The evening times., 1896-07-13
INQUEST WILL Be RESUMED
Randolph's Lynchers Not Like
ly 10 Be Punished.
EXPECT VERDICT TODAY
Meeting of the Coroner's Jury This
Afternoon VIII Undoubtedly Be
the Last One HeId--Summervilie
B-nne Can Shed No Light on the
Affair.
lsnecial to The Times.l


Rockville, Md, July 13.-Aprop os of
the thip meeting al .ne coroncr's Jury TO
investigate the Iyncting of Sidney Ram
dolph Lere ills afternoon there is but iittle
comment today 1t cannot be denied that
the excitement lEat ian SO high ior days
has abated and people have turned the cur
rent of their -cenvGrsauon into discusslofS
OF the political situation and OTHER more
commonplace and prosy subjects than mob
law.
mere $ Common expression CT opin-
ion among those who do talk of the hat
Ter that there viii be no more meetings
after the one called for $50 o'clock this
afternoon. The jurors show in actions, II
not in words, that they will try and make
this the last, while some of them go SO
lar As TO declare that the matter must be
wouad up. Unless, therefore, some TIL
looked-fo OF surprising development oc-
ours a verdict will be rendered.
Acting Coroner Jones has summoned
few new witnesses. Summerville Beane,
The man who is supposed to be the all
important witness, will not be here, it
is announced. Heis in Washington, though
his exact location has not been learned.
Beane has consented to make an affi-
davit, however, it is said, and it is thought
this will be here in time to read before
today's session of the inquest. In this
affidavit lie will deny all personal knowl
edge of the lynching, and claim that lie
can give no more than hearsay testimony.
This fact alone is one of the strongest
arguments that tie sessions of the jury are
.dra wing TO IL finish. No important wit
II i,
learned, have been summoned. Mrs. Bux
ton and Miss Maud VIII doubtless not ap-
pear. and 1T is generally beiiveed that
neither could shed any light upon the mys
tery OF the lynchiDg.
NOT YET OUT OF DANGER.
1t was stated in these dispatches some
days ago that Miss Maud was going back to
Garfield Hospital to remain an indefinite
length Of ltirne. Her physicians counseled
II and such was the original intention. TIE
young lady protested against remaining
away from. her relatives. however, and it
has been decided to allow her Ia make a
trip to the hospital every other 81
She is fast regaining her speech and is
now perfectly rational in mind. She Is
no means out of danger, the ply sician
sag. DR.. Ford Thompson found 1t neces-
sary to remove ARCHER small piece Of her
fractured skull one day last week and
since then she has teen improving slightly
The injuries are Of such serious Iature
that the chances for and against recovery
are low little more Than equal.
Mr.. Lloyd consumes several hundred
words in explaining his reasons for benev-
ing in the guilt Of Randolph, and in stating
the material facts in the case. The chief
motive of the fiend, said Mr.. Lloyd, was
rape.
The detectives and newspapers of WASH
ingtou are rather vehemently attacked by
both writers, and each accuses them of be-
ing in n large measure responsible for
| the negro's death through the hands of
iySchers.
In Tue latest issue of a local weekly
| Rev. L. L. Lloyd and DR.. Charles II.
Waters, both OF Gaithersburg, appear in
what they are pleased TO style reviews
of the whole awful affair. While both
gentlemen greatly deplore the lynching,
each is convinced of the guilt of Randolph.
Said Mr.. Lloyd:
From the beginning OF this sad history
| until the present. for some reason or other.
! the newspapers OF Washington have misrep-
resented the facts of the case and the atti-
tude and feelings Of the citizens OF Gath
ersburg.
| FIXING THE RESPONSIBILITY
! Thus, believing there is of necessity a
| correlated belief, namely, that whoever
/ may ha We been the immediate actors III the
| lynchin;s of Randolph, and God knows that
| / do not know who they We're. nor do
! know any one of them. the detectives OF
! Washington city, the colored people who
raised the race question, and tile newspa-
| pers which created and fostered the condi-
| tions which led to the commission Of that
| foul deed are, in the sight OF God what
| ever may be the dictum of human law, re-
! sponsible therefor"
! when charges falsely, cruelty, made
| against the man whose whole family is
| destroyed" said rD. waters, "when senti-
ment stimulated by falsehood had arisen
| threatening to Iiberate the destroyer of a
family, when every appeal from Gathers
burg for help for the Buxtons and justice
to our citizens has been ignored by the
very sensational press of Wash inston
| city; when in addition to all this the
| crime in a blackened form is portrayed,
then a body OF men. unla wfully, injudicious.
L. hanged the criminal-and in the great