The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-29
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he talked very freely to them. admit
ting the crime of which he was ac-
cused He refused to talk to a white
man at all, and remained silent and
sullen to the last. seeming to notice
nothing whatever.
Journey Back to the Mills.
With the morning the journey back
TO the mills was begun. In an ordinary
farm wagon the desperately wounded
negro was conveyed to Williams sta
ton, on the Seaboard Air Line, and
the morning train, westbound from the
city. brought him and his oaptors back
to Tuten's mills.
Meantime the wires had carried the
story to every surrounding town and at
every station at which the train stop
ped armed men poured aboard, intent
on bearing a hand in the deed of ven
geance that was in store for Wise
From Pembroke and other stations
above the mills came others, and from
all the country about the mills still
others poured into the little settlement.
A mob of a hundred or more men
| took part in the scene that followed.
Wise was forced into the presence of
the woman he had wronged and she
identified him positively and absolute
ly as her assaiant.
Vengeance Grim and Dire.
That was enough. In grim silence
| the line of march down the railroad
track in the direction of Pembroke
was taken up, the negro ravisher
cowed and frightened and trembling
borne in the midst of a mob of men
as sternly determined he should die a
swift and terrible death as the recol-
lection of the wrongs the woman they
had just left had suffered had the
power to make them. And these
wrongs were not forgotten. Smarting
and furious under their influence, the
men, usually mild-mannered and soft
spoken, had become transformed into
band of avengers as fixed and I'M
changeable in their determination as
the stern DEGREES of fate.
-Four or FIVE hundred yards away a
telegraph pole offered a. convenient
method of executing their purpose. A
rope was swung over the cross bar,
the moose rapidly adjusted around the
neck of the ravisher and a hundred
willing hands pulled him from the
ground. AS his body writhed and
twisted in the contortions of death a
hundred shots rang out-and rang out
again and again. When the smoke
cleared the writings had ceased and
Wise's body swung limp from the
tautened rope, its only motion that it
had been stricken.
There was no disorder, 10 unseemly
jubilation. Swiftly and silently and
sternly the mob had done its work and
swiftly and silently 1t dispersed. The
men had made no effort to conceal
worn. A few curious ones still
fingered, but the vast ma
jority, content with the ven
geance they had taken, moved
quietly away. Only the swinging body
Of the black fiend remained to tell the
pie to those who came to see.
Several thousands of persons saw
the body swinging from its rope yes
terday. The Seaboard brought several
excursions from points along it's line
into the city and some of the trains
stopped to give their passengers a
more prolonged opportunity to absorb
all the terrors of the CHASTITY scene.
In Pooler public indignation runs
high against the Herings and they
will be lucky If they avoid a fate but
little less terrible than was that of
Wise. Certainly they will be punished,
for if they escape the swift vengeance
for harboring the ravisher the more
hot-headed would mete out TO them, it
will be but to fall into the more mer-
ciful If equally certain hands of the
law.