The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-07-28
SAMMIN GANG
DOOMED
The Pursuing Posses Continue
Work Of determination.
LIST OF VICTIMS REACHES FIVE.
Additional Particulars of Lynch
ing Of Sammin-Great Exc
element Prevails.
LIST OF VICTIMS REACHES FIVE.

z A state Of terror reigns in Decatur
and Early counties, Georgia, as the
Sresult Of the outrage upon the Ogle-
trees at Stafford; the lynching Of some
bof the perpetrators and the exciting
chase Of others Of the gang.
The officers of the law are power
less to check the fury of the people,
even If they were so disposed, as the
feeling that the criminals have COM
mitted diabolical crime and are de-
serving of no sympathy, is general.
Five members Of the gang so far
have been made way with, while an
exciting chase is yet going on for the
associates Of those who have been dis
posed Of
1t is said that no mistakes have
been made by those who have taken
the law in their own hands for in
each instance it was known beyond
all doubt that the victim of the mob
was guilty of the crime for which he
was executed
One Of the captives was Charles
Mack, the companion of Sammin. It
was Sammin and Mack who outraged
Mrs. Ogletree III the presence'of her
husband at Saffold one holding pis-
tol at the head of the husband to pre-
vent his interference
Mack was captured at Iron City by
!. a white man named Cardell. Cardell
tried to get his prisoner through to
jail, hence secreted him. A mob of
several hundred country people met
Cardell and asked the whereabouts of
his prisoner. He declined to say. A
rope was quickly put about his neck
and he was given ten minutes in
which to give up the rapist or his life.
He then told where the negro was. In
a short while the crowd had Mack,
who confessed, corroborating Sam
MINIS statement. The men, he said,
were banded together for murder, rob-
berry and rape.
Sammin's Execution Dramatic.
The scene presented at the execu-
tion of Sammin was dramatic one.
Sammin had been completely identi-
fed by both Ogletree and Mrs. Ogle-
tree and had not opened his mouth in
denial of the charges. He was being
led to place of execution and those
about him were discussing how they
would put him to death. Suddenly
Sammin turned to one of his captors
and asked to be allowed to have
word. He was given permission to
talk, and then in an of-hand way he
told how he and his comrades had en-
tered the store, robbed OgIetree, made
him lead the way to Mrs. Ogletree
and how one had held the gun against
Ogletree's breast while his wife was at
the mercy Of his associate.
Sammin begged for his life, promis-
ing to take the authorities to where he
could find six other members of the
gang.
The mob, numbering some two hun
dred men, were too highly incensed,
and nothing but justice on the spot
would quench their thirst for revenge.
They at once chained him to a tree
and after mutilating parts of his body
he was riddled with bullets.
Two Dead Near cambridge.
Early Sunday morning the bodies of
two unknown negroes were found on
the Plant System railroad embank-
ment near cambridge. A big crowd
congregated at the place and examined
the bodies. 1t was believed by some
that the men had been accidentally
killed by train, but others asserted
that the negroes had been hanged by
mob and their bodies placed on the
track to be run over by a train to make
it appear that that was the means of
their death.
So divided was the opinion that the
coroner was summoned, and he en-
panneled a jury which, after several
hours of deliberation, returned a YER
dict that the negroes came to their
death accidentally