The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-11-18
A MARYLAND LYNCHING.
Speedy Vengeance on a Negro Who
Assaulted a White Woman.
NONE OF THE LYNOHBRs MASKED.
The Mob Broke Through the Jail Doors
with sledges and Crowbars, and the
Guilty Wretch was Hanged with Rope
Taken from an Electric Lamp.

Uulty Wretch was Hanged with Rope
Taken from an Electric Lamp.
FREDERICK Md, Nov. 1s.-James Go
ings, who assaulted Miss Lille Jones, at
the home of Hamilton Geisbert, near this
city, Saturday night, was taken from the
Jail by mob of 300 men yesterday morn
ing and hung to tree in field on the
Jefferson turnpike, 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 discussing the
outrage.
A mob was quickly gotten together, and
unmasked, but armed with revolvers, the
men marched to the Jail. They had pre-
viously broken into machine shop in the
neighborhood of the Jail and procured
sledges, orowbars 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. H. Zimmerman and
his deputies, but the mob paid no atten-
tion 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 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
back, and the trembling wretch seized and
dragged out in his night clothes and stock
inc feet In tba rnaantir,,a tho friopdg of
the lynehers 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
recognized by number of men who knew
him, and the mob did not hesitate in its
work
Arriving 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 them, and their
request was granted. The Lords prayer
was then repeated, and the negro and
most of the crowd Joined in.
Going's 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 go" 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 few minutes he was dead. The
mob during the process of lynching OBJ
served 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.
After watching the body swing in the
air few minutes the crowd left it dang
ling there and dispersed.
The assault for which Goings suffered
death was a 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 he asked her for
something to eat and, when she gave it to
him he said; II will give you dollar -
She screamed and ran about fifty feet
down the garden, where he overlook her,
knocked her down and cut her, also crush
ing her nose.
The field in which the negro was lynched
Is the same spot the negro Biggns was
lynched on in November, 1887,