New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-04
3. Altnla1l + Ga
18th St., 18th st., and Sixth Ave.
A NEGRO LYNCHED IN IN ILLINOIS IOON'
TAKEN FROM JAIL By TWENTY-FIVE MEN AND
HANGED IN SIGHT OF HUNDREDS.

TAKEN FROM JAIL By TWENTY-FIVE MEN AND
HANGED IN SIGHT OF HUNDREDS.
Decatur ILL.,. June 3.--Twenty five men walked
into this city of $4,000 Inhabitants this morning ana
strung up "a man in the principal street M''''o.
meeting any opposition Inc Vc'im WIS ""'
Busn a negro accused Of having attacked two whitc
women. The details of the Iynchng We're sehsa
t,onal from start 10 finish Bush in jail awaiting
trial A guard of twelve had been put III inc
laiI extra force were on duty o'''slde' ->o'
300 curious people were standlhS arou"u 'i'
Jail whcn at Just o'clock twenty-five men came on
a rush up Wood-st They were quiet, iIid no ihiSh''
and moved in a solid body. Tucy forced their way
through the crowd and knocked on the jail door
deputy sheriff Midkif and special phccr Poster
who ~, just inside the door, refused them aiin'9Sioh
one blow from sledgc crushed in the wooueh uooi
and the two officers were surrounded. The Keys OF
tic jal demanded, but both officers decEi'cl
they did not have them. The mob then went TO Worh
with slcdge- hammers and chsels on the outside door,
II was solid cast-rOn, an inch thick Twenty minutes
elapsed before II forced. Meanwhile the tro"u
OF Decatur people stood quietly outside. No one
seemed 10 care much. and there talk OF re-
sisiance After ali-hour's the bars across
the co! fidor were forced and With them ock that
opened all the cells
\ frightened negro inside pointed out Bush's cell
Three men rushed III and found 1t apparently empty
They jcrk,d over the mattress and lifted 1t up ana
out tumbled the negro. "Gentlcmen you arc killing
the jail Office ~ many stood arouni that II
took 1--WE minutes 10 pull him through the crowd
10 the street. All this time Bush said nothing, but
The crowd yelled eXcicdly. News of the attack on
The 1aiI seemed TO have spread the town. and
I 100 persoIs by this time on the The
Nuchers went to "a telegraph pole about 600 yards
from the jai, one Of the most prominent corners
IN Tho eli, ard directly In front OF the Court House
An arc light made the spot dis light day. A rope
made OF halter straps had been put around the ncgrs
neck When the crowd stopped at TIE foot OF the
pole he asked :or time 10 pray. Inc said Give
him all The time he wants." and he prayed discon-
nectediy fully ten minutes, while thousand people
crowded around him. many testing
Finally the spectators began TO get impatient a
man had climbed halfway up the pole and stood
In the glare 81 the light all the time. Cut that
Short he said lie gave those women no time"
Others took up the cry, and the rope was passed to
the man ON the pole. He put 1t over wire and
the crowd pulled. The negro's body swung up into
eight four feet from the ground and fell back. ihe
ssnan u.tertnr no sound. Then hack was driven
into the crowd and the negro was told TO stand un
II. lie refused, but half dxcn hands threw him
up and held him while the rope was tied TO The
cross arm ON the pole The hack WIS driven away
and the body fell When the negro had been pro
nounced dead the body cut down by Coroner
Bendure The rope being divided among the crowd
Among the lynchers william Vest, husband OF
the second woman maltreaed and Rolla DILL brother
& ~ nssEo's nTst victim. This was the drst lynch