The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-06-18
IR|PLElLYNCH|NG At bryan
NEGROES CHARGED WITH AT
TEMPTED RAPE ARE GIVEN
SUMMARY JUSTICE.
REPORTED THAT THEY WERE ROASTED
Two RumOrs Afloat as to the Manner
of Kidding the Earth of Them-The
Mob Was Orderly and Bent on
Business.

Bryan. Tex. June 10.-(Special)-The
city is all excitement tonight as a result
of another outbreak among men who can
not stand to sit quietly by and see wo-
men, and children, for that matter, fall
into the hands of the rape fiend and then
wait for tardy justice to be meted out
to them in legal form. Last Sunday
night some men whose identity was not
known at that time, went to the house
of DR.. X. II. Wilson, who lives several
miles from this place, near Il village
named Kurten and attempted to rape his
little 12-year-old daughter. The child
was sleeping on Il bed near the window,
which was open, and the fend or fiends
attempted to smuggle her out of the win
dow and away by pouring chlorofOrm
on her. 1t happened that what they
thought was chlorofOrm was something
else, and instead of putting the child to
sleep awOke her by falling on her face.
She Immediately screamed and the vii
ain intent on carrying out his hellish
purpose. attempted to pull her bodily out
of the window. Her screams awakened
the other inhabitants of the house, how
ever. and the fiend, foiled in his purpose,
had to flee for safety. A posse at once
started out to catch the wOuld-be raper.
1t was thought that there was more than
one. and so it proved, for Tuesday two
negroes were captured and taken to Jail
to answer to the charge. One of them
was a negro named Louis Whitehead
and negro boy named George johnson
was the other. They were put in Jail for
safe keeping. but so incensed had been
hn hprhnn1 M hn
been doing nothing at all but talking
lynching.
Tonight about 10 o'clock the climax
was reached by body of armed men,
many of them with masks on their faces,
knocking at the door of the Jail and
demanding admission.
After effecting an entrance to The Jail
they took the two prisoners out and, load
ing them on their horses, took off in a
southerly direction and did not stop until
five miles had been Travelled. There
they built fires, and. after trying to force
a confession out of the two men, hung
them to a tree, though some of the crowd
were in favor of treating them TO the
same kind of roasting as was given the
Paris negro some time ago. In fact. it
was reported in town tonight that the
negroes had been roasted by slow fire.
but it is learned from some who claimed
q
distance that the negroes were hung.
The mob also took a man named Red
rick out of the Jail at the same time,
and it is reported that he shared Il SINH
lar fate to the two negroes. He is also
wanted for rape committed here some
time ago and is now under sentence to
hang.
The greatest excitement is prevailing
here and it is next to impossible to get
any reliable news about the affair, but
it is generally understood that all three
men have been hung, and now satisfied
that they have avenged the honor of
their women, it is reported that the par
Elephants in the mob have separated to
their homes.
There were something like 800 men in
the mob, which was very orderly one,
and seemed determined to transact bust
ness and nothing else.
So far as known, neither the negro boy
nor the negro man confessed to having
been guilty of the crime charged. In
fact, both denied it when arrested yester-
day morning by the posse.