Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29
JIM SELLERS LYNCHED.
Recital Of the Facts Leading Or
TO the Lynching.
s>ii-r. nari~reI . vsasx white Nsa
The wara~red ws.'. Father ws.ted
the Is- - raks ~. Coarse.
The Law. Delay.

Greux1a. Mss. JAY - -Sexs reached
here late yesterday evening that Jim
Sellers. 4 uerre prisoner in the Jail a.
Pittshoro awaiting trial foe numbering
white mar. bad 6-en killed By mob
Ftssshoro - m interior town. the county
seat Of Cafhosa county. ard Is ahoat
fcrty miles frvr GRENADA There IL no
Communication save by mail. 80 your
correspondent tsleBh0as1 the nearest
available point >abog-ll. Zoe parttca-
lars Eeyoat n eoadrnasiea % the
STORY bat Iissls else coal4 Be learnsd
Sellers was eDuazei in the upper story
OF 4 t~o-s.ory Jail. bis cell being near
an opea window. Nhsa a number % men
role splass Tagrssay evening. op-a.d
IRE on hin with Wiazaessers aud shot
<rns. AMI riiIied bis 5sSsiy with bullsts.
after which the mob rode siIsatiy away.
as they came. This IL the story your
correspondent rocsive4 f-0m SIboszis.
but taers - aaosaer rsm5- czrrest that
the nil vas scrvisly catered aut the
negro shot from wishia-
Tue story Of Jin >.lIers' or ne Is fresh
in The minis o. nearly every cue in this
srcsiou- Is vas IN Jsly. 800. when the
skorSin- news 49, cent Broadcast that
y0ang Walter DIvls. bright and prou-
sag yoEth. the soa ot r Z Davis,
prOnineas planter AM merchant % 81
bougta, bal been ssabbed 70 death BY
Jlu Sellers Hal the negro been caught
AZ tho time there Is bGs litsie doubt that
lie would have been s1mms-iIy dealt
With bat Sellers male good bis ss-
cape and despite the large rewards Of
fered ard the diiirsas sez-ca kept az.
successfully resisted capture aatil Nc
vemhsr Of lass ys1r. xhea Mr. Davis.
the flasher Of tue nurisrVd boy. was
notified that Sellers nai been discovered
and c1p.arst ca plantation He1r
ts-eeuvIlIe. Miss. Mr.. DAVIS ss CAGE
proceeded 70 GreenxiIle. sAers he den
fad Sellers, paid bis ezpso- ths per-
soual reward offered and accompanied
By tspGty sheri@. ss1rtsd .ita the
prisoner 70 take hin TO the all a. Pitts
bcro4 On reaching tirs11ts. the party
coming al the vay b. team. Mr. Davis
declined 70 proceed arp further with tie
urtsore-, ~ be ,ea-et be NoGlt be una
ele 70 protect hin at.er crossing into
Calhoun county Nr- Davis expressed
bis graf a-asioa n tie capture Of the
negro and wanted him TO have . trial.
bat be knew the sentiment OF the pso-
PIE and prevailed on Sheriff Martin of
Grea1di % keep Sellers in jtIl here I'M
I'll farther orders. Sheriff Martin uu-
willingly took charge of the prisoner.
for lie expected trouble. During the az
tsrnooa = nors Of mob forming in Cal
houn county reached the sheriff. and be
wtred the governor for assistance in pro-
sectirg the mil The governor ordered
the Grenada Rides to assist the sheriff
until the prisoner could be removed 20
JarEs1a Zoe safekeeptng Accordingly
/ TIA sheriff with the militia guarded
TIE pail taas night NATL the south
/ boand train arrived. when Sellers was
hustled quickly TO the train under tho
MILITARY escort AMI without incident
OF trouble landed safely In the peuissn-
ttlry at Jackson Sellers was kept at
Jackson until shortly before the meet
- - s-' NAkIAAk EpHEE OF N1H011
/ county which was in March last. when
he was removed to the IaiI az Pittshoro
to await his trial For soue reason the
case Was not tried At the last term Of
eoart, and Sellers has remained ia AL
there all these months without being
inserfsret with Court will meet again
there in September. aud the trial would
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the time Sellers WAS A. liberty be Ia.
married and was doing fairly we'll on his
farm near Greenville. when captured
IL IS said that his wIfe's people were in
very good circumstances and that thew
bad employed good lawyers to defend
/ him