The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-11
NO INDICTMENTS
FOR LYNCHERS
SAYS MAYOR OF STATESBoRo.
DOES NOT BELIEVE MEN COULD BE
CONVICTED II INDICTED.

RumOred That n Presentation Will
Be Made to the Grand Jury of
BuIlOch County When 1t Meets on
Oct. 24-GOv. Terrell Has Declared
That He VIII Send the Records OF
the COurt-MartiaI to the Grand
Jury for InfOrmation-WOuld he
Hard to Procure Evidence.
Il do not believe that the Bulloch
county grand jury will indict anyone
for the lynching of Cato and Reed"
said Mayor G. S. Johnston of States
boro yesterday afternoon at the De-
Soto, land even if indictments were
returned it would be an impossibility
to convict any one"
The result of the trial of alleged
lynchers at Huntsville, Mr.. Johnston
believes, would be repeated if an in
vestigation was made into the States
boro affair. Sentiment there, even
among those who decry the recent hor-
ror, is not in favor of furnishing those
implicated, and it would be an impos-
sibility to secure a jury to convict
anyone accused.
Gov. Terrells statement that he
would see that the records of the
court-martial were turned over to the
Bulloch county grand jury, is of little
interest in StateSboro, as that evil
dence, and more, too, is available.
The Bulloch county grand jury meets
Oct "A. 1t is understood in Statesboro
that list of names of alleged lyncherS
will be presented, some believing that
Rev. Whitley Langston will do this.
Evidence on which to find an indict-
ment, however will not be forthcom-
ing, Mr.. Johnston says.
Mayor Johnston was in the fore
front of the peacemakers at States
boro on that eventful day. OF mag
niticent physique, over six feet in
hight, and highly respected and admir-
ed by his fellow citizens he had much
influence with the excited crowd, and
stayed the lynchers for some time.
Mayor Johnston was on the stand be-
fore the court-martial which is sitting
at the Guards Armory, testifying as to
the conduct of the soldiers.
Will Indict Lynchers, Says Ken
drick.
Sheriff 7. z. Kendrick of Bulloch
county came in from StateSboro last
night in response to a summons from
the COuIl-llldItldl now III SESSION.. Wnen
seen at the Pulaski House by a Morn
ing News reporter Sheriff Kendrick
stated emphatically that every man
who was implicated in the lynching of
Paul Reed and Will Cato will be in
dicted by the next grand jury, if they
can be identified.
"Of course there will be many who
will go free who were really in the
mob said Sheriff Kendrick, but we
hrr l., L
who can be positively identified as
members of the lynching party, and
they will be presented to the grand
jury.
II feel certain, that in view of past
events, Judge Daley will exert every eff
fort to bring the guilty parties to JUS
tice. 1 feel the necessity for such ac-
tion as keenly as he does.
Will IndicI VIII Rainey.
Sheriff Kendrick stated that Will
Rainey, one of the negroes arrested at
the same time as were Reed and Cato.
would be indicted as accessory to the
Hodges murder. Rainey is held in
| the Bulloch county Jail. Sheriff Ken
drick said he believed he had sufficient
evidence to convict Rainey.
Plenty of Labor In BuIIOch.
The sheriff stated that while the
fields in his county were white with
cotton, that the anticipated scarcity of
labor was not interfering with the har-
veSting. Il assured all the negroes
that they would be protected" he said,
land very few of them left after the
| lynching. Farmers are paying 60 cents
per hundred for picking cotton, which,
naturally draws labor from the tur-
pentiEe aEd lumber men, who are
| about the only ones suffering from this
! cause right now"
Sheriff Kendrick said that the fire
which burned the Bulloch County Oil
Mills at o'clock yesterday morning
was undoubtedly of incendary origin.
Several parties are suspected. Mr..
Kendrick anticipates that the next
session of Bulloch Superior Court Will
be the longest ever held in the county.