The Afro-American advance. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1899-19??, 1899-07-01

cOttOn warehouse ana the man with
whom he had the alteration called
him damn niger trader. As the
man was white man and his
equal Jones was compelled to take
the insult with the best grace he
could muster. He is now anticipat.
ing trouble on account of his par
tieipation in the affair and he now
earnestly denies that he was ever
at the burning, declares he left for
home os soon as he turned Hose
over to the mob.
also spent a few hours at New
nan. / found that Mrs. Crawford
had entirely recovered. | could
make no opportunity however to
see but | understood from both
white and black that she resented
the report that Hose had assaulted
her. One colored boy l talked
with told me that Mrs. Crawford
would scratch the eyes out of any
body that would tell her that Hose
had assaulted her. | understood
also that she and her family have
not spoken to Hemphill, the man
ager of the Atlanta Constitution,
which circulated story of the out
rage.
went to see Mrs. Strickland.
She lives in little two room
shanty and she is sick almost unto
death. When the mob took her
husband from her the night they
killed him they took him from
her sick bed. She has never re-
covered from the shock and never
will. She has now almost constant
attacks from epileptic fits. Major
Thomas, the noble white man who
tried so hard to save the aged
colored preachers life, is good to
her and her children and they will
never suffer for want.
In my mention of the lyuching
of the nine men who were arrested
on charge of setting fire to some
building | stated that five were
then killed by the mob which tried
to murder them While / was in
Palmetto / tried to get some trace
Of the four who were wounded but
who were not killed. ! learned
that they were told to leave the
county under the penalty of death.
All of them had families, but they
were all compelled to go. None of
these men had anything to do with
setting fire to any building but
after the mob failed to kill them
they were released from Jail but
were told that if they did not leave
the country they would be killed.
found out also that the lynch
ing spirit is not satisfied. A colored
man named Grant Ball of Cedar
Town, Georgia, was arrested not
long ago on charge of assaulting
white woman. He was tried and
found not guilty. Just few days
before | got there one of the
woman's relatives went up to him
with shot gun in hand and de-
liberately blew his brains out. On
the 14th while was in Atlanta
colored man named Pullen was
lynched near Lebanon. The mob
took two Negroes from the Jail and
after killing one, beat the other
nearly to death and then told him
he must leave the country.
Another act of barbarism oc-
CURED while was there. This was
over in Louisiana, Edward Gray,
colored man, had been arrested on
a charge of burglary and inn
prisoned in the Jail at Reserve,
La, for many a year. He had
asked for a trial time and time
again but on one pretext or another
il was always refused him. For
the past three or four months his
health failed him rapidly and he
was about to die in Jail. Last week
he was put on trial and as there
was no evidence whatever Of his
guilt he was discharged. His wife
lived long ways out in the eoun-
try and the poor man scarcely able
to walk and almost at deaths door
started out TO get home to his wife
and family, struggling feebly along
he made most of the way home and
had gone nearly fifteen miles when
his strength failed him and he fell
unconscious by the way; meanwhile