Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-19
A GEORGIA LYNCHING.
A Negro Hung by n Mob for Attempt
ing to Outrage Young Girl.

Walter Asburg colored. alias Berriam was
lynched at Pooler, Ga. ten miles west of Sa-
vannah, early yesterday morning for assault
upon Lulu kissman, a seventeen-year-oid Ger
man girl. yesterday afternoon. The assault
was made upon the girl at her home in the GEN.
ter OF the town while the family was away. She
was terribly beaten in a struggle with her as
saiant, but she successfully resisted him. Her
clothing was torn from her body, her face ter
ribly beaten and gashed and one eve was
closed. The finger prints Of the negro were
left on her neck and her cheeks were torn and
bleeding. Her neck was so wrenched that she
was unable TO turn her head. The strug-
gle must have lasted several minutes. The
hoor and furniture were covered with blood
and the girls hands were bloody from the
struggle. Her cries attracted a colored man
who was near by and who rescued her from her
assailants clutches. Asburg sprang through
door and escaped, but in the next house he
knocked woman down, seized double-bar-
relied shotgun and fed TO the woods. In an
hour the whole town was in arms and 4 mounted
posse started IN pursuit About midnight the
negro was found at a low dance about a mile
from the scene of the assault He was taken
back to the girls house aud she identified him
as her assallant His clothes were covered with
blood from the encounter With the girl. He
confessed the crime and begged for mercy.
Three hundred masked men carried him 10 an
open field, where he was strung up TO a tree
and his body riddled with bullets. Across his
body was pinned paper with the inscription:
This Is the way We protect our homes" The
body was left hanging and will probably be
cut down by the coroner tomorrow. The lynch
ing party was SO strong that the authorities
were unable to take Asburg from them.
While j. Morgan. an employe of the Maumee
rolling mill at Toledo. was working with bar
of red-hot iron the metal in some manner pene-
trated his groin, and he died in ten minutes
Ex-Gov. John G.. Brown, late receiver of the
Texas and Pacific railway, died Saturday at
Boiling Springs, Tenn.
At Mauch Chunk, Pa, William c. Morris ir
for many years general auditor of coal accounts
for the Lehigh Valley railroad company. was
stricken with apopleKy yesterday and expired
instantly.
L. C. Meres and o. s. Reede. English lawn
tennis players, have arrived in Newport. r. l.,
for practice at the Casino grounds preparatory
to the opening of the national tournament on
Wednesday
The Unionville mills in Montville. Conn,
have shut down owing to financial embarrass-
ment. About two hundred and fifty hands are
thrown out of work
Delegate Clifford of Dakota has announced in
dispatch to the Pierre board of trade his opin-
ion that the President may open the Sioux
land by proclamation Immediately upon the
report OF the commission.
The new Milwaukee natatorium, which was
recently completed and accepted by the city on
Wednesday, collapsed with crash Yesterday,
the hoors giving way. No lives were lost. The
loss is $50, 900 and falls on the city,
Marcia Guernsey Beach, wife of the Rev. J.
w. Beach of Essex VT, drowned herself in
the Wlnooski river Saturday night. She was
insane and her malady was aggravated by the
re cent death of her mother
Elias Loomis, i. L. D., Munson professor of
natural philosophy and astronomy at Yale,
died at the New Haven hospital Friday