The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-29
Especial TO The Messenger.)

NSPONAaL ~ Inc AltSSSnSGEJ
Goldsboro, n. c., August 25-The ne
gro Tom Jones who committed the as
sault upo Mrs. J.. NJ. smith was lynch
ed in ndian Springs township at 8
o'clock this morning. This correspon-
dent arrived upon the scene of the
lynching about five o'clock in the after
noon. 1t is in a desolate spot at the
terminus of a tram railway uIon which
is hauled juniper logs to NeUse river
which is about three miles.
On driving up near the scene where
the dead negro was lying a few buggies
n horses tied here and yoader gave
evidence that a number Of people had
gathered in the same community. The
company with this correspondent aIight-
ed from the vehicle in an old pine field
and from those already on th- scene it
was learned that the corpse of the dead
negro was lying by the side OF the tram
road o 300 yards away The crowd
walked slowly until We came upon a
cluster of men who We're sitting on the
cross ties in the midst Of a juniper
swamp. On the left OF the road heal by
a STUMP lay liz liISleSS DOOy Ok a negro.
His broker and bruised fac told the
story. A glance was sufficient. There
the rapist lay cold in the embrace OF
death, while the victim of Ills unholy
passion lay in her humble home upon
the hillside not a mile distant with her
eountenance mutilated and she in the
state of expectant motherhood.
The coroner arrived in a short While
afterwards and oon after four men
bearing the ~lifeless body Of the negro
could be seen emerging from the woods.
They bore the body OH a stick under
his arms, while two men upheld the
legs.
They brought it up to me pine thicket
where the post norton was held. DR..
Thos. Hill, the coroner, summoned his
jury who rendered their verdict as fol-
w I'VE the undersigned ernpanpelI-
ed as a jury to inquire the cause of the
death of Tom Jones find that he came
to his death by u shot wound in
ficted- by parties unknown to the jury
obviously by an outraged public acting
in defense Of their homes, wives, daugh,
tiers and children. In view OF the enor.
nifty of the crime committed by SAID
Tom Jones alias Frank Hill we thinl
they would have been recreant to theil
duty as good citizens had they actet
otherwise. Signed, Jno. II. Fill, Franz
K. BroadhurSt. r. III. dwa-d R. L
Thompson, c. E. Stanley, J.. NJ Gran
HEM"
1t is learned that the negro who wa:
lynched was caught this morning about
1 o'clock near Outlaws Bridge in Dup.
lin county. He was taken in charge By
Mr.. J. NJ. Rich and brought on Mr.
Rich's buggy by himself to his home
While Mr.. Rich was in the act o.
changing horses preparing to bring tn
criminal to Goldsboro and to delive1
him to Sheriff Scott a crowd OF mel
who were disguised as negroes appeared
at his home and demanded :he negro
Upon refusal they broke open the barr
in which the negro had been placed an
took him by force and led him off in tn,
direction of the SWAMI arove men
toned. When the correspondent left tn
scene this afternoon a hole was beini
dug in the pine thicket and the bod,
of the dead negro was being placed Il
a horse trough which had been procure'
for a coffin.
Another
Raleigh, N. c., August 25.-Tom Jone
the negro fiend who outraged the persol
Of a young and pretty wife and mother
Mrs. Will Smith, near Seven Springs o.
Friday, was lynched today.
He had hid out in q poccsin. eigh
miles from Seven Springs, Wayne coun
ty, where the crime was committed
Coming out he was caught by a poss
of three, taken to Mrs. Smiths nous
and identified. He confessed his Grim
and gave up a razor he had stolen iron
his Victims husband. He w3s put in
barn to await the arrival OF the sheriff
but ten men, disguised as negroes cam
[ from the woods, and demanded hin
Officer Walker, a white man., refuse
and was shot in the neck.
The men battered down the door, pu
Jones on a tram car, run Ii into tn
woods, bound him to \ log and fired
volley Of shot into him. He was nc
: dead. but other citizens fired anothe
volley and ended his misery.
Buttons and pieces Of cloth wer
taken as souvenirs from his body HI
victim will live but is horribly disfigul
ed. Her right hand IS cut into strip
one eye gouged out, her Jaw Dor