The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1893-08-03
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Horrible Tor, ,i,e of Two Negro ASSa.l-
an'--A Third Hanging Expected.

an'~-A Third Hanging Expected.
Columbia, 5. c.. July 30.-A
douoie lynchlng took place at Gas
ton tolt,, winch for brutality and
savig-nes> surpassed anytlng; ever
enacted III tl., Stat. Both victims
Were ies.ues who committed all as
sau upol Mrs. S,s shtler, of CASTOR.
The first one captured was Will
Ihom pson, .au o.ci-eto"n l6 year
old negro. He was caught hear
Colu ubla, and Was taken back early
this morning where his captors were
met by mob of 200 persons, who
We're joined by 100 men from this
city. Thompson was piled with
questions and confessed that he and
Tom Preston aud Andy Kaigler,
both co!ored, committed the crime
one week ago.
The crowd was terribly enrased,
and some wanted to nail hi,n t. a
turpentiue barrel and burn him.
The man begged them for God
sake not to kill him that way, Some
cool men in the crowd prevented
such tragedy, and Thompson was
taken to the railroad, 100 yards dis
tant, to small tree, where he was
to be hung. Before this took place
Arch Sightler, husband Of the out
rage woman, with the consent of the
crowd, laid fifty lashes upon the
wretch's bare back with IL heavy
buggy trace, every blow bringing
blood. When he got tired another
m IN took his place AMI continued
the whipping. Thompson could not
yell, for a rope around his neck
choked him. When the whipping
ceased Sightler kicked the victim in
the face and head, knocking out his
teeth and almost one eye. A plat
form of cross-ties was erected and
the negro was made to get upon it
The rope was put over limb and
around his neck and the ties were
knocked out one by one The ne
gro's struggles were terrible to wit
ness, but the crowd seemed delight
ed at his sutferiugs. After hanging
for two minutes, 100 men fired into
his DO ~ with pistols, shotguns and
rifles. Hardly a square inch of his
body escaped bullet. A ball cut
the rope and the body fel! like lead
but was again pulled up and The
crowd continued shooting for some
minutes into lis lifeless body.
The crowd then went to search fol
Preston and to get Kaisler out Of
Lexington Jail. At II o'clock Ton
Preston was captured seven mile
from CASTOR and was at once takel
to the scene of the early mornings
tragedy. Here all the horrors of tn
Thompson lynching We're re-enacted
Preston was stripped and pinlone'
to the sa me pile of cross-ties whlcl
had served as a scaff0ld for Thomr
son. Arch Sightler with the sam
heavy buggy-trace beat the unfoi
tunate wretch until his strength be
came exhausted. The whipping wa
continued by others of the mob ur
r til the negro S entire body was mas
:. of scaritied, bleeding flesh. At
/, o clock. after Preston had regainet
; consciousness, he was swung up t
i the same limb to which Thompso
!, had been hanged four hours before
aud his body literally riddled wit
bullets. Preston declared his il
noncence TO the last.
>, 40 O'Clock tonight the mob a
Lexington Court House had swelle
to 1000 persons, and an attack upo
the jail, where kalgler is confined, wa
momentarily expected. It is not be
: lieyed that the Sheriff will offer an
serious resistance to the mob, so
is foregone conclusion that ere tt
morrows sun the third of the assai
ants will have paid the penalty c
their crime.
Children Cry for
Pitchers Casf0Yia.