The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-18

FREDERICK. Md, Nov. Thames
Goings. who assaulted Miss Lille Jones
at the home of Hamilton Geisbert, near
this city last night was taken from
the Jail by a mob of 500 men this morn
ing and hanged to a tree in a field on
the Jefferson turnpike, one mile from
the city. A report reached the city
about midnight that the woman had
died from the cuts and beating in
f1icted by the negro, and this Infatuated
the men who had been gathering in the
streets and discussing the outrage.
A mob was quickly gotten together
and unmasked, but armed with revol-
vers, the men marched to the Jail.
They had previously broken into a ma
chine shop in the neighborhood of the
jail and procured sledges, crowbars
and files. They made at once for the
door of the west wing of the Jail and
began to batter upon it.
Lead Was Useless.
Fully twenty shots were fired from
the windows above by Sheriff A. H.
Zimmerman and his deputies, but the
mob paid no attention to them and
went on with their work. The jail bell
was rung to summon assistance, but
none came In twenty minutes the
heavy blows. and the mob burst into
the corridor They quickly overcome
the slight resistance the officers on the
inside were able to offer, and found
the cell in which GOingS, covering and
crying, was confined. The lock was
opened, the bolt swung backward and
the trembling wretch dragged out in
his night clothes and stocking feet.
In the meantime the friends of the
lynchers on the outside had lowered
an electric lamp near the Jail, and cut
the rope from it, eXtinguishing the
light. Goings was led out amid the
howls OF the crowd, the rope placed
around him and he was hurried down
the road to his place of doom.
He protested his innocence as they
dragged him along, and begged them
not to kill him. He was promptly rec
ognized by a number of men who knew
him, and the mob did not hesitate in
it's work. Arrived at the tree, the negro
was asked to confess. but this he
would not do. Two officers of the
Salvation Army asked to be allowed
to pray with him, and their request
was granted The Lords prayer was
then repeated, and the negro and most
of the crowd Joined in. Goings' feet
and hands were then tied and the rope
was drawn around his neck A man
seized the other end of it, climbed the
tree and threw the cord over a limb.
Let him co. was shouted, and
quick as a flash he was jerked from
his feet and hung dangling in the air
six feet from the ground. One shot
was fired into his body, and in a few
minutes he was dead.
The mob. during the process of
lynching, observed order; none were
allowed to fire at him except the one.
A member of the mob made a brief
speech in which he said they were
there with the unfortunate wretch not
in a spirit of malice, but to make an
example of him and teach his race
that they must let the women of Fred
erick county alone.
Cruel and DastardIy.
The assault for which Goings suf-
fered death was a cruel and BASTARD
ly one. Miss Jones has eighteen cuts
and stab wounds on her body where
ne hacked at her with a knife and
razor She says he asked her for
something to eat and when she gave
1t to him he said: "I will give you a
dollar" She screamed and ran fifty
feet down the garden, where he over
took her, knocked her down and cut
her, also crushing her nose. The field
in which the negro was lynched is the
same spot where the negro Biggus was
lynched in November, 1887 After
watching the body swing in the air a.
few minutes the crowd left it dan
Cling there and dispersed.