Richmond planet., 1899-12-02
NOT GUILTY OF TIE CHARGE.

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NOT GUILTY OF TIE CHARGE.
God knows that I had nothing to do
with that FIRE. II / had been = dumb
brute that mob could not have been
more severe with me. have two ter
ribie cuts on my body and head. My
breast is terribly lacerated
Peculiarly pertinent and also explain
atory of the above is the fcllowing sent
81 Q editor OF The 0azette (through the
writer) by one OF cur leading attorneys
(white):
Hon II. q. Smith, editor Gazette,
Dear Sir: The brutRlity of the moD
would cause an Apache Indian 90 blush
for his species. The affair was partici-
pated in by the best citizens. God pity
3 community that has any worse beasts
in il than the members OF that mob.
TUR~EER COMMENT ON TIE OUTRAGE.
To take three persons, one the moth
er Of two living boys, one an old man
and the other q stranger In the town
from Jail at midnight when they were
In the custody of the law, strip them
naked, beat, bruise and kick them into
insensibility, cover them with roof
paint with turpeutine in it, tar and
feathers, throw them into q pond of ice
cold water, keep them there until life
Was almost gone, tied them together
ed and then get up the incidental
advertisement of sticking knives into
the breast Of the woman and pistol
shots through the arms OF the old man
then lash them through the town and
start then naked and barefoot on q
winter night 80 the county seat OF Lo-
gan county, . distances Of nine miles
then to commit highway robbery on
two inoHensive colored men they
chance to meet, fearing they might
succor the naked objects of that mob q
brutality, te follow that outrage on the
next Sunday evening by destroying the
property of their dying victims, is q
course OF conduct said TO be approved
by the best citizens of the best
eounIy in the best state in the best
country in the world.
TO AMEND THE LAW.
1t is both my hope and expectation
that when the supreme court sffi rms
the legality of your anti-mob law, you
may have the law amended making the
penalties to be inflicted upon the COM
m munities where such outrages are per-
mitted, i've times greater than at pres.
| ent. Juries, grand ard petit, are but
| impotent instruments with which to
redress such wrongs. The constitution
should never be construed so that such
criminals shall continue to increase
and flourish. Lynching, q crime pecu-
| liar TO American civilization, and RS
specting neither color, sex, age, coun-
try or God, must be put down or the
future of America TO nae sppsars to be
shrouded IN gloom.
4 PRKMEDTTATED FELONY.
Not content with their first nights
work, the mob reassembled last Satur-
dAv night and almost totally destroyed
Mr.. Jackson's livery and feed barn.
The furniture in the house OF his
daughter was carried into the street
shd smashed into splinters, so that the
whole OF it could have bsen put into a
barrel. The sufferings of the victims
as they plodded toward Bellefontaine
must have been something terri
bic, when it is remembered that the
turpetine in the paint was ss fire to
them, owing TO she bleeding deep
wounds inflicted by knives and whips.
vITRIoL UPON THE VICTIMS.
Vitriol was thrown upon them, some
of it getting into the eyes Of the aged
Mr.. Jackson. He may not live, and
Mrs. jackson is 80 i'll that she is bed
ridden. She and David Hickman were
re-arrested and are now in the Belle
| fontaine Jail. Here is another case fer
our Ohio anti-lynching law, and It is
sincerely to be hoped that this (Logan)
county as well as Champaign county
will be mulcted in So, 900 for permit
ting mob violence and lynchlng. All
honor to the father Of Ohio's anti-IyRch
ing law-the editor Of The Gazette.
Mr.. John II. Smith, died at his