The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-12-28
GEORGIA MOB
Kills Seven Negroes Ton Miles
From Quitman, Ga.
A Negro at Augusta. Ga, Kills One Negro,
Wounds Another. Then Kills the Town
Marshal aud shoots Others Of tho
Posse-A Lyhehlng IL Probable.


Wounds Another, Then Kills the Town
Marshal and shoots Others Of tho ! |
Posse-A Lyhehlng IL Probable.
QrIrMAN, Ga, Dec. 2i.-The posse in
pursuit Of Wayerly Pike, the murderer
OF Joe Isom, Saturday night and early
Sunday morning killed three Negroes,
and reliable information is that the to-
tai number Of victims is seven.
The Negroes known TO have been
killed are Sam Taylor, Eli Fraser,
Harry Sherrard. Taylor was Pixies
stepfather, and the other Negroes his
close pals, all Of whom were supposed
TO know OF Pixies whereabouts II
these Negroes knew they refused to
tell, and the penalty Of not telling was
death
Pixies wife was seen to slip into his
house at 4 o'clock Sunday morning.
She was supposed to know where the
murderer was and every effort was
made to make her divulgc. The mob
has her securely held and may succeed
in making her tell The Negroes
killed were all shot down on this side
Of the ocopilco creek, about ten miles
above Quitman. The report Is that n
second posse, which was securing tho
woods north Of the ocopilco have
killed four other Negroes
This wholesale killing Is terrible,
hut the people OF that community
ciogr, 70 haze had terrthlo ,,r,yocot ion
Hardly three weeks ago Tip Mauldin,
a respectable white man, was muir
dered on the public road in the same
neighborhood by two Negroes, and
the murderers are now in jail. When
lsom. the best citizen in the eommun-
ity, was cowardly murdered by one OF
this same gang, the pentup flood Of rage
and vengeance was turned loose.
The record OF Sunday night and
Monday remains 70 be seen Brooks
county isaroused. The wholesale kill
ing Of negroes not directly connected
with lsoms murder is severely con-
demned, and il is hoped that the aveng-
ing mob will do no more OF this mad
work.
AUGUSTA, Ca, Dec. 24.-Jabez Wig
gins, negro, waylaid Walter Will
iams, also colored, on the South Caro-
lima side OF the river, several miles
from Augusta, Saturday night, killing
him. and, II IS said, attempted TO Kill
another negro. The murderer fled TO
Augusta.
Negroes living in the vicinity OF tho
crime learned that he had come TO this
city and was nt the home of his sister.
They followed him here and asked as
sisiance at police headquarters to make
the arrest. Detective Joe Murphy was
detailed for the work, with instruc-
tions TO call for further help from the
police precinct In which Virgins Sis
ter's house was located. Officers Wrenn
and Stringer accompanied him.
Virgins was told by his sister OF the
approach OF the officers, and as they
entered the house the murderer opened
fire upon them, shooting Murray twice
IN the face and stringer in the eye.
stringer may recover Murray IS dead.
The Negro then hed, followed by
Wrenn.
The pistol shots attracted people IN
the neighhorhood to the street and
among these was John Davis, white.
Davis was shot in the breast by q bull
let from the murderer's pistol and died
in half an hour Wrenn pursued the
fugitive TO the river bank where the
Negro hid behind elump OF trees
Holding pistol aloft in his right hand,
he told the officer that he surrendered,
and to come take him The officer adj
vanced, and the Negro shot him in the
leg with long-barreled pistol he had
concealed in his left hand,