Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-03-25
L,vnchlnp in Virginia.
LEE HELM AND JOSEPH DYE HUNG AND
THEN RIDDLED WITH BULLETS.

LEE HEFLIN AND JOSEPH DYE HUNG AND
THEN RIDDLED WITH BULLETS.
wARRENTON, VA. March 1S.-Lee
Helm and Joseph Dye, both white farm
hands, were lynched this morning for the
murder of Mrs. Kinos and her three chill
dren near Calverton, Fauquier county, IN
November last. Yesterday it became
rumored that party of lyuchers would
break into the jail at this place last night
and lynch the prisoners. With view
of circumventing the lyLchers the prs
oners were e. ken ont secretly last night
and started toward GAINESVILLE, on the
Manassas Gan RI lcoad. The party, when
left in wago,, consisted OF SIX persons
Deputy Sheriff. Bra wner and Petit. TWO
jail guards and the two prisoners. AT one
o'clock this mornirg about fifty armed
men came TO Warrenton and proceeded nj
once TO the Jail They demanded adj
mittance. and it was granted, when they
found that the prisoners had been taken
AWAY. The ground was covered with
newly-falen sn0 W, and the lynchers FOL
lowed the track made by the vehicle.
The prisoners were about twelve miles
below Warrenton. in the direction OF
GAINESVILLE. The lynchers rode up sud
denly on the prisoners. Dye was singing
n hymn. "God Will Be with Us Until We
Meet Again" The head Of the team was
seized and forty or fifty revolvers covered
the iailers and their prisoners. A few
seconds sufficed to drag out Dye and
Heflin, who begged for mercy, and were
told that they should have such mercy as
they had given the widow and her chill
dren. Dye declared that Helm was the
cause of the murder. but no time was
spent in parley, and in a few MINUTES the
murderers we're dangling in the air from
/ the largest tree in the helghbOrhOod
They struggled in choking TO death, and
were riddled with bullets TO speed their
death. 1t was Just = o'clock when the
deed was completed.
This morning Acting Coroner Wharton
held an inquest at the place of execution,
and the seven jurors returned a verdict
that "Dye and Helm were dead by the
hands of persons unknown to the jury"
THE CRIME.
Hehin and Dye were sentenced in Jan
nary to be hanged at WarrentOn between
6 and 5 o'clock this morning for the muir
der of Mrs. Hines aud her three children,
near Calverton, on November last, both
men having Bttu iIltu anu CouN icttu VI
the murder. Fearing similar attempt
on their lives, the two men were taken
from Warrenton to Alexandria on No
vember 81 and confined IN jail there til
December ., when they were brought
back for trial. After the men had been
convicted DYES counsel secured writ Of
error from the Court of Appeals, and last
week Helm was respited by the Governor
for sixty days to await tie result OF the
now trial, should Dye secure one. The
people of Warrepton and vicinity, con-
WINGED that the men were guilty of the
horrible murders, and fearing that the
course Of the law might in some way be
turned aside, determined to take matters
IN their own hands, and the result il
given above. When II film was first
arrested he confessed having murdered
; Mrs. Hines and her children, but he after
ward retracted, and declared Dye did The
killing In his presence. The object of The
murder was money, and they secured
about SO