Telegram-herald., 1891-10-03
Wholesale LINCHING
Nine Negroes strung Up by . Mob
IN Arkansas.
IHEY WERE SHOWs no LEyIEyCY
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MsnFaIs. Tenn. Oct 2-Eine NJ
groes were hanged Wednesday evening
by al armed mob As they were being
conveyed by sherifs FROM Cat Island
10 Mariana. Ark Two OF the same
gang were shot earlier in the day, one
IN being captured and the other by an
armed posse
A week ago the negroes Of Lee coun-
", Ark. began . strike for higher
wages for cotton picking and were ex-
Assted 60 deeds Of lawlessness by worth
xess negroes Of this city who have no
trade or occupation other than ioafing,
crap shooting and loud talking. The
Clubhouse on the j. Il. Frank
plantation was burned Friday night
and the overseer. Thomas Miller. way
laid and killed Saturday. The rioters
then made for the Mississippi river.
hoping to escape to this city,
where they would be safe. They
were closely followed. however.
and Saturday night two of
lthem-Patterson and Pcyton-were
discovered by the parties In pursuit
When called upon to surrender they re-
fused TO do SO and were fred on by the
officers. but not until they had shot at
the deputies. Both men were wound
ed. but not seriously.
Wednesday Deputy Sheriff Frank
Mills, of Lee county. got on the trail of
the rioters and moved steadily upon
them in the almost impenetrable jun
gle Their place of hiding is in the
river bottoms where there are 10000
acres covered with tall cypress trees,
with an underground Of cane 20 feet
high and matted together with bramble
briers and creepers until passage is al
most impossible except on foot, and
difficult at that. The posse, numbering
six. finally came upon Peyton and Pat
terson. and as soon as the negroes saw
they were discovered they opened ire
upon the posse, which was returned
with deadly effect, Peyton being killed
outright and Patterson being wounded
in three places about the body. Patter-
son feigned death, but Mills discovered
his trick, chained him, and moved him
To the landing 10 put him On the Lee,
with a view of bringing him TO
Mariana, via Helena As the Lee
landed at Hacl<lsys the boat was
met by armed white men, who
came on board and demanded Patter-
son Mills had the wounded and ter
rified negro chained to heavy piece
of machinery in the barber shop ci The
boat. and knowing resistance to Be
madness surrendered him to the band.
Patterson was taken tremblingly from
the boat and as the boat backed ou.
from the Arkansas shore . fusilade
from many Winchesters ended his life.
Sheriff Riddick and posse left Ca,
Island Monday evening with nine OF
the thirteen rioters, conveying them to
Mariana 10 Jail They were over
taken by an armed band OF white reg
ulators and after desperate struggle
the nine black prisoners were taker
from tho sheriff and his men and
hanged to sycamore tree.
The negroes, under guard of the
posse. were moving slowly through the
dense underground. when without the
slightest warning they were CON-
manded TO halt, and at the same mo-
ment the barrels OF Winchesters
CLEANED through the bushes in every
direction The sheriff was ordered 10
surrender the prisoners, and, seeing re-
sistance was useless, he did so. The
mob was composed of forty or fifty
men Without any ceremony the ne
groes were dragged to the nearest tree
and inside of fifteen minutes nine
bodies were swaying with the breezes
The mob poured = parting volley oi
bullets into the remains and dispersed
as mysteriously and quietly as it came
The sheriff was told to go home with
his men. and he proceeded TO do Sc
I.f.