lizzie had been released,
but foollshly returned 10 the spot,
where there was ikree crowd TO hunt
g snuli.bOx. That snuff box cost her
her life. Some one asked her II that
/ was not Andy JRckson's wife. She re.
piled yes. She was instantly seized
and, amid Wild screams and shouts,
HURRIED 10 THE hill.
fl WAS the last walk she ever took.
She begged abjectly for life, but got no
sympathy. She then confessed that
the flends outraged Mp. Hozell. She
also said that ons reason why abe was
killed WAS that Norman wanted
white woman, and had got
the balance 10 help him get
her out. Lizzie YVES then
swung up by the other three on the
same limb and the crowd dispersed.
Hayes was section hand. Rogers
worked for II. Davis aud Norman for
4. Davls. Six other negroes were
DISCHARGED
FOR WANT OF EVIDENCE
against them. Andy Jackson during
the war barely escaped hanging for
attempting 70 outrage white woman,
and few years ago hc WAS tried Ia
the court for the same of-
ense on colored girl. He