The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-12-21
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aers1 aa5 rca,>ca Honic Simons, d
white ha-asr. early sunday morning
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mob 10 1900 lren-ied citizens sunday
nixAt, The Negrocs we're arrested
eariy IN The morning, and, although
R0wlands' clothing had blood stains
On Ia. the men claimed they were in
noccnt OF the crime.
A. soon rs their arrest became
known and 10 was proven beyond
doubt that they were the guilty par
ties a mob Of blOodthirsty citizens
armed with sledge hammers, ropes
and guns were running TO the Jail.
Using a telegraph pole as a batter
ing ram and caved in the side wall of
the Jail The door Of Rowlands cell
was then quickly broken in with
sledge hammers and he was dragged
from the Jail to the east side of the
court ward. where a moose was placed
about ms neck.
lie was given time TO make a state
ment. in which he implicated Jim
Henderson and another Negro. Row
land then begged piteously for mer-
cy. bnt the mob swiftly swung the
confessed murderer 20 a tree and rid
died his body with bullets.
Leaving the body Of Rowland dang
ling from the limb of the tree. the
mob rushed back to the Jail and at
tempted To burst open the cell occu-
pied by Henderson, but before the
steel bars yielded TO the blows of the
sledges some one i'm the crowd fired
upon the terrified Negro &s he
crouched in the corner of his cell. A
few moments more and the door Of
the cell was broken in. The Negro.
more dead than alive. was dragged
at a ropes end to the court house
yard and swung on the tree beside
the body of Rowland
Firing a parting volley at the
swinging bodies, the mob. eager for
another victim. hurried away to To-
cate the other Negro implicated by
Rowland in his confession. He was
found at a hotel where he was en-
ployed as porter. The Negro escaped
TO the roof of the building. and Man
ager Debruler succeeded in convinc-
ing the mob that the porter had moth
ing TO do with the crime.
The Negroes victim, Hollie Simons,
was waylaid and murdered in the
most brutal manner one square from
the main street OF the city as he was
going TO his home rom his barber
shop at 2 o'clock Sunday morning.
AS was customary with him, he car
ried the receipts OF the day at his
place of business.
Walter Evans, one of the young
men who attempted TO save Simons'
life, and afterward assisted In the re-
moval of the murdered mans remains
to his home. was greatly affected and
almost suffered nervous collapse.
Sunday night he witnessed the lynch
ing, and he lost his reason.
The dead mans wife is Frustrated.
and il is believed she will die from
the shock. Hollie Simons came from
Winslow, Ind, some years ago, and
was a popular young man.
Boonyille. Ind, Dec. 1s.-John
Rolla. the third of the colored men
implicated in the murder of@IIollie
Simons. was hanged TO tree in the
court house yard by mob of about
100 men from Rockport at $3.50 o'clock
Monday evening.
Everything was conducted as quiet
~ as though the execution had been
one under the sanction OF the lew.
Rolla was brought TO this place Mon
day afternoon about o'clock in
charge of Sheriff Anderson. of Rock
port. Upon his arrival he was placed
in cell on the second floor Of the
Jail. and his presence was known only
to a few citizens.
When the men reached his cell he
protested his innocence in loud tones,
begging pitifully now and then that
he be spared. The men working at
the door of the cell might have been
made Of marble, judged by the atten-
tion they paid to the wailing of the
Negro.
Little time was used in breaking
into the cell, and in the twinkling OF
an eye the thoroughly terrorized col
ored man was in the hands of the
men, who proceeded TO place rope
around his neck. All left, crawling
again through the hole by which they
had entered. dragging the Negro after
them.
A few minutes were consumed in
the march TO the Jail yard, the rope
was thrown over the limb OF tree,
and hundred willing hands pulled
at the rope and sent his body flying
into the air. The loose end of the
rope was tied to a tree, and as soon
as the members of the mob were sure
that their work had been completed
left in as orderly manner as they had
entered the town.
Exposition Lost Two Millions.
Paris, Dec. 1.-THE official report