The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-22
UNHAPPY SOUTH.
Negro Assaulters Of White
Women Swarming There.
The Daily Tale of Horrors Told
Again Today.
Black Outrager Taken From a
Train at Griffin, Ca,
AND HUNG BY A MOB.
Negro Hung Near New Iberia, La.
Assaulted a Widow.
Another Negro Whipped and
Driven Out of Town,
AT FLORENCE, ALA.
AND HUNG BY A MOB.
Negro Hung Near New Iberia, La.
Assaulted a Widow.
Another Negro Whipped and
Driven Out of Town,
AT FLORENCE, ALA. |
Jim Speaks, Another Black As
saulter, is Lynched.

Atlanta, Ca, July 22.-Oscar Williams
the negro who committed an assault on
the daughter of a Henry county farm
er last week, and was transferred to the
Macon jail for safe keeping, was ta-
ken from the Central railway train on
which he was being brought to Atlanta,
at Griffin, this morning, and lynched.
Williams was pursued through four
counties by hundreds of armed and in
furiated men Immediately after the
commission OF his crime, but managed
to escape. He was finally captured by
farmer at Barnesville and hurried off
to Macon, where it was thought he
would be safe.
Excitement in the case was supposed
to have subsided until last night, when
rumors reached Macon that an effort
would be made by (, mob from the
neighborhood of the crime to take the
negro out of Jail, and the police reserve
and the militia were called out to pro-
tect him.
To make sure of his safety, however,
the officials decided to remove the pris-
oner to Atlanta. They started with
him on the Central train, leaving Macon
at APO o'clock.
AT Griffin, 40 miles from Atlanta near
the scene of Williams crime, a mob
boarded the train, took the negro from
principal business streets of the town to
point 200 yards outside the corporate
limits, where they hung him to a small
oak tree
tempt at Disgusting themselves, and
their names are known in Griffin. Sew
eral of the men were heard to declare
that if they had Mayor Hugeley of
Barnesville, who saved Williams from
being lynched when first captured by
calling out the militia, they would hang
him by the negro's side. Williams con-
fessed to his captors before they swung
him up.
The sudden revival of mob violence
against Williams is believed by many
to be directly traceable to the excite
ment following upon the sensational
lynching of DR.. Ryder in Talbot county,
Monday night.
New Iberia, La, July 22.-About 7:30
this morning at Baldwin, in ST. Mary's
parish d negro. Jack Davis, alias Bud
dy Jack, was hung by the aroused cit
liens of the town for criminally assault
ing widow Marriott, who had been, dur
ing the early hours of the morning, at
the house of DR.. P;eercOt, living near
Scranton. The fiend waylaid the lady
and brutally struggled with her, but
her screams aroused Micah Peck, who
chased the negro to the store of Beed-
er & Delhay, where, upon being recog-
niZed, he was seized, rushed to the bay
Ou bank at the edge of town and with
no ceremony, hung. He implicated an
OlHST negro WINS 1S"eA' "iO' aLteA
being severely whipped, was ordered to
leave the town.
Florence, Ala, July 22.-Jim Speaks,
the negro who caused the trouble at
Riverton, is probably swinging from a
convenient limb between RivertOn and
Cherokee. Speaks was captured near
Riverton and officers started for Tus-
cumba with him. An armed company
started after the officers, swearing they
would hang the negro before he could
be taken five miles. They undoubtedly
carried out their threats. 1t develops
that the negro accomplished his pur-
pose and that his victim is so years of
age She is said to be badly injured
Riverton is intensely excited and rein
forcements are going into the town from
aveTV direction.