St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-22
JERKED INTO ETERNITY.
The ROANOKE NEGRO HUNG TO a
HICKORY LIME.
LATEST TRAGEDY xTNADRAua.

The Black Fiends Body Filled
With Bullets, Then Burned
In Oil - Infuriated Citizens
Threaten the Mayor and Mill
tia For Their Defense of the
Negro.
ROANOKE, Va, Sept. 21.-R0bert
Smith. the negro who so brutally as
saulled Mrs. Henry Bishop Yesterday
and to save whose life nine citizens were
shot dead. paid horrible penalty for
MS devIIlsh crime, shortly before
O'Clock this morning While ]. Allen
Watts. Judge Woods and others were
addressing the crowd. Sergeant Griffin
with TWO officers took the negro from
the jail and spirited him out of town.
1hey carried him across the river in the
woods, but towards daylight they were
notified that squads OF men were scour-
ing tue entire adjacent country. They
thought 1t best to bring their prisoner
back TO town and place him in iail.
They were proceeding to the iail.
and Oh Franklin road, near Tenth
avenue, a squad of men, about
twenty in number, rushed up-
on them and took the prisoner. With
shouts and yeils. the determined men
rushed the negro TO the nearest tree.
He was hanged 10 hickory limb and
his body riddled with bullets and hor-
ribly mangled. 1t was all over bv
O'Clock, and the small body Of men who
had done their work well had dispersed.
With the break of day, crowds of people
thrOnged the streets leading TO the
scene Of the latest tragedy in the double
drama. The sight was horrible to be-
hold. Dangling at the end of a small
hemp rope was the body of the negro.
His face was bloody. distorted and
swollen. A load of shot had been fired
into his back. literally tearing his coat
to pieces. The job was we'll executed
The rope was tied in a regulation hang
mans knot. and the negro's feet were
above the ground. Coroner GRAY and a
jury repaired early to the scene of the
lynchIng, ana after viewing the body of
THE DEAD NAN
rendered verdict tnat the negro came
TO his death at the hands of persons un-
known TO them After the INQUEST the
officers were ordered 10 take charge of
the body, but the surging mass of men
which by this time had assembled
would not let them touch it A coal
cart passing near by was pressed into
service and the body thrown into it. 1t
was then hauled to Mayor Trout's res
Idence on Campbell avenue. it seeming
ly being the intent Of the mob to bury
lt In his front yard. At this moment
Rev. Campbell appeared upon the scene
ana told the mob that such a procedure
would never do. He spoke kindly TO
them and at last dissuaded them from
carrying out their plan. The body dur
ing this time had not been removed
from the cart, SO at the sug-
geStIon of some one in the crowd
they took it over to the edge OF
the river 10 burn il. Fences were torn
down, store boxes taken. and some one
with an ak cut down several cedar trees
near by. The dry wood was LAID in a
large pile. but arranged so it would
burn freely, and on this heap the ne
groe'S body was laid. On top of all the
cedar boughS were thrown, and then.
just before touching the match. two
gallons of coal oil were poured on the
dry wood. The match was touched to
il and the flames from the burning oil
shot rapidly UP. Ii was an awful sight.
and all present felt as if the fiend had
met his just punishment. 1t was not