Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-12-09
HANGED.
Shed Fielder, Alfred Jones and
Eph Jones taken from Jail.
They are found dead hanging to
necan tree.

Mr.. Jim Estes, the jailer, wa
awakened by a man at the jai
door, who in response to an in
quiry, said that he was Schley
and that he had a prisoner to pu
in Jail. This seemed reasonable
and Estes got up, lit his lantear
and went TO the door, first putting
the lantern and Jail keys on a boz
in the hall. When he opened the
door three masked gentlemen, two
armed with Winchestcrs and one
with a prodigiously large revolver
entered and covered him with theil
guns. They informed Estes thai
they wanted the jail keys and look
ling round soon discovered them
They forced the jailor behind The
door and taking gum coat from
the wall threw it over his head
Others then came in and unlocking
the jail men went up to the eel
room and examining all the pris
oners took out Shed Fielder, aged
As, Alfred Jones, aged go, and Ept
Jones, aged 40. They locked the
cells and jail and throwing the
keys on the floor they carried the
lantern to the gate blew it out and
left. Leonard Gee and John Lock
EFT. who were employed as guards
were up stairs in the city hall; they
started to come down stairs; they
were covered with guns in the
hands of masked men and
told 10 keep still, they
wouldn't be hurt. 1t is stated that
all the streets approaching the jail
were Sarefully guarded. Tho num-
Der Of The mob is estimated all the
way from twenty to seventy-tive
men. They came to town on horse
back, in the most quiet manner I'M
aglnable, and their presence was
not suspected till the Jail was sur
rounded; the men had nothing to
say, and were as orderly as sol
diers on dress parade; where they
came from or whittier they went is
a mystery. At an carly hour in
the morning the dead bodies of the
three negroes named were found
hanging to the limb of a
PECAN TREE,
about a mile from the jail, on the
independence road, near the
bridge over Sandy. The news
of the hanging spread rap
idly, and was the cause o.
of no little surprise, because no one
had the least suspicion that a hang
ing was contemplated. In addition
to the three hanged negroes there
was five more, viz: Stephen Jack
son, Felix Kinlow, William DAVIS
Andy Hays and john Glass in Jail
all of them were charged with be
ing implicated in the murder o
j Devices Bolton. who was murder
ed by Polk Hill, negro, at Flew
ellen's on the night of the election
and this hanging may properly b'
said to be a sequel to that unpro
yoked murder. Justice Hackwortt
empaneled a jury who viewed thu
BODIES of tho dead negroes and pro
ceeded to take evidence. A mum
Der of witnesses were examined
but no testimony was ELECTED tend
ing in the rcmotest degree to lden
tify any member Of the mob. Tn
inquest was adjourned over til
Tuesday next at 10 o'clock. TIL
negroes were scientifically hange'
with
NEW GRASS ROPES,
and, when found, they were al
facing one way, with their fee
about thirty inches from tn
ground. The bodies were Gu
down, and hauled to town in
, wagon, about 10 o'clock in tn
: morning, and deposited in the jail
New drawers, undcrshirts, sock
and nice shrouds were purchase
= and good common collins procure
}, and the bodies prepared for buria
!, after which they were turned owe
!. to their friends and relatives, VIII
took them to their former home:
near Jewellers for burial.
A few days after their arrest tn
eight negroes were sent to Hou'
!. ton for
SAFE KEEPING,
= and only last week wore brougt
r back by order of the Commission
R er's Court, who evidently appr'
4 hended no danger. The
= made q miscaIculation. TIL
d officers were anxious to get the n
n groes out of Jail and offered to r
e lease all of them on bonds of $50
n each and to take such bonds {
thew could make. but the negroC
acting under the advice of the
Republican friends refused to max
. bond, but lawyer was preparin
Is papers to get them released G
is habeas corpus. Thursday afte
noon the remaining five were +
! leased on bonds of $500 each, goir
u on each others bond. They WEI
y greatly rejoIced at their suppose
lie narrow escape and left for hon
of at once. The hanging was Il
" general theme of
CONVERSATION
- during the day and a variety
Il opinions were expressed; mo
good citizens regret the hangln
hut in the present state of pub
IN feeling it is regarded as one
40 those occurrences that could n
we'll be avoided, and also til
IN the negroes got no mo
70. than they justly deserve
-. The murder of Bolton and the 81
''v sequent mobbing of these negro
ed is the direct outgrowth of the
J a cendlary speeches made by the
no pubIIcans during the canvass a
If the advice OF the two SPECIAL
n VOWS who induced tho negroes
he arm themselves and go 10 the '
'eD ing place at Jewellers. The
lso publican leaders will doubtless
IN tempt to make political capital
this affair and tho defunct dark