The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-24
HUNG, SHOT AND SCALPED.
n.pRtRIE VENGEANCE WROUGHT
rPON NEGRO RAPIsTs.


confessed the Crime and Gave
Amy seven COmpaniOns-He Was
r,.o, HING, RiddIed With Bullets
.,d Cut to Pieces-MOb Shot and
soalncd Two More Who Resisted.
eool,s were Taken to SafOld-A
urpdrpd Men, Armed and Deter
,t,ed. Are in Pursuit With Blood
bonndS of the Remaining Five
NJ, snmmin ImpIicated-RepO
or Two More shot Near Bainbridge.
p,.rbrtiee. Ca, July 23.-Since the das-
.or5-v crime committed at Saffold in
r,rry county, on last Thursday night, an
,,colnt of which appeared in the Morn
iog News. hunting parties have been out
in search Of the guilty negroes.
Yesterday morning strange negro came
into the urpentne quarters of Hodges &
Powell and went to the house of an old
negro. The stranger asked to be harbor-
81 claiming that he had killed a man, had
T., swim a river and had lost his clothes.
He was allowed 20 so into the house, when
the Old negro who knew of the Saffold
affair. went to Brinson, a village three
miles distant and gave notice. A party
was made up, went back to Hodges &
PoUers ana captured the man, Louis
sammin. who was secreted in a loft.
This morning at o'clock he was taken
to safold, and was at once identified by
Mr. and Mrs. Ogleree, after which he
confessed the crime. He said that he was
one Of a gang of eight who came from Au-
gusta, Ga, and that two of the gang had
gone down to Sharpe & brakes turpentine
still, which is in the forks of Flint river.
Lynching of the Men.
While a part of the mob pursued the two
negroes down the river, the others made
ready to dispatch Sammin. They secured
several barrels of rosin and were about to
burn him alive, but finally decided to
him, his body was riddled with bullets
and then cut to pieces.
The other TWO negroes were tracked to
Sharpe < brakes, about ten miles from
slfold. When the posse tried to ar
rest them they drew their pistols
ana 0tlIeu It. ne negroes
were shot and then scalped a party tax
ing their scalps to Saffold this evening.
There are stin five of the Sammin gang
at large, but 100 determined men with
blood-hoyu-1s- are after them, and If
caught they viii doubtless be dispatched
in the same manner.
The territory where the crime was COM
miued Thursday night is in The turpentine
district, which is infested with negroes
Of the worst possible character-convicts
thieves and gamblers. The whites are
wrought up 10 high pitch, and are de-
termaed 10 show the men no mercy.
Two Dead on the Road.
Hainbrdgo, Ga, July 2G.-At noon to-day
Sheriff Patterson was notified that two
negroes had been found dead three miles
hom the city on the Alabama Midland
Railroad. Tine sheriff at once informed
Judge Kerr acting coroner who sum
mohed coroner's jury and went TO the
scene.
"hen Tie negro lynched at Saffold con-
Ie'sed he told that seven others were i'm
pHcated in the affair, and it looks very
Muah as if the TWO found dead on the rail-
road were two Of the gang, and after hav-
ing had justice meted out to them, they
were lett On the track and the train from
montgomery knocked them down the en-
oanhm-nL The coroner's jury adjourned
"'e this morning without rendering a YER
dci
Ihe negro lynched at Saffoli claims that
ue entire gang were from Augusta, Ga.
N'' John e. Donaldson of DonalsonvlHe,
VINO works convic.s at his turpentine
pace claims TO have liberated eight con-
'N's 20 The early part of the week, all of
""en purported to have come from Au-
s0''a' which corroborates The negro's dy-
ing statements.
Nay he Augusta Escapes.
augusta july 2S.-While no positive in
FORMATION has been secured, it is thought
'Aat the negroes mentioned in dis
es p.,CNe5 from cambridge are those who
~ Hom the county jail here on June
s,"sy nad all been convicted at the
piI0r Court term, and were awaiting
uanS ortauon to their various places of
1~'S''Heat, when, by aid of a nail. spoon
eso,'- ana piece of wood, they dislodged
'AroueA the wan
son were next heard of at Lulaville.
fer,e,s5' seven mi ,es west of Augusta. Some
~ resi- ents of that place wired to
e'' mat thy weSe terrorized by the
ma l,u eonvicts. The sheriff faxed to
rl0,rd proofs Of Identity, but offered a