The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-27
THREE TO ONE TREE
WAS THE WAY OF BAKER COUNTY
LYNCHERS.
FOR MURDER OF BULLARD
Guilty NEGROES PAID WITH
THEIR LIVES.

Last saturday Night Billiard Re
ceived wounds That Proved Fatal
While Trying to Put a Stop to
Negro Trough HOuse"-His Stay
ers Were Pat in Jail at Newton,
From which "A Mob Took Them,
covering the JaiIOr with Pistols.
Bodies of the Negroes RiddIed
with Bullets.
Albany, Ga, June 26.-Baker county
vas the scene of a triple lynching
early this morning. The affair took
Mace about a mile from Newton, the
county seat, and twenty-one miles be-
low Albany.
The mob's victims were George Nc,
Kinney Garfield Mccoy and Wiley
Anette, negroes who on last Saturday
night cowardly murdered F. S. Billiard,
a respectable Baker county farmer.
Bullard had gone to the house oc.
cupied by one of the tenants on his
Mace in order to quiet free-for-ali
fight that had started among a COM
many of negroes who were engaged
in a Saturday night frolic. Billiards.
Interference was resented by McKin-
ney. Mccoy and Anette, who were
from Miller county, and they opened
fire on the white man with reVolvers,
inficting wounds from which death re-
suited on Tuesday.
Six negroes present were more or less
seriously wounded during the shooting,
and one may die.
Their Guilt Established.
Mckinney, Mccoy and Anette were
captured Monday and placed in Jail at
Newton. Their guilt was fully es-
tablished at a commitment trial on
Tuesday. There was some talk of
Hnching, but little attention was paid
TO it, there being an apparent willing
ness to allow the law to take its
course.
The three murderers were not des-
tined, however, to be legally tried and
punished 1t was just at midnight last
night that Tailor William Screws was
called from his bed by Bailiff b. e.
Tucker, who had arrested the three
murderers. The officer stated that he
had another prisoner for jail where
upon the jailor hastily dressed and pro-
ceeded to the JAIL accompanied by the
bailiff The front door of the prison
was opened and the jailor entered. In
the twinkling of an eye, it seemed, a
dozen men sprang out of the darkness
and pistols were thrust in the face of
Tailor Screws, the light of his lantern
at the same time being extinguished.
Taken by the Mob.
open the inner door," was the stern
command of a gruff voice. Jailor
Screws obeyed with alacrisy. In
minute Mckinney, Mccoy and Anette
were in the hands of the mob. James
Story, who is charged with the murder
of John Leonard, colored, about year
ago, was also confined in the Jail, but
he was not molested. In the excitement
of the mob's attack, Bailiff fuckers
prisoner made his escape.
The mob wasted no time. From the
Jail it passed out of town, going cl-
rectly west A mile beyond the town
lights it found tree that evidently
suited it's purpose. The prisoners
hands had already been tied behind
them, and nooses of hemp rope were
quickly slipped over their heads. The
three pieces of rope were thrown over
strong limb, eager hands pulled on
the free ends and the three BODIES
were drawn clear of the ground.
RiddIed With Bullets.
The swinging bodies were then rid
died with bullets. 1t is stated that
hundreds of shots were fired, the
clothing being literally shot from the
bodies
The lynching is deplored by most
of the people of Baker county. 1t was
totally unexpected, the mob having
perfected it's plans without attracting
attention. The fact that Billiard
family is left in destitute circum-
stances, his wife being a hopeless in
valid, helped to infiame public feeling
against the murderers.