The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-03-10
NEGRO PAID AN
AWFUL PENALTY
desperate Who Shot and Fa.
tally Wounded Policeman
Lynched by Mob.
IS RIDDLED WITH BULLETS
Exciting Time at Springfield, O.-Mob
Pushed Aside Policemen and Bat
tered Down Prisons Doors and
Drag Out Murderer.

Springfield, O., March Orchard
Dixon, a negro desperado, who shot
and fatally wounded Policeman Charles
Coils Sunday morning, paid an awful
penalty for his crime. A mob battered
In the doors of the Jail at a late hour,
ragged the negro to the yard, where
ne was shot to death, then carried the
BODY to one of the principal streets of
the city, hoisted it to the crossarm of
a telegraph pole, and for half an hour
fired revolver bullets into it.
n mob forced an entrance to the
Jail by butting in the east doors with
a railroad iron.
The mob melted rapidly and it was
the general opinion that 40 more at
tenpts would be made to force an en-
trance. Small groups of men, how
ever, could be seen in the shadows Of
the court house and adjacent buildings.
Inc police were satisfied that there was
hothlnS more to fear, and they, with
other officials and newspaper men,
passed freely in and out of the Jail. A
diversion was made by a small crowd
moving from the east doors around to
the south entrance. The police fol-
lowed and an attempt was mad to
push them off the steps leading up to
the south entrance. The crowd at his
point kept growing, while yells of Hold
the police,' Smash the doors and
Lynch the niger" We're made. inter-
spersed with revolver shots. All this
time the party with the heavy railway
iron was beating at the cas- door.
which finally yielded to the battering
ram, as did the inner lattice iron
doors. The mob then surged through
the east, door, overpowcred the sheriff,
turnkey and handful of deputies, and
began the assault on the iron cage
turnstile leading to the cells. The po-
ice came from the south door to help
Keep the mob from the cells, and in
five minutes the south door had shared
the fate Of the east one.
Surging Mob Enters Jail.
In an incredibly short time the jail
was filled by a. mad mob Of $50 men,
with all entrances and gates blocked
with 5000 men, thus making it impos-
sible for the militia to have prevented
the access to the negro had it been on
1.-THE scene. The heavy iron partition
leading to the cells resisted the mob
e~ffectually until cold chisels and sledge
hammers arrived, which was only two
or three minutes later. The paddock
to the turnstile was broken, and the
mob soon filed the corridors leading to
the cells.
Seeing that further resistance was
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nocent persons, the authorities CON
sented to the demand Of the mob for
the right mar He was dragged from
his cell to the Jail door and thence
down the stone steps to a court in the
Jail yard. Fearing an attempt on the
part of the police to rescue him, the
leaders formed a hollow square. Some
one knocked the negro to the ground,
and those near to him fell back four or
five feet. Nine shots were fired into
his PROSTATE body, and satisfied that he
was done for, a dozen men grasped the
iifeless body, n with a triumphant
cheer the mob surged into Columbia
street and marched to Fountain ave-
nue., one of the principal thoroughfares
of the city. From here Trey marched
/, south to the intersection of Main street,
and a rope was tied around Dixon's
neck. Two men climbed the pole and
threw the rope over the toprnost cross
arm and drew the body about eighteen
feet above the street. They then de-
scended and their work was greeted
| With a cheer. The fusillade then be-
! gan, and for thirty minutes the body
was kept SWaying bac and forth from
the force Of the rain of bullets which
was poured into it. Frequently the
arms would fly up convulsively when
a muscle was struck, and the mob went
fairly wild with delight.
The Negroes Last Crime.
Policeman Coils went to DiXon's room.
Sunday morning at the request of the
negro. Dixon said his mistress had his
clothes in her possession and had got
the consent of Jones, the colored pro-
prietor, to keep Dixon away from his
house. Coils accompanied Dixon to the
room, and in q short time the man and
! woman engaged in a quarrel which re-
suited in Dixon shooting the woman in
the left breast just over the heart. She
T2l1 unconscious at the first shot and
| Coils jumped towards the negro to pre-
! vent his escape from the room. Dixon
then fired four bullets into Coils, the last
of which penetrated his abdomen. Dixon
then fed from the room and was followed
by the plucky officer, who emptied his
revolver at the negro without effect and
fell to the ground. Dixon went immedi-
| ately to police headquarters and gave him
self up.
Dixon had spent several terms in the
w%orkhouse, and when news of the shoot
ing spread public excitement was quickly
aroused. The discussion of the matter
continued with more yigor after the. death
Of the officer, but the police thought
nothing of it until last evening, when a
mob of boys gathered in front of the JAN.
About 300 men had co~ngregated about the
Jail yard and steps. It was known that
only a leader was wanted to start the as
sault, but no one assumed this office for
some time.
Sheriff Routzahan addressed. the moi
from the Jail steps. He told the men that
there would be a special session of the
grand jury called at once, and tfesiaw
would surely give the negro the Limit for
mis- crime. The mob paid little attention
to his words, and after apparently dis
fparsing, later reassembled In VITO bodies
and by8a strategena one engaged the ma
iority Of the police AT the south door,
while the other attacked and beat iii the
east entrance and secured the negro.
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