The Afro-American advance. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1899-19??, 1899-07-01
effective L. p Levin
axes a End Trip to Georgia to
Investigate the Recent Burn
Ing of Sam Hose.
tubborn Facts Obtained
kherwise Would Have Re-
NAMED Intact.


The following interesting report,
Is read before a large and enthusi-
tic audience last monday evening
81 Quinn Chapel Church, Chicago,
3 ne 10Th, 1899.
Just one week after my first re-
Is rt was read in Bethel Church
hrted upon a commission which
4 blk me to Atlanta, Georgia. Be-
re | left / made arrangements
tn Mrs. Barnett to gather what
Ter additional facts | could find in
e line of this work. / arrived in
tlanta Tuesday and making it a
pint to keep clear of the people
HON | interviewed when / was
sposing of my horse medicine, |
anaged to CLEAN a number of in
resting facts which came to me
bile | was prosecuting my duties
drummer.
In the first place / found that
be dispatches from the Bethel
II eeting had gone all over the
buth and that the report had been
wen very largely in the Atlanta
Napers; that editorial comments
ID been freely made and that
IS ERE was a feeling of apprehen-
bn on the part of the citizens of
1llanta, Newman and Palmetto
hat the colored people of Chicago
ere raising such disturbance
lat the Federal government would
Ike upthe matter. As a conse-
hence | found it very difficult to
et any person to Admit that he
Nv the burning of Sam Hose.
ny number of people told me all
bout it but they were careful to
BY that they had been told the
bets and that they were not pres
BIT when the man was burned. 1t
eems to be the settled purpose of
/ the people to deny participation
the horrible affair, so if that a
curt was to sit in Atlanta to-
borrow to investigate the burning
would be difficult to secure a
Fitness who would testify that the
Unfortunate man was burned to
eath.
| took a day off to go to Mar
shallville, the home of Samuel
Hose. That is one hundred and
Ehirty-six miles and a-half from
|he Atlanta and Central Georgia
Railroad. l went to the home of
Die heart broken mother and found
ter bent under the burden of three
core years. l was told that be-
ore the lynching of her son she
bad but few white hairs in her
bead, but now with only a few
weeks weeks from that time she is
Utmost entirely gray. saw her
BON who in my first report / said
was an imbecile. He has a mind
Enough however to know that his
brother has been killed and his
rambling talk shows that what
mind he has dwells on the awful
calamity that came to his brother.
With the mother it is even worse.
She had no infirmity of mind but
Suffered only from old age and dis
base. Now the awful death which
eame to her son has driven her to
he verge of insanity so that she
hoes about broken-hearted, crushed
-. p in spirit, her health wrecked and
Fith her mind almost gone. con.
nually mumbling her prayers and
bemoaning her son. She is now a
harge upon her colored neighbors
ind friends.
While in Marshallville | learned
hat J b. Jones, the man for
'Fhom Hose worked a few years
hgo, and who captured him and
Delivered him to the mob to be
burned and thus secured the re-
gard of 81. 800, is suffering some
fetribution for his participation in
hat dreadful affair. He has his
snemies as well as his friends and
she fact that be took Hose 10 New
pan TO secure the money has given
rs enemies chance to brand him
one OF that class always hated by
'ecent white people in the South,
dst Is a niger trader. About two
ceks ago he had q dispute IN the