The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-20
PLOT OF THELYNCHING
Whole Story Laid Before the
Proper Authorities.
GRAND JURY GIVEN THE FACTS
Tho Evidence Shows That the Dastardly
Crime Committed Near Mi1lington
Was Carefully Planned-Shsri6's Son
Exposes the Conspirators.

Crime Committed Near Millington
Was Carefully Planned-shsrin's Son
Exposes the Conspirators.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, September 10.-The
whole plot of the lynching of the six al
legged negro incendiaries near Milling
ton the night of August % has been
laid bare, and before many hours elapse
every man implicated in the conspiracy
will be in Jail. Robert McCarver, son Of
]. A. McCarver, Sheriff of Shelby county,
il the man who exposed the conspirators.
He was before the grand jury last night,
and told the whole story. In his testi.
mony he said he was invited to particle
pate in the lynching by H. N. Smith,
one of the men now in Jail under in.
dictment for completely in the lynching.
Smith gave McCarver the names of tho
men who were to compose the mob, and
told him how the negroes would be ar
rested by Detective w. 8. Richardson,
placed in q wagon and driven to Big
creek swamp, where they would be in
waiting. When the invitation to par
ticipate was given to young McCarver,
it was represented that his father knew
of it, and that Judge Cooper of the
Criminal Court was not in the dark.
These representations were untrue, and
were made by Smith with the intention,
if possible, to mix Sheriff McCarver in
the affair through his son, 80 that his
hands would be tied if any investigation
should be instituted by the authorities.
Young McCarver declined to join the
mob, and the day after the lynching
disclosed the details of the plot to Joseph
Theirs and Hoffman. 1t was through
these men that the grand jury obtained
it's first information about the conspiracy
AID the importance of McCarver's testi-
mony. In the Criminal Court to-day
Judge Cooper after hearing McCarver's
statements ordered him placed under
$1O,O 600 bonds to insure his presence at
the trial of the lynchers.
ASSISTANT WARDEN INDICTED.
MEMPHIS, September 10.-The grand
fury has sprung sensation with an in
dictment against William Cox, the as.
sistant warden at the county Jail, charg-
ing him with perjury in connection with
the lynching Of the six alleged negro in
cendiaries near Millington q week ago.
It is alleged in the indictment that Cox
was cognizant of and party to q con-
spiracy to lynch the negroes, and that he
told Joseph Theirs and others the day
before they were murdered that there
would be q necktie party In the vicinity
of Kerrville and Millington Friday night.
Cox denied this statement when he was
called before the grand jury, and the
Indictment for perjury followed. Cox
was arrested and locked up.
MASS MEETING OF NEGR0Es.
MEMPHIS, September 10.-A call was
issued yesterday by the pastors OF oil the
negro churches for mass meeting to-
night for the purpose of publicly thank.
ing Governor Turner, Judge Cooper and
the white citizens of Memphis for the
they have shown to bring
the Millington lynchers to justice. Funds
will also be raised for the widows and
orphans of the six negroes Who were
murdered by the mob. * "a