The Green Forest tribune., 1893-05-18
A M0B'S DARING DEED.
THREE NEGROES HUNG AT BsRDEA, THIS
STATE, FoR NUMBERING GAMERcrANT.
Hickey, the Alleged Murderer of John M. Clayton,
Has Seen Turned Loose

1as Seen Turned Loose
CAMDEN, ARK, May 13.-A mob of
800 men took from the Jail and lynched
Abe Grain, aged 25; Doe Henderson,
aged As; and Jim Stewart, aged 20, at
Borden, 16 miles North of here, on the
Sth inst. The lynched men are all ne
groes.
Jesse Norman, respectable young
white merchant, was murderously as
saulted late Saturday night. He was
waylaid, knocked down with an AK and
left for dead. The blade of the ak pen
etrated the skull. The object of the
assassins was robbery, and they took
his pocket-book from his hip pocket,
containing considerable currency, but
during the excitement they failed to get
a bag of silver which be had in another
pocket.
An alarm was sent out when the
body was discovered next morning. and
searching parties were organized i'm
mediately. Before the sun went down
Sunday night the three brutal assasslns
were in the hands of the law. One of
the negroes, thinking to save himself,
weakened and gave the details of the
plot to murder and rob young Norman.
The negroes We're placed in the town
| calaboose and guard was placed over
! them. Monday night mob surround
ed the prison, overpowered the guards,
and took the negroes out and hanged
them to telegraph poles in the suburbs
of the town. The negroes all confessed
when taken out by the moi.
There were rumors Of the mob abroad
in Camden early in the day, and the
Sheriff summoned u possee and wentup
to Borden to protect the prisoners, but
when the posse arrived the lifeless bod
les of the three negroes were dangling
from the telegraph poles. The mob
had dis persed, and all was quiet in the
village.
It seems the mob had heard the Sher-
iff was coming, and, fearing detention
and trouble, hurried their prisoners to
the railroad, and having secured the
necessary number of feet of grass rope,
they cut it into three pieces, fastened Il
moose around the neck OF each, threw
one end over cross piece Of u tele-
graph pole and at the word ready"
dozens of hands pulled the struggling,
begging negroes from earth into space.
Though securely tied hand and foot,
they jumped and twisted fearfully, until
death by strangulation resulted. Their
mission having been accomplished, the
mob silently dispersed, and when the
Sheriff and posse arrived soon after
ward not trace of single participant
could be found.
The Governor offered a reward, on
the 10th, of $3.50 each, for the arrest
and conviction of the parties who did
the lynching. He also addressed the
following letter to Hon. II. P. Smead,
prosecuting attorney of the Thirteenth
Judicial Circuit:
1T is reported that a mob has mur-
dered three men at Borden, in Ouachi ia
county. The inference that the courts
and officers of the law are utterly inef-
ficent in that county to which such an
outrage leads is, feel sure, unjust and
false, yet, however much we may re-
sent such an inference, it will be ac-
cepted by the public generally as true.
Nor are the people and the officers of
Ouachita County alone involved. The
whole State is disgraced by this cow
ardly mob murder. This numbering by
mobs is but a species of assassination.
The assassin hides behind a tree in the
darkness of the night, while the mob
murderer takes shelter behind the
crowd. It cannot be tolerated in COM
munity makiny any pretentions TO civ
ilization. l sincerely hope you will
bring the guilty parties to justice. 1t
can only be broken up by hanging few
of the participants and teaching them
that we live i'll land Of law"