Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-31
EAST OF TIE ROCKIES.
Fearful Snow Storms and Billiards in
the DakOtaS.
AN OLD HAN BOILED TO DEATH.
New York Courts Hold That Exc
cutions by Electricity Cannot
be Classed as Cruel.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-UN1oN.l
EAST OF TIE ROCKIES.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-uNos.l
RIDpLED WITH BULLETS.
sickening Sight at Coroner's Inquest
List of the Dead,

Sickening Sight at Coroner's Inquest
List of the Dead.
COLUMBIA Is. CO., December 3Oth.-The
Coroner's inquest into the death of the
eight negroes lynched at Barnwell was
held on Saturday night at the scene of the
tragedy.
1t was terrible sight which the iury1nen
looked upon. On the left side of the road
were the bodies of Ripley johnson and
Mitchell Adams, charged with the murder
OF Hetfernan. On the opposite side were
the six bodies of the negroes charged with
implication IN the murder of youngt Robt.
Martin.
They were tied TO trees on the roadside.
with their backs to the saplings. The rones
were passed around the trees and around
The bodies of the men when shot The
weight of their bodies had swung down on
the ropes, and they occupied all sorts OF
grotesque and revolving positions.
The trlghtful character of the wounds
shown by the testimony of the physicians
at the inquest, is in brief as follows: Henry
Furse, ten balls in body, age "a; Peter
Bell, one ball in the back of the neck at the
base Of the skull, age so; Harrison John
son, four balls in the body, age 35: Rafe
Morrall, six balls in the head and BODY.
either of which would have been fatal, age
60; Judge Jones, eight balls. one in the
brain, age %; Robert Phoenix, four balls in
the body, age %; Ripley Johnson, eight
balls in the body, one in the face, age 80;
Mitchell Adams, five balls, one through
brain, age 35.
On this testimony the jury returned a
verdict that eight men came to their death
from gunshot wounds inflicted by some
party or parties unknown.
After the inoupst fha na1roaa rraro
notified that they might remove the bodies
If they desired. The families of Ripley
Johnson and Mitchell Adams removed
their bodies to their homes, but the other
SIX remained and were treated as murder
ers and outcasts, and there were none to
mourn them. Neither whites nor negroes
wanted to remove the bodies. The town
declines to bury them, because they were
killed outside of its limits, but offers to
furnish coffins if the negroes will bury
them.
The remaining negroes declare they pro-
pose to pull up and leave the country.
They assert that there will be no retalia-
ton
REWARD OFFERED.
COLUMBIA Is. c., December 3Oth.-Gov.
ernor Richardson has offered reward of
$500 each for the arrest and conviction of
any of the men concerned in lynching the
eight negroes at B4rnwell.
CoLoRED CONVENTION CALLED.
CHARLESTON Is C.), December 3Oth.-
Prominent colored men of Charleston and
vicinity have issued call TO the people of
South Carolina, reciting the butchery Of
eight of their race at Barnwell, and calling
on the colored people to send representa-
tlves to Convention to be held at Colum-
bia in January, for the purpose of consult
ing and formulating plan by which the
laws can be enforced and order preserved.