The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1897-05-03
NEGROES LYNCH
SIX COMRADES
Horrible Triple Murder Is Followed by
Wholesale Vengeance.
BOYS AND MEN GIVEN THE ROPE
Quick Work by Angered Men To Pay
for Desperate Deed-Confessed'
and Were Then Hanged

Houston. Tex. April 3o.-For the murder
OF an old man. a child and a woman. the
assauiting OF Two girls the burning OF the
home of their victims. two of the bodies
being consumed in the flames six younS
negroes were last night hanged by an m
furlated mob OF negroes. at sunny sue
Walter county.
The list of the lynched follows:
FAYET"TE RHONE. aged 20.
WILL GATES. aged -.
LOUIS THOMAS. aged 90
AARON THOMAS. aged iS.
JIM THOMAS. eyed II.
BENNY THOMAS. aged Is.
Last fan a German from BRENNAN was
robbed OF sG5. Suspicion pointed 10 the
four Thomas boys and they confessed TO
having committed the theft. saying they
had given go of the money TO Henry Dan
iels.
Daniels spent the money and on Sunday
evening last. the four Thomas boys. ac-
cording to their confession decided to eth
er collect their so or kill Daniels.
They carried out the latter part OF tho
programme. Henry Daniels, an old negro.
lived there in a little hut with his step
daughter. Marie. ana scven-year-old
child Wednesday night tho house was
broken open. Marie Daniels and tn child
were killed ana old man Daniels dubbed
to death while trying TO project those IN
his charge.
Then OLD man Daniels and his step
daughter were thrown into the house and
the child east into the well. The house was
SGT on lire ana the negroes LEFT thinking
that thev had covered their inhumtn deed
from The sigiii OF the world. The fire had
not attracted much attention. but when
Daniels and his people aid not show up
the charred remains Of the house was
searched
Search for the Negroes.
The local officers were assisted by the
best citizens OF the neighhorhood. The
hioodhoauds from Steeles plantation were
secured and they were not long in finding
the right track.
Before night ;hcy went straight into the
place where the Thomas boys resided. and
one by one they We're secured. fayctte
Rhonc. twenty-Onc years old; VIII Gates.
thirty-fivs years old. Louis Thomas. twenty
years old. Aaron Thomas. thirteen years
old. Jim Thomas. fourteen years old. and
Benny Thomas. fifteen years old. were
placed under arrest. Tho last four ara
brothers. Later on William Williams was
captured
The hloodhounds worked splondidly; and
after the boys We're confronted with the
evidence. they confessed To committing the
crime and laid the killing 10 Louis. tho
eldest
hob Gets in It's Work.
All seven Of the prisoners We're under
guard and last night about y o'clock the
guards were overpowerad by strong body
of men and the prisoners taken toward the
Prazos bottom. NORM Of here. \ little
later forty or fifty shots We're fired and
then an was quiet. This morning. dang
ling from the limbs of a large tree. We're
fanaG the bodies OF SIX negroes limp and
lifeless.
Hundreds Of negroes from all over the
country are surging back and forth with
the tree as the center OF attraction Al
of them -<aro stan there except Williams
and he is not to ho found, but the shots
probably explain his absence.
AZ FAR as can be learned. the mob was
c.,r1rosaf Of both white and black men,
with the colorcd element largely predomi-
mating.