Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-07-26
R|OT|NC IN GEORGIA,
Town Of cambridge in The
Hands Of a Mob.
GOVERNOR ASKED FOR AID.
Troops Ordered 10 PrCCsed at Once
to the Scene.
MOI AFTER NEGRO PRIsoNEh'
Inter Charged with Attempt to
Assault Two white GirIs-Another
Lyncbing for the safold Crime
Charles Mack Hanged.
MOI AFTER NEGRO PRISONER.
LATTER Charged With Attempt 10
Charles Mack Hanged.

ATLANTA. GA. July Ex-Governor
message from Sheriff Patterson. OF De-
catur county at cambridge: Town in
the hands Of mob. Send aid, quick"
Governor Gambler at once ordered the
company Of State militia stationed at
Naldosta. under the command Of Captain
Middleton. and that Of Captain Smith,
at brownsville. to proceed with all haste
TO cambridge.
GOVERNORS ORDERS RECEIVED.
SAVANNAH, GA. July Photographic
orders were received here tonight from
Governor Gambler, addressed to Captain
Middleton, Of the state militia. at VAL
! dosta, and Captain Smith, Of Thomas
vile. TO report TO Sheriff Patterson, at
cambridge, with all your available men,
at once" and to "act strictly under his
/ orders" The Governors message is man
datory It says eco at once"
! The commercial wires having closed,
| these messages were transmitted over
railroad wires from here, and arrange
ments were Immediately made for spe-
! cal cars on the Plant System 20 take the
| troops. The train will arrive at Balm
| bridge at A. NJ.
MOB THREATENING JAIL.
The troops are wanted TO protect the
| Sheriff and the jail against the attack Of
q mob that 10 after John Williams. a
negro. who is charged with attempted as
sault upon two white girls Williams en-
tered their room while they were asleep,
and had seized one Of the girls when he
was frightened away. large crowd OF
country people are in town. and swear
they will have Williams If they have TO
dynamite the jeil. The Decatur jail is one
Of the strongest i'm the State. Should an
attack upon it be made before the arrival
Of the troops, there would probably be
bl0o6ghed.
SECOND SAFFOTD LYNCHING.
BAINBRIDGE. GA, July 25.-Charles
Mack, the second of the Ogletree crimi-
nails. was lynched this morning at SAT-
! fold. His crime was committed in Early
| county, and citizens of this decatur
county refused to let the mob bring the
| man into West cambridge. since it was
| desired that an innocent county should
/ not suiter the oulNln OF "a iFHbHiu6 'Ohi-
| mitted by citizens of another county.
! Mack was therefore taken to Saffold,
the scene of his crime. in Early county.
| When that place was reached the mob
found the body of Louis Sammin, who
| had been Iynched foFty-elght hours be-
| fore. stiH swinging 10 the limb on which
| II had been left Mack was carried be-
! fore Mrs. Ogletree. She recognized him
| at once. as did also her husband. Mack
! then made a confession TO every fact eX-
! cept holding pistol TO Ogletree's head
! while Sammin committed his assault.
| Mack was then taken 10 n tree near that
on which hung the body OF Sammin and
strung up. AS he was pulled off the
ground his body was riddled with bullets.
REPORTED LYNCHING DENIED.
The story that two negroes were lynch
ed and scalped in the lower part of the
| county day before yesterday is denied by
| the Sheriff
ANOTHER SAFFOLD CRIMINAL
CAUGHT.
ATLANTA. GA. July 25.-Will Wright,
| a negro identified by j. +. Ogletree as one
Of his wife's assailants, was arrested yes
/ terday at Troy, Ala. and brought 10
| Montgomery for safe-keeping As a fur
| Their safeguard Governor Gambler tonight
/ ordered tnat the prisoner DC Dioubhi ~
/ Atlanta on the train leaving Montgomery
at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning.
UNKNOWN NEGRO KILLED.
ATLANTA. GA, July Pa special 70
! the Constitution from Leesburg, Ga,
| says: An unknown negro was shot and
! killed in a remote part OF this county
yesterday by a posse composed Of three
men, There were two negroes In hiding
| I'm that vicinity, and they were thought
/ TO be members Of the cambridge gang.
| G.. A. Mcdonald, who discovered the ne
| groes. came to town and reported the
matter. Both the Sheriff and his deputy
being out of town, Mr.. Mcdonald was
| advised TO get up posse and arrest the
! negroes This he did, getting W. +. Smith
! and w. II. Sanders to accompany him on
his mission When the negroes were ap-
preached they showed fight and one Of
| them was killed, the others getting away.
! The Coroner's jury returned verdict
that the dead man was killed b shots
fired by the three men named in self