St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-08
SNIPES SMILED
When He Learned the Excite
ment His Alleged Lynching
Had Created.
The Author of the Fake Is o
Newspaper Man OF Limited
Experience.

CINCINNATI, Jan. IA special from
Asheville, n. c., says: Calvin Snipes,
the murderer, smiled when ne learned
through your correspondent, the first
outsider TO reach isolated Bakers
vile, how much excitement his al
legged lynching had created all over the
country and Europe. Nothing what
ever had been heard in BakerSVllle or
the reported trouble until your CORE
spondent rode through the widest
mountain country Imaginable to find
out the true state of affairS. The region
is almost impenetratable from the rail
road station on account OF two
weeks of the severest winter weather
known here in years. The mountain
roads are full OF drifted snow, and most
of the newspaper mans trip was made
in the night time through fierce biz
card. Snow fell so thick as absolutely
to blind person, and the writer had
really to rely upon the instinct of the
horse to keep from losing himself. The
river, up in the mountains, was frozen
over strong enough to bear up four
horse team hauling log wagon. The
thermometer was at zero.
The citizens of Bakersville and Mitch
ell county are highly indignant at the
| lying reports sent out by the man VINO
started the story, and could they get
their hands on him it would probably
go hard with him. The section has
never been more quiet than during the
past week, when the trouble is said to
have taken place. Snipes will stand
trial In May, and some think he may be
acquitted of the crime charged against
| him. Osborne, who was killed in Au-
gust, is said not to have enough friends
TO get up lynching party. Tom and
! Will Whitsou, two other prisoners, VINO
were said to have been Iynched at the
same time as SnlpeS, are not in Bakers
vile Jail at all. They are iii jail here at
| Asheville, instead, and are to be hanged
| Feb. "a for the murder of Kit Burg, III
Mitchell county.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn, Jan. 7.-Ihe
| alleged bloody riot at BakeTSvill, N. c.,
continues to occupy the attention of the
| people of this rec ion and Indignation is
expressed on all sides. Judge Ii. G.
| Hart, of the Washington county court,
was here today. and when asked about
the riot, he emphatically expressed the
| belief that no trouble of any character
| had occurred at Bakers vile or was to
be expected M. +. Aickey, deputy
sheriff of this county, said that the
whole matter was distorted and EiSrep-
resented. He was confident no riot OF
| such magnitude could occur without the
authorities here becoming speedily &C
| quainted with the facts.
| j. W. HyamS, who is generally held
{ responsible for the fabrication and pub
| LEGATION of the highly colored and sensa-
| tional statements which have been sent
out from johnson City, is a son Of w. S.
| Hyams. clerk of the Mitchell county SUI
| perior court. He is about twenty-five
years old, born and raised in Bakers
vile, and his journalistic career has
been limited to his present meteoric
experience. The preponderance of ap-
pearance favors the theory that the
| story was originated solely as specula-
| ton, and was worked in collision with
a representative at Marion, n. c., from
which point stories of the most astoniSh-
| ing and CORY character were sent to
various metropolitan papers. Mr.. HyamS
| is scathingly criticized by the citizens
| here. In conversation with reporter,
Mr.. Hyams said:
MY authority for the Bakersville
story was MI. Stanley, who lives near
that place. 1t was reported just as it
! was detailed to me. lhave since learned
| that Mr.. Stanley was under the in
| fluence of liquor when he told the story.
do not know this to be true. | was
| also Informed by passenger from
| Cranberry that the mail carrier between
! that place and Bakersville brought
news of the lynchlng."