The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-31
CHASED By MOBS
Thrilling Escape of a Negro As
Sailant Of a Woman.
MET BY A MOB IN EVERY TOWN
He Is Chased Over 1000 Miles. Shot Mt
Number of Times, Thrown from Train,
and Finally Landed in Jail.

lSpeeiSlto THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch
MoRRIsTowN, Tenn, May 3U.-Chsrles
Veins. colored, is in Jail here charged
with attempting TO assault white woman
at Chattanooga. May 10. Veins was ar
rested Immediately after the alleged as
sault and jailed at Chattanooga. The next
night mob captured the jail. only to find
that Veins had been spirited away. His
whereabouts were unknown for twentv--
four hours, when he was located in Nash
vile.
Inc mob spirit became rampant and q
second riot followed in ths capitol CITY. in
which dozen men were hurt, one seri-
ously A fire engine was sent whirlfne
through the streets to draw the crowd
from the Jail, but it did not break. Thepo-
lice forced the crowd back while Veins in
the garb of cook, boldly walked out and
joined the officers at the depot. Then be-
gan race that out-classes anything this
state, and probably any other, has ever
seen. Veins was taken to Guthrie. XIV
but was compelled to leave in an hour 10
avoid the mob.
The telegraph operators along the rail-
roads joined, and as far as possible kept the
towns ahead informed. Veins was taken
10 Clarksyille that night, the mob sur
rounded the jail at midnight Veins and
the laller and Deputy Sheriff Sellar OF
Chattanooga, all heavily armed. with
cooked revolvers, marched through the
crowd to the depot. The train was fred
on at every station on the way back to
Nashville. Late as it was an armed mob
paced the station platforms and made ugly
threats.
Nashville reached the officials refused to
take Veins. A start was made for Chata-
nooga, but not before twenty-five armed
men had came aboard and announced their
lynched.
Every town along the route furnished
meanclng crowds ard guns were thrust
through car windows. AT Tulahoma a
thousand people stood on the track and
stopped the train.
Ihomas Carpenter, a leading citizen,
made an eloquent address and the lynching
was postponed. Chattanooga had been in
formed OF Veins coming and q mob had
gone out to Waahatchie, six miles from the
city, to lynch him. The officers heard of
1t at Hooker, and while the train was
running twenty miles an hour, Veins was
thrown on the car, the officers jumping
after, followed by four of the armed men,
who were captured and tied to trees, while
the trio took to the mountains, tramping
for eight hours over Raccoon and Lookout
mountains, fording streams and plunging
Through forests in the blacklist of night
to Ooletwah, Ga, ali through the night
they heard their pursuers and saw their
torches.
at Ooletwah, which was reached at day.
break. they took the train for Knoxville,
which was reached in the afternoon
Veins was denied admission 20 the Jail.
He had been at Lebanon, Athens, Cleve-
land and other points, and was brought on
to this places, where he was locked ur. In
five days he Travelled 1000 miles, saw over
200 mobs ready to lynch him, was refused
admission to score of jails, was attacked
in three, went twenty-four hours without
food, during which time he travelled TWEEN
ty- FIVE miles over the worst mountains in
the state, was thrown from train, was
shot at, visited three states and was so
near two others he could see them. Veins
claims the woman met him by sppoin smeul.