The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-25
He CONFESSED HIS CRIME.
BELONGED TO \ GANG OF JAIL
BREAKERS.
A YOUNG NEGRO AIDED IN HIS CAPTURE
Two Other Negroes Found Dead are thought
10 have been ly ched as Well. An
Infurialed Mob is Chasing
Five Oilers.

cambridge, Ga. July 23.-One negro
lynched by hanging after being tortur-
ed, two found dead who were possibly
lynched. and an excited mob chasing five
other negroes is the situation regarding
the Ogletrce outrage today. There Is the
widest excitement throughout this sec
tion of the State, and it is feared by the
law-abiding citizens that others will be
put to death by those who are searching
for the negroes implicated in the assault
on Mrs. Ogletree at Saffold, Ga, Thurs
day might.
Late last night Louis Sammins, big.
yellow negro. who answered to the de-
Scription of one of the men who commit
ted the assault was captured near Brln-
son. Ga. and at midnight he was taken
to Saffold, and Mrs. Ogletree positively
identified him. He then made a full
confession, swearing that he belonged to
a band of seven other negroes who re-
Gently broke Jail ut Augusta, Ga, and
who had been in hiding in the Chatta-
hoochce river bottoms near Saffold for
several weeks.
INTENDED III KIDD.
He said that he and another of the
gang were selected to rob the Ogletree
store and divide the spoils with their
pals in the swamp. No assault on the
woman was contemplated until the two
negroes saw her. Samanins gave the
names of his companions i'll the crime
and described them.
This morning at sunrise Sammns was
taken to an oak tree near the Ogletree
house. He was chained to the tree and
parts of his body were cut off. A stout
rope was tied around his neck and he
was told that he could pray if he wanted
to before being hanged.
.sOh, Lord. have mercy OH my soul, -
was all he could say With a great shout
from POO men, 90 of them pulled away on
the long rope and up shot SanFnins'
body through the air. He kicked and
swayed for 10 minutes and them life be-
came extinct. His body was riddled with
bullets by the mob us it dispersed. The
body was left hanging to the limb today
as an object lesson to the negroes of the
community.
Sammins was captured by the assist
ance of negro. He appealed to
Thomas Lindsay. young muatto, for
help to escape and Lindsay promptly
turned the outlaw over to the posse.
UNKNOWN BODIES FOUND.
Early this morning the bodies of two
unknown negroes were found on the rail
road e1mbaniSment near cambridge. A
n4g crowd examined the bodies. 1t was
believed by some that the men had been
accidentally killed by a train. but others
H., H., ~.
mob, and their bodies placed ON the track
to be run over by a train. The heads
of both had been neatly scalped.
So divided was the opinion that the
coroner was summoned. and he empan-
ellcd a jury, which, after hours of de-
liberation. returned Il verdict that the
negroes came to their death accidentally.
The officers of the law are powerless
to check the fury of the people. The
man who was with S;llnnins has not yet
been captured. He is regarded as the
more guilty of the two. as he proposed
the assault on the woman and first com
mitted the crime. Several negroes have
been captured and taken before Mr.. and
Mrs. Ogletree. VINO have declared them
to be innocent.
TIL EIGHT THAT BROKE JAIL.
On June 6 eight negroes broke Jail in
Augusta. and, despite the fact that a re-
ward was offered for them, they were
never found until the gang turned up
near Saffold. They are Samnlns. John
Doogan, Edward Henderson, William
Eastering, Benjamin Lark, Columbus
Ray, William Campbell and another
whose name is unknown.
The victim of today's lynching declar-
ed Tat these men have been together
since their escape from JAIL