The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-03-09
AN OHIO MOB
Shot Negro to Death, Then Hanged
Him and Shot Again.
NEGRO KILLED A policeman.

The Jail Was Stormed by
the Mob, Who Took Their
Victim Out and Shot /
Him to Death.
Richard Dixon, a negro, was shot
to death at Springfield Ohio, Monday
night by a mob, for the killing Of
Policeman Charles Colis, who died
Monday from wounds received at the
handsof Dixon on Sunday.
Coils had gone to Dixon's room on
the negro'S request. Dixon said his
mistress had his clothes in her posses
sion. CJllis accompanied Dixon to the
room and in a short time the man and
woman engaged in a quarrel which
resulted in Dixon shooting the Wo-
man, who is variously known as Anna
or Mamie Corbin, in the left breast,
just over the heart. She fell uncon-
scious at the first shot and Collis
jumped towards the negro to prevent
his escape from the room. Dixon
then fired four balls into Coils, the
last Of which penetrated his abdo-
men. Dixon went Immediately to po-
lice headquarters and gave himself
up. He was taken to jail.
As soon as Collis' death became
known talk Of lynching the negro was
heard and Monday night crowd be:
ian 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-
yers. The mob forced an entrance to
the jail by butting in the east doors
with a railroad iron. At 10.3O o'clock
the mob melted rapidly and III 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 1O.45 o'clock tbe police were sat-
isded that there was nothing mor5 10
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 a
small crowd moving from the east
doors around to the south entrance.
The police followed and 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 to the
battering ram as did the inner lattice
iron east door, and overpowered the
sheriff, turnkey aud handful of deputies
and began the assault on the iron
tlrnstile 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 time Che jail
wastilled with moo of 250 men with
all the entrances and yard gates
blocked by fully $500 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 mob etfectually until cold
chisels and sledge hammers arrived,
which were only twp or three minutes
later in arriving. The paddock to the
turnstile was broken and the mob soon
filled the corridors leading to the cells.
Seeing that further resistance was uie-
less and to avoid the killing Os innO-
cent prisoners the authorities consent
ed to the demand Of the mob for the
right man. He was dragged from his
cell to the jail door and thence down
the stone steps to court in the jail
yard. Fearing an attempt on part Of
the police to rescue him the leaders
formed a hollow square.
NINE SHOTS IN HIS BODY.
Some one knocked the negro to the
ground and those near to him fell back
four Of five feet. Nine Shots were fir
ed into his postrate body, and satisf-
ed that he was dead, dozen men
grabbed the lifeles, b )dy and with
triumphant cheer the mob Surged
INTO Columbia street and marched to
Fountlin avenue one Of the principle
streets 0f the town.
From here they marched south to
the intersection OF Main street, and
rope was tied around DlY0nS neck.
Two men climbed the pol" and threw
the rope over the topmOSt cross. arm
aud drew the body about IS feet above
the street. They then d, ,scended and
their work was greeted with cheer.
The fuSilla1e then begun and for 30
minutes the body was kept swaying
back and forth from the force Of the