The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
AN OHIO MOB
Shot q Negro to Death, Then Hanged
Him and Shot Again.
NEGRO KILLED 4 POLICEMAN.
The Jail Was Storlned by
the Mob, Who Took Their
Victim Out and Shot
Him TO Death.

Sne NOD, '" no IOOk llSlr
Victim Out and Shot
Him TO Death.
Richard Dixon, negro, was shot
to death at Springfield Ohio, Monday
night BY a MOB, for the killing OF
Policeman Charles Coils, who dice
Monday from wounds received at ths
hands OF Dixon on Sunday.
Coils had gone to Di1on's room OF
the negro's request. Dixon said bis
mistress hai his clothes in her posses
sion. CJllis accompanied Dixon to the
room and in :. Short time the man anc
woman engaged in quarrel which
resulted in Dixon shooting the wo.
man, who is variously known as Anna
or Mamie &C ccbin, in the left breast
just over the heart. She fell uncon
SciouS at IL first shot and ColliS
jumped towa '6s the negro to prevent
his escape from the room. Dixor
then fred four balls into Coils, the
last Of which penetrated his abdo-
men. Dixon wen5immediately to po-
lice headquarters and gave himself
up. He was taken to Jail.
AS soon as Coils death became
known talk OF lynching the negro was
heard and Monday night crowd be-
gan to gather about the jail.
THE NEGRO SHOT TO DEATH.
At IL o'clock the negro was taken
from the jail and shot to death in the
jail yard and the body was taken from
there to the corner of Main street and
Fountain avenue and hung to tele-
graph pole where the mob spent the
next half hour riddling the body with
bullets from several hundred revol-
vers. The mob forced an entrance to
the jail by butting in the east doors
with railroad iron. At 1870 O'Clock
the mob melted rapidly and it was
the general opinion that no 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. two adjacent livery
stables and several dwelling houses.
At 1915 o'clock the police were sat-
iS6ed that there was nothing more to
fear and they, with other officials and
newspaper men, passed freely in and
out of the jail. Shortly before II
o'clock a diversion was made by
small crowd moving from the east
: doors around to the south entrance.
The police followed and a bluff was
made at jostling them off the steps
leading up to the sonth entrance.
The crowd at this point kept growing,
while yells Of hold the police"
smash the DOORS" lynch the mig
ger" were made, intersperSed with re-
volver shots.
All this time the party with the
heavy railroad iron was beating at the
east door which soon yielded u the
battering ram as did the inner lattice
iron east door, and oVerpowered the
sheriff; ;turnkev and handful Of deputies
and began the assault on the iron
turnstile leading to the cells. The
police from the south door were called
inside to keep the mob from the cells
and in FIVE minutes the south door
had shared the fate OF the east one.
MOB OF TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED.
In an incredible short tirle the jail
was filed witt mob Of 250 men with
all the entrances and yard gates
blocked by fully 1850 men, thus max
ing it impossible for the militia to
have prevented access to the negro,
had it been on the scene. The heavy
iron partition leading to the cells re-
sisted the NIB efectually until cold
chisels and Sedge hammers arrived,
which were only two or three minutes
later in arriving. The paddock to the
turnSLile was broken and the mob soon
filed the corr 1orS leading to the cells.
Seeing that fl rther resistance was use
less and to a old the killing Of inno-
cent prisoners the authorities consent
ed to the derland Of the mob for the
right man. lie was dragged from his
cell to the ia door and thence down
the stone ste IS to court in the jail
yard, Fearir g an attempt on part Of
the police te rescue him the leaders
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