The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1899-06-23
Hellish Deed of a Black Fiend.
He CONFESSED HIS GUILT AND WAS
EXECUTED BY ORDER OF JUDGE
LYNCH IN THE PRESENCE OF
THREE HUNDRED PEOPLE.

THREE HUNDRED PEOPLE.
Scranton was the scene Of another
lynching Wednesday morning at l:55
O'Clock, Dan Patrick, a we'll known
young negro, who was reared at Pas
cagoula, IA the victim. He had on
Monday afternoon, about $50 o'clock
criminally assaulted Miss Bessie Ire
land, an invalid and young white girl
who was alone with a younger
sister at her home, on Mark
ct street, P~ascagoula. The young
lady made a desperate resistance, but
the negro vas successful in his ef-
forts.
Miss Ireland told the DEMOCRAT
STAR reporter that Patrick asked her
for a glass OF water and that she &C.
coded to his request, and ss she was 10
the act OF handing II to him he caught
her arm and struggled with her. She
seized a knife, but was unable to use
II as she was entirely empowered, the
brute knocking her down and accom-.
plishing his hcllish deed. 4
Miss Ireland gave u description Of
her assailant, and he was captured in
Scranton near the Scranton Hotel bar
on Tuesday afternoon by Sheriff G. D.
Moore. Patrick was landed safely in
Jail, where he confessed his crime, and
said he was ready to face any punish.
ment that would be melted out to
him. All Tuesday afternoon and
night the air was full Of rumors of
lynching and knots Of twenty or thir-
ty OF the best people Of our commu-
mtg began gathering.
Sheriff Moore had received an init
nation that an attempt would be
made to take the prisoner from the
Jail by force and he made arrange
ments accordingly to foil the mob.
At l:2O o'clock Wednesday morning
freight train number 70, with En-
gineer TOrrans in charge arrived from
Mobile and Sheriff Moore hurried
Patrick from the jail to a secluded
spot in the rear of ~JolnsOn's black
smith shop and close to a point where
the freight pulled up. 1t was the
sheriG's intention to smuggle his
prisoner aboard the freight train and
take him to New Orleans ustil the
public had cooled Of.
However good his intentions, Moore
was doomed to be disappointed, tor
he had no sooner gained the hiding
place with his prisoner than several
members OF the mob, which now num-
bered some 300 or more, pounced upon
him and demanded Mai" lie turn over
the negro. Moore made a brave stand
and did all 10 his power to hold his
maa from the Infatuated crowd, but
after several shots had been flrod and
Moore shot In the leg he was COM
PEELED to give in. The negro was hur-
ricd over to Krebs avenue and under
the famous IIangman's Oak, where a
rope was placed about his neck lie was
swung up. While the body was being
swung up, the mob discharged several
vOlleys from their pistols into the
dangling form.
This is the sixth lynclling III Scran-
ton on that tree, and it ought
to te a warning to the negro race that
crimes OF the nature spoken Of will
not be tolerated in the South. Me
following Is the verdict Of the corOn
er's jury:
State OF Mississippi, !
Jackson County.
We, a jury OF inquest summoned to
view the body Of a negro man found
hanging on an oak tree near the L. &
I'm. r. r. freight depot, lind that said
body Is the body OF one Dan Patrick,
who was arrested June 20, 1899 by
Sheriff G. D. Moore on a warrant Is.
sued by chss. e. Chidsey, a justice OF
the Peaes ior said county and State,
on an afBdavit made BY G. D.. Moore,
June, 20, 1879. charging SAID Dan Pat.
rick Of committing a rape June 10,
1890, on . white woman named Bessie
Ireland and we the jury, after hearing
the testimony of b. F. Browne, Mar.
shall OF the town Of Scranton, G. d.
Moore, Sheriff Of said county and Dr.J.
A. Tabor, find that on June 20, 1899,
said Sheriff arrested said Dan Patrick
on said charge and had him incarcer.
atcd in jail, and that feeling that
there was danger in keeping said prls.
Oner 10 jail telcgraphed Gov. Nc.
Laurin for permission to remove said
prisoner to another county for safety
and to Chas. Marshall for a permit Ia
.Ecarry said prisoner on a freight train
to New Orleans, and that On the morn
Ing OF June q, 1899, at 1870 a.. m. the
said Sheriff, accompanied BY bis aids
B.F Browne and G. l.. Krcbs ore rea
moving said Dan Patrick to the L. &
N. railroad depot for the purpose Of
taxing the freight train to New Or.
leans when they we're surrounded by a
crowd Of unknown men who over
powered said Sheriff and his deputies
and said prisoner was removed by
said crowd, and that said Dan Pat
rick was, by parties unknown to this