Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-07-29
A HORRIBLE LYNCHING /!
Negro is Cut to Pieces and Then
Shot to Death.

Last Saturday IA band of negroes rob
bed the house and store Of MIR. and Mrs.
Oglctrec at Saffold, Ga. and two of the
negroes outraged Mrs. Ogletrcc i'll the
presence Of her husband who was held
a prisoner and stood by powerless 10
help her beat back her aSsailants The
the awful deed and set out 10 annihilatc
the band. five of them have already
been caught and lynched
I.ouis Sammin was cut 10 pieces alive
by mob Tuesday and his body hung on
4 tree III Saifold Two other members
of the band. Johnson and Clarke, were
railroad track near here Sunday evening
and Tuesday Charles Mack was hang
ed 10 the same tree ON which Samnin
died Monday. riddlcd with bullets and
his body was cut To pieces The pieces
were distributed among the 300 or BOO
men in the mob. The fifth negro was
killed nj Leesburg. Ga, Tuesday by citi-
zcnS. while resisting arrest
The band Of eight negroes was formed
and headed by Charles Mack to Syste.
maticallv engage III robbing the houses
OF the vicinity and never to work again.
The first plan was to rob the Oglctree
store and house, which was accom-
plished. but Mack. the leader Of the
gang. chose 10 add 10 his crime by as
>aulting Mrs. Ogletree. which he did.
whih Sammin held pistol to her hus-
bands head
\ white man named Cardell late at
night caught Mack at Iron City, Ala,
and tried To carry him to Stafford in
secret. in order to secure the reward
offered
\ mob of several hundred country
people met Car,lcll and asked the where
aboutS Of his prisoner He decided To
tell them. y rope wa, quicely put about
his neck and he was allowed ten min
utes in which to give up Mack or his
life. He then told where the negro was.
While arrangement for the lynching
Were in progress telegram came from
Iron City that another member of the
band had been captured.
The mob decided To have a double
lvnching, but after waiting until nearly
daylight became tired of the delay and
took Mack to Saffold
The prisoner was then taken TO the
same tree where Sammin had met his
death and bound with chains.
All who had knives produced them
and proceeded to slowly torture the
wretch TO death. He writhcd and Strug-
glcd cursed and screamed. but no mcr-
tainted him with his crime and Clipped
of small bits of his flesh. wrapping them
III papers to carry home rs souvenirs.
Al an early stage of the proceedings
members of the mob circled around
Mack. chipping off parts of muscles of
the arms and legs, cutting away the
flesh around his ribs, hacking at his fin
fierS, bending back his arms till they
almost snapped and running their knife
points into loose folds of his flesh
The negro was quivcring, bleeding
mass of flesh. almost unrecognizable, be-
fore the mob deigned To resort to pow
der and bullets u is marvellous how
life could have remained in his mutilat-
ed. tortured frame rs long aS i; did
After they had carried this barbarity
10 IN excess. the mob performed its only
act of mercy. The chains were loosen
ed, the rope around the neck frightened,
and a the body. mere mass of ragged
but animated flesh, rose into the air the
command fire was given. and the
body was riddled with bullets.