Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-18

Frederick, Nd, November 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 three hundred men
this morning and hung to tree in a
field on the Jefferson turn pike, one mile
from the city.
A report reached the city about mid
night that the woman had died from the
cuts and beating inflicted by the negro,
and this infuriated the men, who had
been gathering in the streets and dis
cussing the outrage.
A mob was quickly gotten together,
and unmasked, but armed with revolv-
ers, the men
MARCHED TO THE JAIL.
They had previously broken into a
machine shop in the neighborhood of
the Jail, and procured sledges, crow
bars and files. They made at once for
the door on the west wing of the Jail
and began to batter upon it,
Fully twenty shots were fired from the
windows above by Sheriff A. II. Zim-
norman 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 large door
panels gave way under the heavy blows,
and the mob burst into the corridor.
They quickly Overcame the slight resist
ance 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
back, and the trembling wretch seized
and dragged out in his night-clothes
and stocking feet. In the meantime the
friends OF the lynchers on the outside
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 his
neck, 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
its 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 al
lowed to pray with him, and their re-
quest was granted The Lords prayer
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 60" 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 that 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 Frederick county alone
The assault for which Goings suffered
death was q cruel and daStardly one
Miss Jones has thirteen cuts and stab
wounds on her body where he hacked
AT her with a knife and razor. She
says ne asked her for something to eat,
and when she gave it to him, he said.
Il will give you dollar" She
screamed and ran fifty feet down the
garden, where he overlook her, knocked
her down, and cut her, also crushing
her nose.
The field in which the negro was
lynched is the same spot in which the
negro Biggus was lynched in November,
1887
After watching the body swinging in
the air for a few minutes, the crowd
left it dangling there and dispersed.
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