The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-09-17
ANOTHER LYNCHING.
A CoIored Man Strung Up by a
Mob in Mercer County
FOR THE TERRIBLE CRIME
or Committing an Assault on a Nine
Year Old GlrI-soraething About
the Record Of Crime In this
slato--Bad State orAGaIrs,


sDtciaI Dbpaieh TO ne EHielltgmeT,
BRANwRLL, W, VAp Sept, l8.-sam
uaT"eh 'V MI, W." n ,,o0, IA 5'r.h,o,
assault on Tue "'''s V'''"t uA4Sn'e' NV,
Of Will Johnson, Friday night, az Blue
field Mercer county, was captured Sat-
',sI,, manning examined by the Justice
u'ua' '"O'Ns ,, ~ ~ a,ani IT,. uo
and held over 'or 'ne s'suu 'u'" A'
was lynChed yesterday
Aher the hearing a Sheria'a posse
- wi,b Garner for princeton to
sIA''eu ""A ~ ~ ~. a,.oo Ivh,,o
place hlIl' III IaN Nv 'hS' p'SVo "u"s
enroute a mob oil one hundred masked
man including thirty ColoFed people,
..,nLoI ,bo ouayd and succeeded In
a'AeNen 'Io - :, ~ .,"ano. MI
getting possession u 'ne p''ohe', hhey
took him about two miles east ot Blue.
sald and at II a. m. hung him To an old
ss ,,oo uis deoth struooles were
oSN "'" 80 t. l. saiS .h"t =
horrible TO Witness ~ ID saa w" u
negro adjusted the moose, and that the
lyacheTs stood at distance atter Garner
was strung up and riddled his body with
bullets. Everything isqulet Tonight
Tho above u the sixth lynching that
has occurred IN thls state Tltnln Tue
pasI sISsy aync ""y;S n W. Wsst % VIrinia since tbs
ooenipr SV Of the present year.
For the first six months OF 1889, the
record shows tSs 10 Iess tuH ttad si1t%o " ,o
s,u,S Su,aeS 5Sd That tbat @ he only hanSinQs have ave
been the result Of summary sentences
imposed by Judge Lynch, !. !. and carried ,.S
out ~ a"'ess .UTI nor nt Soss ers T. rs
ing iact 70 eoneiss.e ~, S,t aTes ~
heG1 cfeeb upon i,,st st'I p,s st ,nII Uu' Nu'
anu Ine LiItr ."uI. a;,,ssrs Nv SO ~. looL,r, n,
La"'auiu.us I.1svne hassos ~ =, ii ~ iiab, VI ~
i9e Fcotu Tlan norio ~ sue ~ nW
history W. ~" ses.ns po"ea!sS1 so " DuS ,,nIs
tne ctlui'nals 70 !.s"To, auS 'ne nVns ~
tnai ahy Cne ana, n"s " aeGt ,Le Ho Sa nan;ton
t4i " i, sIE ~ ;V nsosnoots M ~ I ba;ns nar.
uary, WIN iMt ,n.a paUS'eVfIS f0SsoJ a. U1' Pc
dohtu 10 lew ySaS, tuuesu, laSS ,,ss. wy hss
Sotus oI Pafuons ~ sne ySs "SIt aS sS
neen neaty ~ S4ns "au nS laSS ,hSn a
tne IeColns VI eninesi % aIu ~ tHSs ,hson suaJ ";
twenty uanseroIs ,,a uIi.na's, hna1 n,nn"a Sntee VI
1"eul "'u'ue'e's' "ato '''' P"'NV"sN'
Six WEEKS RECORD.
Take tho record OF crime for the past
.;x woeks ior instance Itis confined
e'A ~ ,,,a" W nt ,.aso vonarho
10 elsht counues' VI suese NaIa"n"
and Mcdowell are credited with hVe
each, and Gilmer, Tyler, Boone, Hancock,
Eara,,a and Mercer ma ench the
",'.'V' 4IN s ,.fs,,,..t ,,.' s,.,. ~
last TWO pe'ng 'ynUu'psS w ~oOS VI
masked men.
The first Of this series Of crimes was
committed In Glenville, on August ..
ored Ewing and Jerome Crawford, col;
Fred, became involved IN q quarrel, and
Ewing stabbed Crawford In the arm:
The next morning Crawford was found
lying beside the road leading 70 MS
home with his skull crushed IN. Ewing
Is IN jail on suspicion.
On Friday, August y, aWidow named
Glllis, and her two grown daughters,
were assaulted and murdered IN their
cabin IN lonely part Of Mcdowell
county. Two brothers named Hollis9,,
were suspected ol the crime, and MOP
ss,5uE s. sae,n s W ~ 5oS,S aee W 'ne ne'''
Ir6aSod sayre and james Dixon ouar.
ralpI ovor th1 divisinn nj n cron IN Tv.