The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-18
 HE CROUCHE IN TERROR.
Salvation Army Lassie Prayed for a Negro
 Who Was to be Lynched.

Frederick, Md, Nov. 17.-James Go
 ings, a young negro begged food at
 the residence of Hamilton Geisbort, near this city, yesterday afternoon.
 After eating voraciously he assaulted
 Miss Lily Jones, a servant, who he
 discovered, was alone in the house.
 In overcoming the girls resistance the negro broke her nose and cut her with
 a razor. He was arrested and held for taken from the jail by a mob and hang ed to a tree
 After the assault upon her Miss Jones escaped from the house screaming for 1 help. MT GeiSbort was close at hand and as he appeared the negro fled When MT. Geisbort reached Miss Jones
 she was lying in the yard unconscious with her face badly bruised and cut. l Half dozen neighbors were quickly
 on the trail of the negro fiend. They l caught him in this city and Sheriff Zimmerman took him to the jail, a stone structure, which would, 1t was thought, withstand the attacks of a mob.
 | Threats of lynching were heard dur | ing the evening as the assault became known. Crowds began to congregate and consult on street corners, many of the men coming in from the country.
 A report reached the city at II o'clock 1 that the woman had died from the treatment inflicted by the negro and
 this infuriated the men. There was
 neither noise nor shouting, but quiet,
 determination to avenge the poor do-
 mestic was seen in the faces of the
 sturdy farmers.
 Shortly before midnight a commit tee of half a dozen went to the jail
 door and demanded the keys of the sheriff. Sheriff Zimmerman refused to
 give them up. There was another con-
 sultation and the word was passed
 among the crowd of 300 persons and the
 whole body moved toward the prison. As the leaders reached the stout
 side door Sheriff Zimmerman raised a window and fired his re- | volver, but no one was hurt. He also rang the jail bell for assist ance, but none came. In an instant the 1 Jail door gave way before the infuriated | citizens. A moment la ter a dozen stall wart men were hammering at the door of Goings' cell. While the negro crouch | ed in a corner piteously begging for mercy the bars of his cell door were
 wrenched from their fastenings. Then
 he was dragged out of the jail while
 cries of lynch him. and rope" filled the air.
 | Some one climbed an electric light | pole and tore off rope which SUD- | ported a lamp. A moose was thrown over Goings' head and he was hustled out of the(town into an open field As | the rope was thrown a Salvation lassie, who had kept by the side of the doomed
 man, asked permission to pray for him. Stern faced men paused while the negro with the rope about his neck crouched down by the tree. Beside him knelt the little woman and tears dimmed the eyes of many as she offered up a last petition for the condemned man. After a short prayer the woman. arose and disappeared in the darkness. A mo- ment more and Goings was suspended in mid-air. A single shot was fired.
 Some one, mercifully inclined, sent a bullet into Goings' body. It pierced his heart and ended his agony
 A member of the party made a speech, in which he said the wretch had been
 brought there, not in malice, but to make an example of him and to teach
 his race that they must let the women of Frederick county alone.