St. Paul daily globe., 1894-09-02
or Parties Suspected Of Par
ticipation in the
Crime.
STORM OF PROTEST AROUSED
Leading Colored Men In
Washington Talk in Re-
gard to the Affair.

Memphis last night. The
Names of the Dead Are;
DANIEL HAWKINS.
GRAHAM WHITE.
EDWARD HALL.
JOHN HAYES.
ROBERT HAYNES.
WILLIAM WARNER
The prisoners were in charge of De.
tectives w. s. Richardson and A. T.
Atkinson, who had arrested them a few
hours before on charge Of arson. The
negroes were all handcutfed and shack
led, and were on their way to the
county Jail at Memphis. When the off,
GERS reached dense swamp a few miles
from Millinton they we're surrounded
by mob OF fifty men with Winchesters
and shotguns and commanded to halt.
Hold up your hands," yelled the
leader. The detectives hesitated. ''What
does this mean?" one of them asked.
''Never you mind. 1t means business.
Shove up your hands" By this time
the detectives were overpOwered by the
mob.
When the mob surrounded the wagon
the negroes seemed to know instinct
lively what was to be done. They were
sitting OH boxes that had been thrown
about on the floor of the wagon.
One sat on the seat with Driver
Atkinson. A negro in the bottom Of
the wagon rose upon his feet and
threw up his shackled hands. That
motion was his last. for shower of
bullets was poured into his body.
He fell over and out of the wagon into
the road, dead. The negro sitting be-
side the driver threw his arms about
Atkinson. with gesture and eXclama-
ton of supplication. The muzzle of a
shotgun was showed against his
stomach and the charge was sent
through his body. Detective At
kinson was grasped by several of the
mob. hustled up to the side OF Richard
son and there held until the murderons
work was over. Volley after volley
was poured into the bodies of the
shackled and manacled negroes in the
wagon until all of them were dead.
Then the mob took the bodies out of the
wagon, threw them out OH the road and
continued to fire volley after volley into
them. Richardson and Atkinson say
there were fifty people in the mob; that
some Of them wore no disguise
while others had their heads encased in
a dark cloth; but that it was so dark it
would have been impossible to Iecog-
niZe any of the individuals. even had
the officers been we'll acquainted with
the people in that part of the country.
Having concluded its work, the leader Of
the mob shouted Forward. boys"
Guns were shouldered and the members
OF the mob walked back into the woods
that lined the road and disappeared.
The iynched negroes were all accused
OF arson. and all are said to have be-
lenged to an organized band Of barn
burners that had in five years destroyed
and other property of great value in the
vicinity of Kerryvitle, Lucy, Milling ton
and B0lton's College. Tenn.
On Thursday Left LextOn, a merchant
at KerryviIle. came to Memphis, went
before Justice w. w. Hughy. and swore
out warrants against eight negroes who
live in and near Kerryville, charging
them with having set fire to the build
ings at Kerryville fair grounds, which
were destroyed by fire three mouths ago.
These warrants were placed in
the hands Of Detective Richard
son, who had had so much
barn burners. He boarded the Chesa-
peake. Ohio & Southwestern train. and
reached Kerrville at o'clock yesterday
morning. Warner Williams, who
worked on the railroad. was arrested as
he stepped off a hand car at the
depot. Others were found working
in the fields and others were found
at their homes. Darius Bland and
Will Mooring, members of the
gang for whom warrants were served
heard of the arrival of the officers in
time to take flight and escaped. 1t was
the intention of the officers to take the
prisoners to Millinton and bring them
TO Memphis OIL the Chesapeak train at 6
o'clock last night, but they had not made
all The arrests up to that time, and had
to wait over.
There is no Jail In the village, and the
prisoners, as fast as captured, were
manacled and placed under guard to
await the time of leaving. 1t was nearly
10 O'Clock at night when the last arrest
made. 1t was impossible TO remain
over night at Millinton, as there was no
safe guardhouse, and it was decided
to make the Tip by road. S. ID. Tucker,
a merchant there, provided a wagon
mule and horse was hitched to it
and the start WAS made. They had not
piOCCSuSd ldl, HOWStCT, bciCIc LHGy
were overpowered by the mob. After
the bloody work was over the detective
summoned the coroner and an inquest
was held, which resulted in the usual
verdict: THAT the deceased came
TO their death at the hands
of unknown parties" Detective
Richardson arrived in Memphis this
morning and reported the lynching to
Sheriff McLend0n, and Criminal Court
Judge L. P. Cooper. Judge Cooper at
at once sent for the grand jury and in.
structed that body to investigate the
affair and return indictments against
the members of the mob. Later
in the day Judge Cooper is
sued bench warrants for De-
tectives Richardson and Atkin-
son. charging them with completely in
the lynching. and they were sent to Jail
and denied bail. Warrants were also
issued for the arrest of forty farmers
who were supposed to have been men,
bers of the mob. The sheriff. with p
large force of deputies, left this after
noon to make the arrests.