The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-08-02
GEORGIA HORROR.
Sheriff Of Decatur Appealed to
Governor for Aid.
COMPANIES ORDERED OUT.
Mob Threatens to Dynamite Jail
to Get John Williams.
More Killings in
Georgia,
Georgia.

Gov. Candler at Atlanta, Ca. Tues
day night received the following mes
sage from Sheriff Patterson of Decstur
county at Bainbridge: Clown in the
hands Of mob. Send aid quick"
Gov. Gambler ordered the company Of
State militia stationed at Valdosta un-
der command of Capt. Littleton and
that Of Capt. Smith at Thomasville, to
proceed with all haste to Bainbridge,
Charles Mack, the second Of the
Ogletree rapists, was lynched Tuesday
morning at Safold. His crime was
committed in Early County. and eiti-
zens Of this county refused to let the
mob bring man into West Bainbrldge
since it was desired that an innocent
county should not suffer the odium Of a
lynching committed by citizens Of
another county.
Mack was, therefore, taken to Safold,
the scene Of his crime, in Early Coun-
ty. When that place was reached the
mob found the body Of Louis Sammin.
who had been lynched forty-eight
hours before, still swinging to the limb
on which it had been left. Mack was
carried before Mrs. Ogletree. She
recognized him at once, as did also her
husbrnd. Mack then made confession
to every fact except holding pistol to
Ogletree's head while Sammin commit
ted his assault. Mack was then taken
to tree near that on which hung the
body Of Sammia and strung up. As he
was pulled off the ground his body was
riddled with bullets.
Wednesday night, Oh account Of the
excited state Of the people here Sheriff
Patterson took John Williams, the ne
gro in jail at Bainbridge, and whose
life has been clamored for BY a mob for
two days, to Thcmasville for safe keep
ing. Under guard Of the two compa-
MES of militia, which arrived here
Wednesday morning, and between lines
Of jeering people the negro was taken
to the depot and put on board a Plant
line train due to arrive in Thomasville
at ! p. m. There is some talk Of the
mob going to Townsville, but this Is
not taken IN any seriousness, and it is
thought the trouble is over.
The action Of the leading citizens Of
the town late Wednesday night, in con-
fronting the mob as it marched to the
jail, saved the liase-of-FWlilliams. The
lynchlng party, with dynamite and tel
egraph poles for battering rams, was on
its way to the jail when Judge Bower
and two other gentlemen stopped the
mob and pleaded with them to let the
law take its course. Judge Bower pro-
missed a special term to try Williams
and promised speedy justice. After
some replies from members Of the mob
they finally disbsnded and the night
was passed in quiet.
Sheriff Reeves Of Pike county, Ala
bama, placed Albert Wright, one Of the
negroes accused of assaulting Mrs.
Ogletree, in jail in Atlanta Wednesday
afternoon. The sheriff stated that
when the train passed through New
man, a mob Of armed men bearded it
and demanded that the prisoner be
turned over to them. Wright had been
concealed in the baggage car, however,
before Newman was reached and after
making what they thought to be
thorough search Of the train the would
be lynchers permitted the train to pull
out, thinking the negro was not aboard
Thenegro denies his guilt, but Sheriff
Reeves states that he has been identif-
ed by Mrs. Ogletree.