The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-03-11

oDI9llS1ISINy JIM NA
ard Dixon. a egro was shot 10 oeaIh
here tonight by a mob for the killing
oe Policeman Charles Coils, who Oeo
today from wounds received at
hands of Dixon on Sunday
Coils had gone to Di1on's FOOT on
nae negre's request Dixon said his
mistress had his clothes in her pos
session. Coils accompanied 70
dine room and in a short time the maai
and woman engaged in a quarrel
which resulted in Dixon shoounS the
woman, who is varfouSly KNOWN aa
Anna or Mamie Corbin, In the lett
breast. lust over the heart She fell
unconscious IL the first shot and Gel
fts jumped towards b to pre-
veaat his escape from the room Dd0oG1
shea fired tour balls into Oolhs. the
sast Of which penetrated his don
Oxen went immediately to pcloa
headquarters and gave himself up he
Vac taken 10 Jail.
TaIk OF Lynchin&
Az seon as Coils DEATH became
knswn. talk OF lynching Ia negro WA
heard and tonight a crowd -
gather about the jail
At II O'Clock h negro. RohAro
Taxe<A was taken from the jail ID
sast to death in the jail YARD nc the
fsody was taken from there 10 Che
aorper Of Main street and
avenue. and hung to a telegraph pobe
where the mob spent the next hAI
-Four rfddEng the body with bullets
aesm several hundred REVIEWERS
Fenced Entrance Into Jail.
The mob forced an entrance to ore
lslI by butting in the east doors VIVA
4 railroad iron- AT 1880 the moo
Melted rapidly and 1T wHs the gen
Grad opinion that no more attempts
~,eulId he made TO effect an
ANAL groups of men. however. could
ne seen in shadows OF the court house
adjacent livery stable and aevera1
dwelling houses. AT 10:46 O'Clock the
notice were satisfied that there was
Nothing more to fear and they, with
sfdoials and newspaper men. passed
ereely in and out OF the JAIL
Shortly before IL O'Clock a diver
sbsn was made by q small crowo
n>oyine from the east door around %
The entrance. The police followed hn0
O bluff Was made ait jostling them On
ehe steps, leading up Il the south en.
trance. The crowd at h point hepa
OWL III ySlS Va IAoAu S p
zee" Smash the Doors" Lynch the
saxeer," were made, inteTspe1sed with
revolver shots.
Beating the Door Down
All this time the party With the
railroad iron was beating at the eeai
aeer. which shortly yielded t. uhn
Mastering ram, as did n nne lat
ice iron door. The mob then surgeo
through the east door. overpewereo
Ene sheriff, turnkey and a handful oil
.Reputies and began the assault on Cns
iren turnsil leading to the cells Th<
polboe from the south door wers
called inside to keep the mob from
eAe cells, and in five minutes ns
south door had shared the late OF
The east one. In an incredibly shor'
ame the jail was filed with q mob %
ase men with all the entrances anc
yard gates blocked by fully s,5es
nen, thus making it impossible feu
the militia to have prevented Access
70 the negro, had it been on tn
aceLBe.
Tbe heavy iron partition leading u
ehe scene resisted the MOB eneccuaLn
until coaa chiels and sheCSe ham
~ne-s arrived, which were only two o.
tkree minutes later in arriving. Ths
PADDOCK 10 the ~turnStile was brokes
and the mob soon filled the corT1doT'
baadfng 20 the jail yard
uhe Authorities Yield to the Mob
Demand
Seeing that further resistance wa
useless, the authorities consented Q
ne demands of the men for the nigh
nan. He was dragged his Gel
% the Jail door and thence down IN
STONE steps to a u in the jail YARD
Fearing an attempt o the part OF tn
oonce to rescue him the leaders borm
ed a hollow Quare.
Nine Shots End His Life.
some one knocked the negro b oh
Eetnd and those near to him bel
back four ~ Y e Nine mot
were fired into the prostitute body an
ntzsned that he was dead, q ooDel
nsen grabbed the lffeleD body anl
with a triumphant cheer h ms
enxed into Columbia soreed g