The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-12-14
WORK OF ANGRY MOB.
Negro, Charged With Assault, Is
Swung From a Trestle.
BODY IS PULVERlzED WITH BULLETS
mra. white. Viotim Of Ravishors was
beaten late Insaasibility aud Len
n Dying Condiiion.

As q result Of the fearful assaults on
Mrs. Joe White a. Early, Ca, Thurs
day afternoon afternoon Bud Rufus,
eolored, Vss lynehsd Friday night be-
tween II ahd 70 O'Clock By q dsisrm-
insd baud u men.
The negro WAS swung from 3 high
treBtle about half = mile from Early
on the Rome and Decatur railroad.
The rope vas tied around his neck and
he was asked II he had anything to
say. Rufus replied:
Nothing, 'ospt to tell you gentle.
men goodby, and to ask that you tell
my folks farewell.
he made no reference to the crime
and said nothing as 10 his guilt or in
nocence.
Rufus was then showed from the
bridge, but the rope proved too weak
and broke, the body plunging into the
rayine below. The crowd then began
firing upon the PROSTATE body. One
shot struck Rufus squarely in the CEN
ter Of the forehead and plowed its way
through his brain. His chest was al
most in a pulp and one hand hung by
a tendon. There is no way of telling
how many shots we're fired, but Rufus
body was struck fully a hundred
times
The remains were carried up the
embankment and laid near the railroad
track. On his breast was a placard
bearing this notice:
"Phis is warning to both black
and white not to meddle on you
will suffer the same fate.
"WH ARE The PEOPLE"
Friday morning the body was viewed
by hundreds of curious people who
travelled scores of miles in buggies,
wagons, horseback and walking to wit
ness the grewsome sight.
The full and awful details of the as
sOuIt on Mrs. White are as follows:
Mrs. White was picking cotton near
home Thursday afternoon when the
assault was made. The miscreant evil
IDENTIFY slipped up behind her and
dealt a fearful blow over the head
with the limb of tree as large as q
mans leg.
He then dragged her unconscious
form to the river bank and seized an
other large stick and beat the woman
about the head and body until he
thought life extinct. Mrs. White was
then flung into a canebreak on the
river bank, The stick he tried to
throw into the water, but it was found
next day in some vines. 1t was clot-
ted with blood.
When Mrs. White failed to return
at dusk the search began. 1t was over
an hour before she was found, and
then by a low gurgling groan coming
from the canes.
Her skull was crushed in, iawbones
broken and face and head cut and
beaten almost beyond recognition. She
never gained full consciousness, but lay
in stupor.
Bud Rufus, who was suspected oil
perpetrating the crime was arrested on
the place Of Mr. Appleton, neal
Early, and carried before the dy.
ing woman. She could not speak, but
when asked if the negro was her assail
ant, nodded her head. The negro wa,
then given a hearing before Squire
Early and remanded to jail
The officers hoped to get him int
Rome, twelve miles distant, on a loca
freight train which passed that poin
at 6:25 o'clock, but an armed Gordon
of men stood grimly about the trail
and the effort was abandoned.
Bailiff Poole then carried the pris
oner to an old out of the way house
thinking to thus throw the crowd Of
the track and spirit the negro to som
Jail.
4 The hope was futile, for about
4 o'clock the lynchers broke into tn
o house and overpowered the bailif
Rufus was carried to the trestle an
, met death as described.
johannesburg Is Fenced In.