The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-23
WILMINGTON, DEL, MOB
 BURNS NEGRO AT STAKE
Jail Walls Battered Down and George White, Accused of Murder and Assault, is Secured
 and Put to Death.

, and he Is said to have confessed to the assault. White was quickly chained to a post, which had been placed by an ad- vance guard. and the dry underbrush soaked with oil. was ignited.
 The horrible execution was on. White tainted and his body hung limp while the rabble laughed at his torture. Shots were fired into the body and the victim of the mob was soon dead.
 Satisfied with it's nights work, the greater number of the lynchers left the neighborhood. many of them fearing arr rest. However, a large number of per- sons loitered at the scene, awaiting de- velopments.
 The failure of the County Court to give White a speedy trial is, the jail-breakers say, in a great measure responsible for tonight's tragedy. The citizens of Will mington and those in the vicinity of the crime wanted an immediate trial. and Att torney- General H. H. Ward made the matter before the court on Thursday with that end in view. The court, how- ever, did not consider haste expedient, and the trial was set for the September term of court.
 With this decision of the court, the murmurings of mob violence became loud- CT and the indignation of the people greater. Sunday night two small crowds BdtHSTeu ncdT the JdliP put they were soon dispersed.
 coroners inquest over the body of Miss Bishop was held but the police fear ing that harm would befall the negro, did not take him from the workhouse. The inquest was held without his pres- ence. The verdict of the jury was that Miss Bishop came to her death from the effects of an assault committed upon her by one George White. a negro"
 Story of Whites Crime.
 The victim of the assault for which White was lynched was Miss Helen S.. Bishop, daughter of the Rev. E. A. Bishop, Superintendent of the Ferris 1n- dustrial School. She would have been IS years of age next October.
 She was a student of the Wilmington High School and was on her way home from the school last Monday afternoon when she was attacked. The Industrial school. where the girls parents made their home. is about three-quarters of a mile from Prices Corner, where the girl usually left the trolley car when she went home from school in Wilmington. Late Monday afternoon a farmer working in the field saw Miss Bishop stagRer and fall in the road. The farmer and his sons went to her assistance. but when they reached the girl she was lying uncon- scious in the road She had two ugly gashes in her throat. her body was badly scratched and her clothing was torn in msny places. In one hand she clutched a small pen knife. There was every jevi- dence that Miss Bishop had made a des- perate resistance in defense of her honor and her life. The wounded girl was taken home and died the next afternoon without reRaining consciousness.
 The entire community was almost in- stantly aroused and a man hunt was im- mediately begun. Suspicion was soon fastened on George G. White, a negro, just out of the workhouse. who was en- gagged as a laborer on the farm of Ed- ward Woodward. near the scene of the assault. White was found in bed that same night and when taken Into custody denied all knowledge of the crime. He was identified by several persons, who said they saw him in the vicinity of the scene of the crime. A knife, which Mrs Woodward said belonged to him, was found where the girl was assaulted. White was brought to Wilmington, but later was transferred to the county workhouse where the officials thought he would be safe from mob violence.