Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-10-20
LYNCH HOLDS COURT IN
ARKANSAS.
Shooting White Men Result In Mob
Law in Notwithstanding Con-
Quoted i'm Business Like Way.

Quoted i'm Business Like Way.
Masked Men Took the Negro From
Prison and Lynched Him Near Po-
liceman, Who Didn't Know What
Was Going On.-The Lynching
Provoked 10y Series of Crimes.
Argenta, Ark. October As a
sequel TO the killing of John Lind
say and wounding of his son. Po-
liceman Milton Lindsay here last
night. presumably by Garrett Colum
and Charles Colum. colored. II.
Blackburn. colorei was lynched to-
night at 10 O'Clock at the corner Of
Sixth and Main Streets.
The trouble originated on Sep
tember u. when a white man named
r. r. Mcdonald killed a colored
musician named Wiley Shelby
Next day at the inquest held at the
Colum's undertaking store. a diff
Guilty arose in which Robert Colum
was killed and Deputy Constable Ed
Lindsay and Garrett Coium severe
" wounded. the latter emerging
y r.
Policeman .ailton Lindsay. a broth
er of Ed. Lindsay, was also hurt
at that time.
WHITES SHOT DOWN FROM AN
BUSH.
Last night Policeman Milton Lind
say and his father were walking
past the Colum store when they
were fred on from ambush. John
Lindsay was killed on the spot His
son was severely wounded but man
aged TO crawl out OF range. When
the police ami citizens attempted to
enter the store they were fred on
II is supposed Charles and Garrett
Colum did the shooting. Later In
the night. thinking the Colum broth
ers were stiIl locked in the rear
rooms OF the store. the place was
dynamited but the colored men had
escaped unseen in the darkness,
in the early part OF the trouble
They were still at large.
MORE WHITE MEN SHOT DOWN.
At 1880 o'clock this morning VIII
Harding. a painter, was halted on
the street by unknown parties.
whether black or white he could not
tell in the darkness. He was ask
ed If he was black or white. On
replying that he was white. he was
told 20 go back and while leaving
he was shot in the back. At > o.
clock James MahOney, a contractor
and Al Belding, a reporter of the
Little Rock Gazette, while going TO
fpg Hfearxras.,1
was on fire. Mahoney fired his pis-
tol in the air TO give the alarm. and
Immediately the two men were fireI
on from four different quarters with
shot guns. Mahoney was painfully
shot in the hand. Belongs clothes
were peppered with bird shot but
the developments for the night AMI
it was hoped and believed no fur
ther outbreak would occur.
BUSINESS-LIKE LYNCHING.
At noon to-day II. Blackburn, 81
years old, colOred, who conducts a
confectionery store in Argenta was
arrested on suspicion OF being the
man who fired on Mahoney and
Belling. No trouble was anticipa-
ted, the town being quiet all day
but as a precaution Mayor Faucette
and Sheriff Kavanaugh swore in ff-
teen extra policemen ami the sher-
IN sent several extra deputies to as
sist the police.
The lynching tonight was quiet
ly put through in a business like
way. Shortly before 10 O'Clock four
masked men entered the police sta
ton from the rear and one covered
the turnkey with a pistol while the
others got his keys. quickly unlock
ed Blackburn's cell and took him
out the back way. Not a shot was
fired ami there was no loud talking
so that Policeman Pratt, Sheriff Ka
vanaugh and two deputies who were
standing on the street a few blocks
away knew nothing of what was
going on until they heard several
shots fired at Main and 9th Streets.
Running there they found Blackburn
already dead hanged to a telegraph
pole while the crowd around were
apparently merely onlookers.
"oH, LORDYi" SAID COLoRED
MAN.
The lynchers had already un-
masked and mingled with the crowd
so that Identification was impossible
AS Blackburn was being taken from
the jail he kept exclaiming:
"Oh Lordyl"
He uttered no other word at any
time He kept on repeating the
words as he was marched down the
street and while the rope was be-
ing adjusted and again as he was
drawn up. He was strangling to
death slowly when he was put out
of his misery by several pistol bull
lets fired from the crowd. When
first arrested Blackburn said he
only arrived from Lake village