The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1891-02-24
A NEGRO LYNCHED.
He WAS CAPTURED AT RIDGE.
WAY, n. c.
His Crime Was That He Assaulted
and Robbed a Farmer.
by United Press

lBy United Press.
PETERSBURG, Va Feb. 23.-Some DAYS
ago Hugh Hancock, prominent farmer
residing at Melville, Nottoway county,
was assaulted and robbed OF $50 while
passing along road near Blackstone,
station on the Norfolk and Western
Railroad, by burly negro named Scott
Bishop
Bishop made his escape and remained
at large until Saturday night last, when
he was captured at Rdgeway, N. G. by
officer Maxey, the town sergeant Of
Blackstone, to which place Bishop was
brought yesterday morning. Hammock
died from the wounds inflicted by Bish-
op on Friday last, and as soon as the
prisoner was brought to Blackstone.
there were open threats of lynching him.
Every effort was made by the authori-
ties to prevent violence being done to
| the prisoner, but to no avail, and this
morning about o'clock he was taken
from the officers and hanged to the limb
| OF tree about half mile from Black
| stone. The negro begged piteously for
his life, but the mob was deaf to his
entreaties. At IL O'Clock today Bishops
body was still dangling from the tree,
and coroner's jury was being sum-
mOned.
| Two More Men Lynched.
| BRUNSWICK, Ca, Feb. 23-Wesley
Lewis and Henry Jackson were lynehed
by a mob on Saturday night at Dent
swamp, near this city. They had been
tried in the morning at Sterling for the
murder of @. Jordan of that place, and
were found guilty. They were on their
way to this city in charge of posse when
the mob surrounded them aud hanged
them in the woods.
| BRUNSWICK, Ga, Feb 23.-The bodies
of Wesley King and Henry Jackson, the
negroes who were lynched on Saturday
night near Brunswick, were cut down
yesterday in the presence of l. COO peo-
, pie. The faces OF the dead men showed
} little signs of suffering and death must
have been instantaneous. Over 1000
, shots were fired into them as they were
swung up. Early yesterday morn.
ing the population of Brunswick
7 turned out en- masse to visit the scene
f of the lynching. Vehicles were at 6
: premium, and it is estimated that more
than 5000 people made the trip to Den,
: Swamp during the morning A few
{ hundred yards away from the impro
;. vised gallows a country church was il
o full blast, and the singing of hymns
almost within sight of the dead negroe
made the scene weire and impressive
one.
Il Though the affair is very deplored b,
q the better element in Brunswick there i
= no doubt but that it had salutary effec
5 on the lawless gang of negroes who hav
infested Brunswick lately. Those mel
y who were the ringleaders and had rob
n bed more than one store dur
d ing the past month. Their victim, Mr.
i G. Jordan, is still alive, though hi
3 skull is crushed in and death is locke
for every moment. The men were take
into his presence on Saturday and ider
,e titled before their preliminary trial g
II Sterling There they confessed thei
% guilt, which was sufficient FOR th
IS country folks in the neighborhood. A
Al effort is making to trace the lynoher
d and it is thought it may be successful
III Two of them are reported wounded.