The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-19
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Lynching Of James GOires Tor Assanlt
ON Lille Jones.

Lynching ot James GOires Tor AssamIt
ON Lille Jones.
FREDERICK, Md, Nov. 1s.-The
lynching Saturday night of James
Goines, who assaulted Miss Lille
Jones at the home OF Hamilton Gels
bert, near this city, was conducted in
a determined manner. He was taken
from the Jail by a mob of 300 men and
hanged to tree in a field on the JEFF
ferson turnpike, one mile from the
city.
An erroneous report reached the
city about midnight that the woman
had died from the cuts and beating in
ficted by the negro, and this infuri-
ated the men, who had been gathering
in the streets and discussing the out
rage.
A mob was quickly organized, and,
unmasked, but armed with revolvers,
had previously broken into machine
shop in the neighborhood of the Jail
and procured sledges, erowbars and
| files. They made at once for the door
on the west wing of the jail, and be-
gan to batter upon it.
Fully twenty shots were fired from
the windows above by Sheriff A. II.
Zimmerman and his deputies, bat 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 larger door
panels gave way under the heavy
blows, and the mob burst into the cor
ridor. They quickly overcame the
slight resistance the officers on the I'M
side were able to offer, and found the
| cell in which Goines, covering and
crying, was confined.
The lock was opened, the bolt swung
back, and the trembling wretch seiz-
ed and 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.
| Comes feet and hands were then tied
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
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.
| Coins feet and hands were then tied
/ and the rope was drawn around his
neck. A man seized the other end of
il, climbed the tree and threw the cord
over a limb.
"Let him 60" was shouted, and
quick as fash he was jerfed from his
feet and hung dangling in the air six
! feet from the ground. One shot was
| fred into his body, and in few min
utes he was dead. The mob during the
process of lynching observed order; no
one was allowed to fire at him except
the one.
A member OF the mob made brief
speech, in which he said they were
/ there with the unfortunate wretch not
| in the spirit of malice, but to make an
| example OF him. and to teach his race
| that they must let the women of
| Frederick county alone.
The assault for which Goines suf-
| fered death was q cruel and distardly
| one. Miss Jones has thirteen cuts and
stab wounds on her body where he
| hacked at her with knife and razor
| She says he asked her for something to
eat, and when she gave it to him he
| said:
81 will give you dollar" She
screamed and ran fifty feet down the
garden, where he overlook her, knock
| ed her down, mad cut her, also crush
| ing her nose.
The field in which the negro was
| lynched is the same spot the negro
| Biggus was lynched on in November,
| 1887.
After watching the body swinging
| in the air few minutes, the crowd
| left it dangling there and dispersed.
Early this morning his body was
viewed by thousand or more persons
| before the authorities took charge of
| his body. His parents, who reside
| here, will bury the body tomorrow.
| Comes was about twenty-four years of
| age, and a desperate character. His
weight was about 100 pounds, and his
| face bore n hideous look Miss Jones
was employed in the family of Mr..
William Geisbert, near this city. she
| is buxom girl Of about twenty three
| years OF age. Her condition is regard
| ed as critical.