The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-16
TAEENFROM JAIL AND HUNG
Lizzie Helms RaViSheT LynChUd At
0Cala.

1-if+1 Men storm the Jail At Breakfast
Time and Compel the Man in Charge
n surrendeE the Prisoner-Youug
17orcsd to Confess His Crime Before
Being Swung of-Threats of Lynch
;,g Loud Mouthed Black if BE
roas Not Leave the Community.
Ocala, Fla, May 15,-The feeling grew
very strong among the people yesterday
that summary vengence should be meted
orr 10 the ravisher of Miss Lizzie Helm,
81 South Lake Weir, confined in the
Marion county Jail Toward that end, a
crovd of 400 men fiocked into the court
house at 9 80 O'Clock at night f. G. Bird
vas made chairman. Discussion fol-
loved as to what should be done with
MIN Young. The majority of the crowd
we're for instant lynching, others wished
m satisfy themselves that he was guilty.
AsEd Chase, who brought the negro
70 Ocala had confded the story
n Isaac Stevens and Judge w. S.
pullock, Mrs. Helms legal advisers.
They were called on. Mr.. Stevens spoke
frst. and Judge Bullock corroborated his
statement. and while he assured the
oroyd that the negro mad assaulted the
GIRL he counseled that the law be allowed
n take its course, which advice was re-
caived with hisses and howls of derision,
bv the indignant crowd. 1t was then de-
cided to interview Sheriff Hodge, who
was found at the jail in company with his
dopptv. Mr.. Nugent, and Jailer Charley
Smith. armed to their teeth. The sheriff
refused to give up the prisoner and
said if they attempted to take him
it would be at their hazard
THY LYEcHIYe GOES OVER TILL MORNING.
The sheriff meant business and the
crowd so understood it and scattered
but in doing so requested all who wished
toparticipate TO in the lynching of Young. to
meets at Carmichael's at the Florida
Central and Peninsula depot at 7:30
o'clock this morning. Fifty responded at
the hour named, went to the jail with a
sledge hammer and broke the lock to the
Iail yard gate. Jailor Smith, who was
the only one on duty, the sheriff and his
deputy having gone to breakfast, seeing
resistance was useless, opened the front
door of the building and the party
entered, secured the prisoner
hustled him to tree south
OF the city cemetery, impressed a
Cubans wagon into service, tied the
negr0's hands and legs, adjusted the
rope and pulled him up, but let him down
to make a confession first. He said his
brother did the deed; compelling the
prisoner to hold her hands. Knowing
this was a falsehood, he was warned to
confess and another hoist brought out
the truth He was then strung up and
left till dead. The whole proceedings
did not last a quarter of an hour, and
was done before outsiders had heard of
It. Tne lynching crew was headed by an
unknown Georgian. The crowd had de-
termined to have the prisoner at any cost,
even to blowing up the building and
the prisoner with dynamite bomb
The news Of the lynching spread like
wild fire, and in half an hour l, 900 per-
sons had gone to see the suspended
corpse
no DOUBT OF HIS GUILT.
That the brute was guilty is proven be-
yond question, as Ed Chase and a negro
named Brennan, who assisted in cap
turing him near Weirsdale yesterday
"A morning brought him back to Mrs Helm
and her daughter for identification. They
Identified him, but by request of Helm,
CnaSe was to take him to Ocala, turn the
negro over TO the authorities and tell only
Judge Bullock of the crime. Had the
WeSdale people known he had com
IA nltted the crime, Young would never
n nave been permitted to have been brought
& to 0cala.
folngs remains We're viewed by a cor
oner Jury this afternoon, and were cut
down buried.
p, Excitement ran high this afternoon.
IhIeats We're made, and it was predicted
tnat II certain Ocalo negro, who said
Il Fhching raping negroes must stop or
Enlte blood would flow, did not make
A!nSelt scarce the community would find
nS remains tomorrow morning tied to a
VIVA mustang and he feeding in the piney
n woods