The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-24
CUT, HANGED AND BURNED.
The Memphis LynChinS one Of the
Most Savage on Record.

The Black Brute's Clothes Stripped
From His Body BY the Infuriated
Mob-His Throat Cut Before he is
Strung up to Telegraph Pole-He
Clutches the Rope With His United
Hands After the Fall-Cremation
the Finale of the Horror.
Memphis, Tenn, July 23.-The jail Of
Shelby county, within the city limits,
was broken into by several hundred men
at midnight and Lee Walker, a repulsive
black man, aged % years, was taken out
and strung up to a telegraph pole near
the bank of Wolf river, a few hundred
yards from the Jail Afterwards his
body was cremated III the yard of a lum-
ber firm near by. The negroa was ma
tive of North Mississippi and his calen-
dar of crime is among the blackest in his
tory.
WEEK 5 FEARFUL RECORD.
Within the past week he made four at
tempts to commit rape, two of them being
successful, one victim being a small color
ed girl three and half years old, and the
other, a married woman of his own color.
Last Tuesday, Is miles east of this city,
he dragged Miss Mollie McCadden from
her horse on the public highway and at
tempted to outrage her. She only escap-
ed by the aid of her sister, who beat the
villain off with a heavy stick after both
girls were nearly stripped of their cloth
ing.
PURSUED BY ARMED MEN.
An alarm was spread and posses OF
armed citizens chased the negro across
H.,
He was finally captured at the home of
his mother, seven miles from New Al
bany, Miss. AT 10 o'clock yesterday
morning he was placed in jail here, where
he remained until IL: Is o'clock yesterday
morning, when a mob took him out for
execution He made full confession of
his bestial crimes. He had been out Of
jail only a few weeks, where he was
serving a sentence for rape committed
in the vicinity of his home.
GATHERING DOWN THE DOORS.
Wild disorder reigned about the jail as
the mob gathered to wreak vengeance.
The gates of the south wall of the mas
sive structure were forced with bar of
railway iron used as a battering ram on
the shoulders of men and after several
attempts squads of men crowded within
the walls. Sheriff McLendon was struck
over the head with a chair within the
Jail door as he tried to keep the mob out.
He was carried up stairs, placed in bed
and received surgical attention. None of
the mob were masked.
The railway bar was after several at
tempts gotten inside of the Jail and two
iron doors were battered down, the mob
occupying half an hour before they
reached the cell where the victim was.
The man was taken out, all the doors be-
ing thrown open, but no other prisoners
were interfered with.
HIS CLOTHING TORN FROM HIM.
The mans clothing was torn from his
body as he moved with the mob to VIII
liams' lumber yard, 200 yards north of
jail, where he was hanged to a telegraph
pole. He was naked, lighted gas lamp
near by making him plainly visible to the
throng. He was lacerated with knives,
and his throat was cut before being final
ly hanged.
His hands not having been tied, he
clutched at the rope when raised off of
his feet. The sight was CHASTITY one.
He was aman of powerful build, his head
towering above those of the mob who
surrounded him. A. o'clock this morn
ing his mortal remains were only ashes
among the embers of the funeral pyre
with which ne had been destroyed.