The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-01
EXECUTION BY A MOB.
Lecherous Negro Lynched in the
Streets at Nashville.
TAKEN FROM JAIL IN BROAD DAY.
The Howling, ExuItant Citizens, After
Hanging the Wretch, Shoot His Body,
Then Drag It Away to Be Burned.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 3o.-At mid
night last night mob OF 40 men from
Goodletsville attacked the Jail for the pur-
pose of taking out and lynching Eph Griz-
gard, who, with Henry Grizzard already
lynched, is supposed to have outraged
the Bruce girls on Thursday. The
mob attacked the Jail doors with
sledgehammer, but were unable to
effect an entrance, though they wor ked
several hours at it. Finally Governor
Buchanan appeared on the scene, and
endeavored to persuade the mob to desist,
but without effect. The whole city police
force was finally called out, who charged
on the mob with clubs. In the fight
which followed, several shots were fred,
and a man named n. L. Guthrie was shot
through the lung and died several hours
later. Charles Rear was also shot and
seriously wounded during the fusillade.
At last the mob, finding the attack USE
less. departed, saying they would return
and accomplish their purpose the next
time.
At o'clock this afternoon the mob
again assembled on the square, marched
to the Jail apparently without the interfer-
ence of officers, took Grizzard out, put
rope around his neck, led him out and
hanged him to a bridge across the Cum
berland river, in the heart Of the city,
and then riddled his body with
bullets. At $3.50 the body was
removed from the bridge and carried
to Goodletsville, the scene of tho crime,
by members of the lynching party, which
was composed in part of citizens from that
neighborhood. When the men departed
with the body they said that it would be
burned. Three other negroes also in Jail
upon suspicion of being implicated in the
assault upon the Misses Bruce, were not
interfered with.
After the repulse of the mob last night
the town had an air of suppressed excite
ment all day, and it was generally believed
that lynching would be attempted, but it
was not thought it would be done before
night. The usual Saturday attendance of
country people was noticed to be largely in
creased. and the city people also became ex-
cited. Early in the day knots and small
crowds of men began collecting on the
streets leading to the Jail, and the public
square, but q short distance from the
Jail, was filed with an excited
and angry throng, all talking of
tuo VeuSeduC6 tney desired 10 take.
A little before o'clock, however, DR..
Davis, from the neighborhood of Goodlets-
vile, made a speech to the crowd on the
square and proposed to move on the Jail.
The cry was taken up and the crowd rushed
to the Jail. The outer gate and first doors
had been rendered useless by last
nights trouble and soon q committee of
the mob was in the Jail. They demanded
Grizzard, and the jailer told them he could
not give him up. They seized the jailer,
took the keys. opened the cell doors and
soon had the negro out in the street, in the
presence of bowling, cheering,
exultant mob. About 100 people
were in the vicinity of the
Jail. some taking an active part, but the
majority spectators. All day the police
had been keeping the street in front of the
Jail clear and preventing the collecting of
crowds in front of it.
There were no extra guards in the Jail.
The sheriff was not there, and there could
be no resistance made to the mo b. No in
quest was held.
GREENvILLE, Miss, April 30.-A negro,
name unknown, outraged an S-year-old
child, the niece of Sheriff Anderson, of
Sunaower, near Indianola, Thursday
night last, and last night the brute was
lynched by mob of citizens not far from
the scene of his crime.