The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-06-25
THE lELKHART LYNCHING.
MERITeo DEATH OF THE FleNos
How tho Evidence of Their Guilt Wac
Established - Lizzie Jackson's
Horrible Confossion-Awful
Profanity of Hayes.

HERALD correspondent iounu the vlls
age OF Elknsrt very quiet this morn
ny. It's difficult to get particulars OF
the hanging OF the i've negroes for the
murder OF Mrs. Hazelle. Alto o'clock
Saturday night, the day after the
fiendish crime, posse carried Lizzie
jackson oil TO the woods She would
diyulge nothing until q rope was put
around her neck and she was hauled
several feet from tho ground. She
screamed and shrieked loudly and
when let down made full confession.
She said that on GAs night of the muir
der, about. 10 o'clock, she went TO Hs-
zelle's after bucket Of water. She
found Mrs. HaZelle alone with her two
bapies and went back and
told Andy Jackson, Frank Hayes
and Joe Norman. They started after
her and she (Lizzie) followed behind
tb EN- TO get another bucket OF water.
She saw the three bring their victim
out OF the house and carry her around
to the big road. The victim then COM
then hastened her along the
middle OF the big ROAD,
Andy walking along in the grass. She
(LiZziel followed and SAW them murder
Mrs. Hazeile, Frank Hayes cutting
her throat. IL was IL o'clock or after
when they got Their confession out of
Lizzie, and she was released. The
crowd then went after
Andy Jackson and carried
him of she hill toward the church.
Early in tht evening when he was
shown the rope wlth blood and hair on
il
HE TREMBLED LIKE A LBAEP
and when they put the rope around
his neck he begged aud pleaded pitt
ously for mercy. They pulled
him up and let him down,
but he would admit nothing.
He told several different stories and
finally said the murder was done by
two section hands, against whom,
however, there was no proof. He
said his prayers for mercy and was
jsrked into eternity. The crowd then
returned ands called for Hayes. Rog-
we're tieing Hayes and Norman,
Rogers leaped through the door and
would have dashed away like deer,
but 20 hands were laid ON 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 deaf car
to their piteous appeals. All the way
up tho hill Hayes did not speak, ex-
c9pt wnen ne
CURSED HIS COMRADES FOR THEIR
CowARDICE.
When they stopped under a large
oak tree, about ~ steps from where
Andy dangled in the air, Rogers and
Norman fell upon their knees anu
begged abjectly tor mercy. Hayes
turned ssvagely upon them and said:
"G-d d-n yoll You need not
squeal! We are all guilty and they
are going TO hang us anyhowl
there is no use in talkingW
Some one struck Hayes here and he
turned upon the man with an oath.
cd d--n you! If was loose L
would put 1t all over youW
NorIisn was then jerked up sewers al
feet and
WHEN LET DOWN HE CONFESSED
Sfdea that al q qas 'nsm ssid II E0fe had IN bet e
settled on for three days and
ali that time hs had been watching
Hazelle's house and reporting to tie
others. When ne made this confession
Rogers and he were both swung up
and died together. They struggled
hard but man on top of the limb
would place his feet upon. their should
ers and press them down. When
ready, he replied SD
d-n youl Pull the rope! Pail that
ropeW
His last word was q curse.
Lizzie had been released, but fool
ishly returned to the spot, where there
WAS large crowd, to
HUNT "A SNUFF BOX.
That snuff box cost her her life. Some
one asked her if she was not Andy
Jackson's wife; she replied "yes." She
was instantly seized and amid wild
screams and shouts hurried to
the hill. 1t was the last walk
she ever took. She begged most
abjeetly for life but got no sympathy.
She then confessed that the ffends out
ragged Mrs. Hazells. She said that .one
was that Norman wanted
q white woman and had
got the balance to help him get her
out. Lizzie Twas then swung up by
the other three on the same limb and
the crowd dispersed. Hayes was q
section hand. Rogers worked for e.
Davis, aud Norman for T. Davis. Six
other negroes, were discharged for
want OF evideace againss them. Andy
Jackson, during the war, barely es-
capped hanging for attempting to out
rage q white woman, and
few years ago was tried
in, tho court for tho same offense.
on colored girl. He has borne bad
reputation tor years.
HOW THEY WE'RE BURIED.
The five negroes were put in boxes
and buried in one grave near the pub
lie road. half mile from Elkhart. On
| the box was IN ark I'd:
"Audy Jackson,
Chief of the TribeW
This ia tho outcome of the foulest and
most diabolical crime ever perpetrated
| in this State. A thousand fiends
strung up would not compensate for
the life of poor Mrs. ,Haaells. She
was good ani beautiful and Ia the
flush of womsnhood. A fair,
pure wife, the mother Of two lit
| tie babes, murdered by the
very fiends to whom their innocent
young mother had more than once
done acts of charity and kindness.
The towards who dragged her from
her childrens' arms to dishonor
and death were not harmed until
the last link of evidence
against them was full and complete.
Tue only grave by the roadside is q
W arning that oolored people would do
we'll 10 heed.
Manslaughter.
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