Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-08-18
81 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
ESCAPED The GALLONS
Kings Sentence COMMITTED to Life
Imprisonment.
Gov. Buchanan Hanged In Ehlgy by
Citizens Of Memphis.

mutation of Col. Kings sentence came
very nearly shortening the hours he
had to live instead of lengthening
them. AS soon as the action of the
Governor became known it aroused a
storm of indignation ON every side. A
dispatch was read to the audience at
the Grand Opera House last night dur
ing the performance of the Mikado,
and was received by the audience with
a storm of Kisses.
Today, when the action became more
generally known by the publication in
the morning papers, indignation grew
and Governor Buchanan was condemn
ed most bitterly. This eliminated in
movement to hold an indignation
meeting, which was billed to come off
at II clock tonight. The public was
as tiger cheated out of its prey, and
soon there were whispered conferences
about the street corners, which ended
in plan to lynch King tonight. 1t
was not proposed to wait until mid
night, N to even observe any secrecy.
The whole city would have applauded
the lynching and no participant could
ever have been convicted in this conf
munity.
1t was resolved to demand King early
in the evening, and it was thought the
jailer or sheriff would not make very
vigorous resistance. The sheriff heard
of what was afoot and was very uneasy.
The official communication had not ar.
rived and he was awaiting that before
taking the prisoner to Nashville to the
penitentiary. At 5 O'Clock the papers
arrived. There was no train for Nash.
vile before 10 o'clock, and Sheriff Nc.
Lenden knew the lynching would be
attempted before that time.
At o'clock there was a north bound
train on the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
way, and Judge Dubose issued an in
stanter order to the sheriff to leave with
his prisoner on that train. There was
not moment for preparation or leave
taking. Colonel King was rushed out
of the Jail, escorted by six deputy sher-
ifs, and hustled to the depot. He
would not have seen his wife even but
that she chanced to visit the Jail Just
as the party was leaving. Her son
Haughton was with her, and he tele-
phoned to Kings son in law, R. w.
Brooks, to meet them at the depot. At
the depot King, with his usual bluffing
style, talked about how he was Con-
federate soldier, and was not afraid,
but he was quite willing to 60, and
looked relieved when the train pulled
out. His son Haughton accompanied
him.
1t is not at all unlikely that the
lynching may yet come off. The sher-
if has two routes he may take, one via
Rives and the Mobile and Mckenzie.
1t is thought he will take the latter
route, and project is now afoot for a
lynching party to leave over the Louis
vile and Nashville for Mckenzie, at
1856 tonight, and intercept the sheriff
and his prisoner there. They will reach
there at clock in the morning, and,
with the town asleep and the prisoner
only protected by his son and the sher-
itf, who is a one-legged man at that,
King would stand very poor show.
King was, however, safely lodged in
the penitentiary.
Indignation here is every whit as pro-
nounced as on the day of the murder.
The part Hon. Grover Cleveland took
in the affair is not relished by the peO-
pie of Memphis, who say that he has
lent his aid towards defeating justice,
and by this means encouraging the mob
spirit that is given life by such actions
as that of the Governor. In fact, he
has been roundly cursed by those who
+ swore fealty to him so long.
Mrs. King, the sister of the condemned
; man and wife of ex-Lieut. Governor
!, King, of Kentucky, who was her cousin
wrote to Cleveland and told him of heI
brothers. sad predicament. In Cleve
, lands reply he said he had only {
q superficial knowledge of the case, bu
n from what he knew he expressed thu
> hope that Colonel King would not b.
= made to suffer the death penalty. Thi
letter was, of course, sent to the Gov
ernor, and it was believed that it in
fiuenced his action somewhat. Senate
Harris has killed himself here politi
cally by the action he took in it.
At 1915 O'Clock Governor Buchanan
was burned in effigy at the corner o
Main and Madison streets, the busies
corner of the city. A straw-stuffe'
figure, marked Governor Buchanan,
:, was hung over the telegraph wires an
set fire to, while yelling crowd, com
posed of the usually orderly, respect
- able young men of the city, stoo
around and cursed and vituperated tn
!. Chief Executive of the State throug
- his image until it burned in two. Whe
;. the lower half fell to the ground tn
:, crowd kicked the debris over tn
streets.
n Candidate Stevenson has very littl