The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-23
MOB WAS WORSTED
ONE KILLED AND TWO WOUNDED
by DEPUTIES.
THEY TRIED TO LYNCH NEGRO
LEADERS OF MOB ONES WHO sUF-
FERED MOST.


the Court, Convicted and Sentence
ed tn Hang Sept. 2O-Crime COM
mitted May and Criminal Cap
tured in Charleston Few. Days
AgO-Swift Justice Melted to Him.
Prisoner Carried to Birming la m
on Freight Train.
Asheville, Ala, Aug. 22.-One man
was killed and another probably fatally
wounded in battle here day to save
the negro, Jim Brown from the ven
geance of a mob after he had been
tried and sentenced to be hanged on
Sept. 20. for the most heinous crime
known in the criminal law of any
state. The killed:
Walter Blankenship.
Wounded: Arthur Blankenship; a
small boy, the son of James Hanley
slightly wounded.
The Blankenships were brothers, and
it is said have been in town since Mon
day, trying to stir up the trouble. Wal
ter died within two hours after being
shot, and Arthur is in a precarious
condition.
The attempt of the mob to gain pos
session of the negro followed one of
the swiftest and fairest trials ever
held. 1t was battle of witnesses. with
the Judge and court officials on the de-
fensive to suppress the fast rising
anger of the crowd as detail after de-
tail of the fiend's work was told by the
x.-ff g.. MI
evidence for the defense. AS the brute
said afterwards in his confession, there
was nothing the witnesses he had sum-
moned could say in his behalf.
The clash came in half an hour after
Judge Pelham had pronounced the SEN
tence. BY ruse the court room was
cleared of half of its angry occupants
The remaining half was surly and
seemed bent on mischief. At the re-
quest of Judge Pelham, ] L. Garrett,
the father of the girl outraged by
Brown, mounted a table and spoke,
counselling peace. He had hardly ad-
dressed the assembly as his friends and
neighbors before he broke down in
tears. In concluding his appeal, he
said:
IF you have any respect for my
feeling. If | can have any weight In
Your hearts. let me urge you as good
citizens to go home and obey the law,
and / VIII never cease to thank you
from the bottom of my heart"
After some difficulty the courtroom
was clared. Sheriff North thought it
dnwise to attempt to take Brown to
the Jail a few blocks away for the
crowd was rapidly increasing around
the front door of the court house.
Twenty eight deputies, armed with pis-
tolls and shotguns, were stationed in
the front, hall and at the windows of
the courtroom. The first sign of an
outbreak came when one man from
the outside with a pistol in his hand
started to mount the stairway He
was followed by two or three others.
Several shots were exchanged and the
mob leaders retreated to the outside,
when two members began firing into
the windows. Arthur Blankenship was
hit first and his brother was shot
while emptying his revolver in the di-
rection of the windows above.
A hard rain began falling. The bod
les of the wounded were removed, and
the crowd scattered about in front of
the stores across the street. The Of
ficers took advantage of this lul and
spirited the negro away in charge of
two special deputies. lie was gotten
safely aboard freight train for Bir-
mingham.
The crime for which Brown will hang
was committed on May Z, near Spring
vile, within quarter of a mile from
the house of the CARROTS. Brown left
the vicinity at once, first going to
Birmingham, then to Admission, At.
lanta and finally to Charleston, S. c.
where he was captured.