Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22
JUDGE LYNCH'S WORK
Far More Extensive in the South
Than Most People Consider It
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY NEGROES
Hanged, Seven Turned, One Flayed and
One DisjOinted In Year.
THE ZIG RECORD FOR THE PAST WEEK

1ePEcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPArcH.l
NEW YORK, May 21-When DR.. Charles
H. PAYNE told the General Conference o
the Methodist Episcopal Church, now hold
ing its session at Omaha, that in the United
States during the past year $50 negroes had
been lynched, burned alive, 1 flayed alive
and disjointed, the statement was received
with amazement and horror But glance
at the papers for the past week will go far
toward proving that DR.. Payne is guilty OF
no overstatement.
According to the weeks record, on May IA
mulatto, Henry James, was hanged in the
streets of the large city of Little Rock for
assaulting the 5-year old daughter of Chas.
johnson, in whose house he was employed
On the same day, at Alexandria, Ala, Tobe
Jackson was caught on the edge of a swamp
near the town, and the mob. after debating
for three hours whether it should hang
or whip him, decided upon the lat.
ter, took the rope from around
his neck, and fogged him until the blood
was streaming from every part of his body.
He was then warned to leave the neighbor-
hood on pain of death if ever seen there
again. He had sent an insulting note by q
negro boy to the daughter of his employer,
and she read the note before the boy could
get away and fired pistol shot after him.
The crowd which assembled at tine noise did
the whipping.
Three Of Them at Time.
On May II mob took three negroes from
the Jail at Clarksville, G., where they had
been locked up for trying to rob bank,
and hanged them to an oak tree. The three
negroes, shrieking for mercy, were put on
horseback, with ropes around their necks
and over the limb. The horses were
whipped and jumped away, leaving the
negroes hanging. As the bodies hung the
mob amused itself by firing shots into them
The bodies were not cut down all day.
On May 18, at Chestertown, Md. a negro,
Jim Taylor, locked up there for assaulting
the 11-year-old daughter of a farmer, was
taken from the Jail by mob of about 100
persons and hanged to tree in front of the
jail. The mob had attacked the jail several
days before, but the Sheriff had slipped
away with the negro and taken him down
the river on a tug. As soon as he got back
the crowd reassembled.
May 10, at Manchester, Tenn, 80 men
hanged Charles Everett, a negro, from a
bridge. He was charged with entering a
room where two girls were sleeping. After
the hanging the mob shot the body full of
holes. The negro was taken from the iail,
and after he was dead the leader of the mob
gave out his own name and assumed the
not-at-all-perilous responsibility for the
lynching.
One Lynching for Every Day.
Besides these cases of hanging there were
several cases of whipping of negroes caught
by mobs and shot down, of negroes looked
for and not found. But the cases specified
above, taken from the papers in six days of
the past week, make six negroes lynched in
different parts of the South, and indicate
that DR.. Payne's statistics may not be wide
of the mark. Nor are these lynchings done
by persons without standing or character in
the various communities.
When the crimes of which negroes are
guilty, or whenever the crimes are commit
ted against the people of their own race,
are not too atrocious in their details, the
people generally permit the law to take its
course. But the understanding is that no
negro must lay hands upon white man of
the better class, and the certainty is that if
he attempts an assault upon a white woman,
death, swift or accompanied BY torture, will
be his fate. The whites say they have
found this the only way of keeping the
more shiftless and ignorant of the negroes
from numerous murders and from daily as
saults upon women.