The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-19
His Body Riddled
with Bullets.
Warnings Pinned to the Dead
Mans Clothes.
THE MOB'S QUICK WORK.

Walter Asbury alias Berrien, the negro
assailant of Lula Kissman, was lynched at
Pooler between u and o'clock yesterday
morning, and his bullet-riddled body
dangled from tree in an open lot near the
Central railroad last night Acting Coro-
ner Naughtin, who was engaged IN the
Tybee investigation yesterday, will go up
this morning and cut down the body.
The.story of the negro's astrocious as
sault upon the the girl was given in
the MORNING News yesterday The crime
excited the people not only of Pooler but
of the entire western part of the county.
The assault was committed between 3 and
o'clock in the afternoon, and before night
masked men, mounted and armed with
shotguns and Winchesters, were galoping
their horses over the country. securing every
place and searching every house where the
negro could possibly be concealed. No
vigilance committee was ever more deter
mined in its work.
800 MASKED MEN IN PURSUIT.
Between $50 and 300 men were formed in
squads and started out in every direction.
People ON the roads were made to stop and
give their names before they We're allowed
to pass. Until late hour the pebple. who
had watched the maneuverings Of the
mounted men, blew out the lights in their
houses and stood on the
porches to see what would
be the result. One squad was sent in the
direction of Savannah; one went on the
Augusta road, another toward Macon, and
two or three squads went out on general
skirmish. The house where Asburv lived
was carefully guarded, but the negro had
deserted it. 1t was not alone the white but
the colored people as well who wanted
Asbury.
The west-bound fast mail train due at
Pooler at 8 o'clock was held up the maskers
until every coach had been searched for
Asbury. The train stopped at the Charles
ton and Savannah crossing, aud it was
thought that Asbury might have gotten on
the train at that point expecting to 60
through. A colored man was discovered on
the pilot and it was thought that Asbury
had been found, but it was only tramp
stealing ride to Macon.
CAPTURED AT A DANCE.
The search lasted until II o'clock, when
a squad of men in which were several intel.
ligent colored citizens drew up in front of
Willis Spivey's house, three-quarters of a
mile from Pooler, where ball was going on.
There he is" said one of the colored
maskers as he dismounted
Bring him outl Bring Asbury outp'
shouted hundred voices and the men dis
mounted hurriedly and surrounded the
house. In moment there was a stampede.
but the doors were guarded and nobody
was allowed TO come out.
"Hims not hesh," shouted some of the
people in the house The maskers had nc
time to lose, and began to investigate fol-
themselves. Two colored men of the
party discovered Asbury crouching
in chimney corner behind
some rubbish. AS the men seized him
he made a vigorous struggle to wrench
himself loose from their grasp, but it was nc
use.
IN THE MOB's HANDS.
When he saw that he could not get away
he began to plead with the men to let him
go. but in moment the mob had hold of
him and he was hustled away across the
fields to the house of his victim. At the
station two shots were fired, signaling the
men together. and within half an hour 300
masked men were congregated around the
man. Asbury was stood where ali could see
MIN and he was asked few questions by
different members of the mob.
All OF the maskers had torches. and thew
hgnted up the town as they passed through
a. carrying the doomed negro to the home