The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-22
FOUL MURDER PREMEDITATED.
MRS. MGARRAH AND HER SON VIC
TINS OF 4 PLOT.

Hnmp HOlIis,the Murderer, n Member
of the Posse Which Ran Down
Another NegrO-A Mere Accident
DIscIOses the Real Perpetrator He
fore the Innocent Man Is Hanged.
Cool Headed Farmers Refused to
Lynch without Evldence-BIoody
Clothes and AK Found in HoIIis'
House-HiS Wife, Claiming to Have
Been Assaulted, an Accessory.
Americas. Ca, Aug. 2l.-Chief of Police
Wheeler and Deputy Sheriff Bell return
ed at o'clock this morning from Friend
ship. the scene of the double murder OF
Mrs. Mary McGarrah ana her son, James
Boone, the day before, and subsequent
lynchlng of the negro murderer Hamp
Hollis
Friendship Is n country hamlet, fourteen
miles west of Americas, and has neither
telegraph or telephone facilities, and news
of yesterdays awful tragedy comes only
by messenger.
II Is now certain that the killing OF
Mrs. McGanah and young Boone. her son
by a former marriage, was a well laid
plot in which others than Hamp Hollis
and his wife were concerned. A great deal
of evidence is at hand to show
this to be true, and 9TH
err arrests of negroes in that
locality viii follow. Hollis wife made a
confession yesterday which lead to the
finding of the bloody clothes worn by
her husband and the CORY ak with which
the inhuman murder was committed.
Confronted with this damning evidence OF
guilt Hollis confessed the killing and was
Immediately strung up to a tree and 500
bullets fired into his carcass
The confession made by Hollis wife
startled the crowd searching for the MUIR
derer. All day Hollis had been with the
posse. armed with a shot gun, and was
loud In his denunciatlon of the crime and
eager to wreak vengeance upon the MUIR
derer. Early in the morning the posse ar
rested Eugene Reese another negro,
against whom slight suspicion pointed,
and came very near lynchlng him.
Hamp Hollis was wild to hang Reese,
whom he professed TO believe was the MUIR
derer but the cool-headed farmers would
not permit this until more evidence was
secured.
However. Reese was tied with ropes and
| placed under a strong guard and Hamp
Hollis was hourlshing a gun In the face
OF the innocent negro and seeking his life
when arrested as the real murderer upon
the confession Of hts wife.
After Hollis had been lynched, Reese
was set at liberty.
ptohf he yn G amin taken In ofiatoJv
and placed In jail here pending the investi-
cation of an alleged plot in which others,
including Hollis wife. was implicated. Sew
eral negroes knew of the murder. though
It is thought Hollis alone killed Mrs Nc
Garrah and Boone as they slept.
The foul murder was adroitly planned.
and, but for the accidental finding of the
| blood-stained AK and clothes in Hollis
| house. the real murderer might have es-
| capped while Eugene Reese paid the PEN
atty with his life.
1t was Hollis who tied his own wife IN
the woods, on the night OF the murder,
| himself discovering ~ her there next
morning and then protesting to believe
that the negro Reese did 1t. This was
done to avert any suspicion from him.
self. and II appears that the negro woman
acted well her part
Their grievance against Mrs. McGarrah
and her son, and which prompted the
murder, was the theft of a piece of meat
last week. Hollis wife being the guilty
party. Enraged at being caught In this
act, II believed they planned and success
fully executed this foul murder.
The funeral Of Mrs McGarrah and
young Boone occurred this morning at
Friendship, thousands of people from this
city and the country about Friendship at
tending. The murdered people were very
highly esteemed and had wide family
connection throughout the county. The
body of Hamp Hollis, after hanging sew
eral hours was cut down yesterday after
noon.
The lynehing, while deplored. meets
with general approval on account Of tho
heinous and revolving double murder that
brought 1t about.