The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-08-10

The latest net n Mississipui rnmn Of blood and law
iessness sounds like chapter from Of Mrs Sepge
novels. The facts rs reported, are as follows;
ii Several weeks ago, one Lnn TAIiGerrOs Write, wit
1.-TWO friends went to the house Of Ed McIlea negro an
shot him to death 1t is not related that Linn TaIiaer
Twas ynched or punished arrested; o. that an
notice was taken of his act On Tuesday night July 30
Linn TaaferrO went to church. After his piOus devC
ous be returned home and there found his aged fathe
and mother horribly butchered with an AK The Gem
munity burst fame of excitement Three negroes
old and her and daughter-were seized
The daughter acknowledged that she knew who did th
murder. The few law abiding citizens of the place has
lilly convened. organized committee and after as thor
ough investigation possible, reported that the tire
negroes had nothing whatever to do with the murder,
we're not even near the place when it committed
Notwithstanding this, the mob rushed upon the Jail 9TH
sheriff apparently standing supiney by) seized the thre
helpless victims dragged them through the town, hanget
them and fired five hundred bullets into their bodies.
I, Judge Stephens and L. NJ. Southworth, two of the
most influential of the community strove and plead
ed desperately with the mob, even the report says
with their around the Decks of the ringeaders
but without avail The murder of the Helpless women
and boy on Thursday was not enough On Friday
ing the mob gathered They fully armed and
derded the idea of law and order They declared that it
their intention to kill every in the community
upon whom the slightest suspicion rested They spent
the day chasing SaIe Layton who had been discharged
by the investigating committee, because in the opinion
of that body she knew nothing whatever about the horr
bic crime. The good citizens believing that such mob
securing the country. Imperilled the life, liberty and
property Of the innocent well the guilty
PREVAILED SHERIFF TO follow the mob The
mob is determined to kill Saie Layton, her husband and
her son. before stops its bloody work The awsbdng
citizens long for the time when the mob will fit to
turn the administration of the law to the civil
authorities"
he words of the press report used because they
as significant anything that can be framed)
On Sunday the mob seized and hanged another victim
against whom there shadow of suspicion in
connection with the crime. SaIIle Layton, who was
chased ell day., escaped by miracle, at least no
report of her murder has been received The already
well known details gone because this is typical
lynchng None of the regular features lacking
We have first the codblooded and apparently causeess
murder of a negro by white The murderer as |
usual, receives punishment than if his victim
had been dog.
typical negro revenge follows brutal savage muir
der Of old persons in their bed Then the up
surgng of the moba bnd indiscriminate slaughter of
every black skinned man, woman and child that fell into
their hands, fury fol blood aoneguilty or innocent.
Thus far it is a of reprIsathe innate savagery of
untaugh animal nature coming to the surface Even the
law takes cognzance of the heat of passion Had there
doubt OF the guilt Of the victims of the mob the
might be passed with patItudes of deprecaon and a
plea that law should take It's But
The wretched negroes-three of them women be it re-
been declared innocent by a committee
If the best in the county SaIIie Layton had been
Jet free knowing nothing whatever about the CRIME
Here is the danger-here the monstrous significance
the affair 1t IS not the hideous chain of murders bad
that is 1t is the mastery of the mob spirlt-the I'M
dIed and of In Tho Al
# Judge Stephens The county will not recover from
his shock for a quarter Of a century. Youth is taught
it that law be trampled under defiant foot and an
rchy reign supreme.
The Carroll county case is only in hundreds The
,olson is at work in every county in the Gulf states
There is no law in the South which is as strong as the m
esponsibe hoodum element that invariably makes up its
nobs. There is way to teach such 1t was effec-
ualIy taught to the anarchists of the Haymarket No
epetton of that lesson has been necessary 1t must be
aught with bullets and the rope When Governor Lon
no went to Carrolton he should have taken with him
efficient force Of militia armed not with blank car
rio ges but with powder and ball. and if the sheriff of
arrol could not be prevailed upon to do his duty the
should have placed himself at the head of his
orces
1t is not too late to teach salutary lesson Judge
tephens and Mr. Souhworth know those leaders around
hose necks they threw their armi in duplication 1t
their duty to testify against these men and con-
let them II
The reply to criticism and interference In
outhern affairs by the nation has always been se us
one; the South can handle its problems best.
here and truth in this once. But when the
aesmen of 1875 undertook the task they did not con-
mpate that their work would fall into the hands of
pching mobs and their sYmpathzers becomes more
dent every day that such cannot handle their Fl
-oblems That thew cannot even govern themselves |