The age-herald., 1899-07-26
FOUR TURNED TRAITORS
Tried to Get Mack Safely to Sheriff,
 But Were Rolled

Pinckard, Ala. July 25.-Charley Mack was the ringleader of the band of outlaws who committed the crime at Saffold, Ga Thursday He was captured by party of four men near Iron City, Ga., Sunday at midnight and kept hid until yesterday af- ternoon, when they started with him to Bainbridge in a closed carriage to deliver the negro to the sheriff for the purpose of receiving the offered reward. turning trai- tors to the mob they were supposed to be members of. The mob claimed no reward must be paid, and that 1t was every mans duty to bring the culprits to justice The mob, hearing of the scheme of the mon, started after them.
 When night overlook the fleeing party they left the negro in dense thicket under guard of three men, the leader driving to Bainbridge with all speed for the sher1if. The mob overlook him within mile Of Bainbridge and demanded the negro. lie claimed the negro had escaped. The mob then covered him with guns. cursed him, saying he must get the negro or take hls place Six men then tied him hand and foot and compelled him to pilot them where the negro was secreted.
 In the meantime one of the three men left guarding the man In the thicket at- tempted to slip into Baiubridgs to notify the sheriff and was also caught by guards mobs had placed around the town and they forced him to reveal the whereabouts Of the negro. who at the time was in the thicket half a mile from where the mob stood.
 The traitors, after crying and begging TOT mercy. were turned loose. The mob theh' with Charley Mack. left for Saffold, where he was immediately identified by MT. and Mrs. Ogletree as being the accompiice or Lewis Sammin, who was lynched Sunday morning. Charley Mack was then taken and tied to the %ar7e tree as that of Sam min then rddled with bullets. meeting similar death to that of Sammin.
 Kid Jim, one of the negroes implicated in the Saffold crime. was said to be in the house of Sam Thompson, an old negro, three miles east of here, yesterday. and that he had aroused the sympathy of other negroes and all were armed, defynS ar rest. Kid Jim boasted:
 ''If any white trash attempted his arrest some one will turn up missing"
 A Saffold party of fifty men formed at once. arriving at Pinckard at o'clock, and after being reinforced by party from Dothan and Pinkard, proceeded at once to Thompson's house.
 After arriving at Thompson's the party, consisting of over one hundred armed white men, surrounded the house, but after strict search could find no trace of Kid Jim. Thompson and his son swear that he has not been near his place. but certain ne- groes in town claim he was seen there.
 Thompson was severely thrashed for ut terances he is claimed to have made against the whites, and if positive proof can be obtained that he made the remarks both fa ther and son will meet with a worse punishment.
 party of fifty armed men again went to the house of Sam Thompson last night for information concerning the wherea- bouts of Kid Jim. Thompson positively re- fused to disclose anything. He was se- verely beaten and threatened with worse punishment, but nothing could be gotten from him.
 The mob then continued the search, but as yet there are no further developments