Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-24
LOUIS SAMMINS LYNCHED
He Confessed to Completely in the 0gletree
Outrage.
Went With Another to the Ogletrce
Store to ROb-TwO Negroes
Found Dead.

A special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun
from cambridge, Ga, last night says: One
negro lynched by hanging after being to-
tured, two found dead, who were possibly
lynched, and an excited mob chasing five
other negroes is the situation regarding
the Ogletree outrage today. There is the
widest excitement throughout this sec
ton of the state and it is feared by the
law-abiding citizens that others will be put
to death by those who are searching for
the negroes implicated in the assault of
Mrs. Ogletree at Saffold, Ga, Thursday
night.
Late last night Louis Sammins, a big,
yellow negro, who answered to the descrip-
ton of one of the men who committed the
assault, was captured near Brinson, Ga,
and at midnight he was taken to Saffold,
and Mrs Ogletree positively identified him.
He then made a full confession, swearing
negroes, who recently broke Jail at Au-
gusta, Ga, and who had been in hiding
in the Chattahoochee river bottoms near
Saffoid for several weeks.
Intended to Rob.
He said that he and another of the gang
were selected to rob the Ogletree store and
divide the spoils with their pals in the
swamp. No assault on the woman was
contemplated until the two negroes saw
her. Sammins gave the names of his COM
panious in the crime and described them.
This morning at sunrise Sammins was TAX
en- to a oak tree near the Ogletree house.
He was chained to the tree and parts of
his body Were cut off. A stout rope was
tied around his neck and he was told that
hanged.
'Oh, Lordy, have mercy on my SOUL"
was all he could say. With a great shout
from 200 men, fifty of them pulled away on
hn iproy
through the air. He kicked and swayed
for ten minutes and then life became ex-
tlnct. His body was ridded with bullets
by the mob as 1t dispersed. The body was
lett hanging to the limb today as an OBJ
5ect lesson to the negroes of the community.
Sammins was captured by the assistance
OF a negro He appealed to Thomas Lind
say, young mulatto, for help to escape
and Lindsay promptly turned the outlaw
over to the posse.
Unknown Bodies Found.
Early this morning the bodies of two I'M
known negroes were found on the railroad
embankment near cambridge. A big crowd
examined the bodies. 1t was believed by
some that the men had been accidentally
killed by train but others asserted that
they had been hanged by a mob, and their
bodies placed on the track, to be run over
by train. The heads of both had been
neatly scalDed.
oO ulNlutu WdS the opinion lUdC the COTO-
ner was summoned, and he impaneled a
jury. which, after hours of elaboration,
returned a verdict that the negroes came
to their death accidentally.
The officers of the law are powerless to
check the fury of the people. The man
who was with Samrnins has not yet been
captured. He is regarded as the more
guilty of the two, as he proposed the as
sauit the woman and first committed
the crime. Several negroes have been cap
tured and taken before Mr.. and Mrs. Oge-
tree, who have declared them to be inno-
cent.
The Eight That Broke Jail.
On June eight negroes broke Jail in
Augusta, and. despite the fact that a re-
ward was offered for them, they were
never found until the gang turned up near
Saffold. They Sammns, John Doogan,
Edward Henderson, William Eastering
Benjamin Lark, Columbus Ray, William
Campbell and another whose name is I'M
known