The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-07-25
LTNCHED AND CRHM.fTED.
Tennessee Mob Makes Quick work Of
the Negro Lee MnIkrr.

MEMPHIS. TENN. July 2t-r.oe
walker the negro who assaulted Miss
Mollie McCadden, near Bond station and
on the same day assaulted colorad
slri' and who was captured on Friday
was lyHched sunday night. in spite Of
! the TACT that twentv-Uve tyolI-,r,,,.,t
Geputy 'sneriHs guarded the Jail. and that
Shtlin McLendOn had given it ont tbat
the mob should not triumph. Tho Ivocb-
ing was very similar 20 the R3ro,yelI
affair th2 body being crematcd after
harging IN fun view Of 1000 men. women
and children.
The attack on the iail began az II
! o CLOCK. IL was not believed IL ,yOuId
be successful, the mob being composed
chiefly Of 1runkel men asd boys. and
Sheriff McLendon ordered his men not
! 10 hurt anybody. The crowd grew ia
numbers, and at 1215 A. VI. broke down
the Jail gates. Even then .he sheriff
would not permit his men 10 use their
weapons.
Finally a rush vas made. and McT.cn-
don was knocked senseless with "a chair.
lie was carried TO a bedroom. and the
mob battered down the doors, found the
negro's cell. and got him out. He fought
hercely and bit several men severely
He was stabbed and slashed until tho
He was hustled on 10 a telegraph pole
two blocks away, and rope was fas-
tened around his neck. lie was lifted
up, and his then naked body swung clear
Of the ground
Then a big railroad switchman pulled
his legs until his neck cracked The
same man then mutilated the corpse.
The negro was dead or nearly so before
he was hanged.
There ttrara r,roIaf,frr loa
the crowd around the Jail. but not more I
than one hundred took am active part /
I'm the assault and subsequent lvnching |
They were nearly all railroad men. One /
Of them stumbled and fen while the /
victim was being carried 20 the toie-
graph pole and the crowd trampled ON
him, breaking his jaw. and probably
injurng him fatally.
Sheriff McLendon is badly hurt lie
seems TO have concussion Of the brain.
Walker tried 10 commit suicide before
he was lynched by cutting his throat
with glass bottle found I'm his cell
After the body was cut down the mob
raided a lumber-yard and building "a
bonfire burned the dead negro. The
fire was built In the middle OF Front
street, near the Jail BY o'clock the
town had become quiet
Walker was nineteen years OF age.
very black, and as strong as gorilla. /
He was committed 10 jail I'm Milwaukee
six minths ago for assaulting a negress.
Three weeks ago he was released and
came TO Memphis. He was overtaken
Friday at the home Of his father near
New Albany. Miss.
Sheriff McLendon arrived shortly after
he negro was arrested. and slipped him
away from the mob that was forming
Walker confessed as soon as he was ar
'ested.
The sheriff suspended.
MEMPHIS. TENN. July 4.-There is
trong indignation against Sheriff Ne
.endon for his exhibition Of weakness
saturday night I'm turning Lee Walker
ver to the mob that hanged and Gre
mated him. This morning Judge Scruegs
uspended McLendon. pending an investi-
alton, and placed the coroner In charge
f his office. The grand jury will be
allied tomorrow. and il looks as If Me-
.endon will be indicted. The Judge
trongly condemns the lynchng and says
G WIFI bring all the parties 10 Justice
Harry Frayser one OF the mob leaders
'as arrested at noon, and others will be
rought I'm as fast as they can be found