The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-07-28

taken from the Jail in this city last
night and lynched near the spot where
his crime was committed. His body
! was riddlcd with bullets. Sheriff Full
CHAM defended his prisoner to the last,
but dense smoke from Z combination
IF tar, feathers ana oil fred by the
,.azed mob, was too much for him
Dangerously Shot.
William Nining, who attempted to
rush through the crowd and up the
Jail steps, was shot and dangerously
wounded.
The Fugitive Landed in Jail.
A crowd of $50 men, principally en-
ployes OF the cotton mills at Dallas, u
suburb of this city, searched the woods
all Sunday night for Clark, who was
Identified at the time he assaulted Miss
Priest by her sister. No success at
tended their efforts. and early yester-
day morning Sheriff Fulgham started
out with a posse, and before nine
o'clock had captured Clark on Beaver
Dam creek, ten miles from Huntsville.
tic was O landed in jail. and by one
o'clock the news of the prisoners cap
tt C was abroad
Sheriff. Efforts to Snve the Prisoner.
a mob was soon formed and marched
to the :ail. Sheriff Fulgham, seeing
that he had a desperate crowd to COM
bat, wired Gov. Johnston the facts in
the case. The governor responded to
the effect that he had ordered the
militia at Birmingham, Montgomery
and Decatur to proceed with all haste
to the scene.
The sheriff then t~elephoned Judge
S. II. Stewart and asked for an imme-
date Trial of the negro, and the judge
replied soon after that he had ar
ranged for a special session of court at
three o'clock yesterday afternoon, be-
fore Judge II. S. Speake.
The mob by this time had assumed
alarming proportions, and the sheriff,
thinking to quiet it, appeared at a
window and announced that a special
trial haG been arranged for the pris-
uncr for ) p. III. This was greeted with
iecrs by the crowd, and the cry Re
'enge" went up.
A Omnn's Plea for Law.
The outer door to the Jail, a wooden
barrier, was then attacked, and sooa
battered down, the mob gaining en-
trance to the first floor. Here they en-
rountered the sheriff's wife, who plead
ed with them to refrain from violence
md let the law take its course.
Reiterated to the Third Floor.
Sheriff Fulgham, however. on hear
ing the door being forced, retreated
with his prisoner to the third floor,
where he locked himself in with Clark.
The mol then stopped to devise ways
aud means of securing the prisoner
without doing him harm.
The Mob Chose Strategy.
y dozen times the sheriff, as he APP
peared at the window waving his
Lands to the mob to go away, could
have beer shot, but the lynchers
chose strategy as the most effective
way out of the difficulty. a large
fmUunt of tar, feathers and oil was
secured and piled up on the cement
floor of the Jail, and a match applied.
A suffocating smoke arose and spread
quickly throughout the Jail.
Sheriff Almost S~ufOcated.
The sheriff again retreated TO the
ccrner farthest from the burning
pile, taking his prisoner with him.
More tar and feathers were brought in
and ignited. The sheriff was seen to
disappear from the window, and when
overton broke through the crowd and
ran up the stairs through the blind
ing and suffocating smoke. Reaching
the third floor lie found Sheriff Full
CHAM in a sem~i-conscious condition.
Rescued from Certain Death.
The chief dragged the half-conscious
nan down the two flights of stairs
:nto the street. He was quickly taken
10 the city hall, and doctors sum
moned.
Mob Took Possession of Jail.
The sheriff's departure was the sig
nal for the mob to proceed with its
work, and it quickly took possession
OF the Jail. Fully IN hour vas con-
suned in breaking the lock to the cell
i'll which the negro was confined, but
as soon as this was accomplished, two
,len secured Clark and quickly APP
peLred with him on the front steps of
the Jail
Prisoner Dragged Out.
y rope was placed around his neck
and. guarded by 20 heavily-armed men, !
he was dragged out of the Jail yard.
Clinton street, jeering, the mob
led the victim, followed by fully fif- |
seen hundred people.
Clark was hustled quickly to Dallas /
and then to the home of his victim. !
Here he was taken before his victim
and positively identified. Clark col
and had to be borne on the
of his captors to Moore's
grove. where the rope around his neck
was thrown over the limb of a tree
by Miss Priests brother. The negro
w;,> rI@ced across the back of n horse
was led out from beneath him.
he body fell, and as it dangled in the
air Il hundred bullets was fired into it.
Just as the work was finished the De-
catdr militia arrived at Huntsville.
AND SON KILLED.