The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-08-09
NEGRO MURDERERs
LYNCHED BY MOS
North Carolina Crowd Hang and Then
Riddle Three Black Mems Bodies
With Bullets.

Charlotte, n. c.. Aug. ga mob O.
5000 men shortly before II o'clock last
night forcibly entered the Rowan coun-
ty Jail at Salisbury, removed there
from three of the five negroes charged
With the murder Of the Iyerly family
at Barber Junction July IS, ana
.Ilynched them. Neace and John GILES.
pie and Jack Dillingham;, supposed te
be the principals in that crime, Were
the victims of mob vengeance. The re-
naming negroes, Hersry Lee, George
Erwin and Bella Dillingham;, We're not
molested, and later last night officers
hurried them off to Greensboro.
The mob began gathering at sun
down. Mayor Boyden promptly ordered
the saloons closed, and with other
prominent citizens, United States Sen
ator Overman, Judge Long, who was
to try the negroes, II Solicitor Ham
mer gathered OH the Jail steps INC ad-
numbered 1000. There We're bowls and
cat calls from the mob, but for a time
There was no m~oye--the mo lacked a
leader. While citizens We're appealing
to the mob two men slipped through
the mob and attempted to break in
the Jail with hammers. They We're dis
covered n arrested. About 8 o'clock
Mayor Boyden called upon the local
militia company for aid. The men as
sembled quickly, but were supplied
only with blank cartridges, having no
orders to shoot to kill. Fireman Nc
Lendon, of Charlotte, a Southern rail-
way employe, was shot and fatally
wounded by a member of the mob.
VIII Troutman, a negro drayman, was
also shot n seriously wounded. Both
of the shootings are claimed to have
been accidental.
AT 10 O'Clock the mob was aug
r1ented by fully 500 men who came, it is
said, from Whitney. 1t was but a few
minutes after their arrival when a
crowd Of fifty, forming a sort of flying
wedge. made rush for the Jail doors,
overpowered the officers and effected
an entrance. The great crowd outside
surged in behind the leaders and in a
few moments more emerged from the
door with their victims and marched
northward.
A halt was made at Henderson's ball
grounds on the edge Of town. There.
the negroes were given time to confess
the crime. They refused either to deny
or confess and were so thoroughly
power Of speech. o Gillespie wept
p%iteously and begged for his life.
Finally at midnight the three were
strung up to limbs of n tree and with
howls and curses the moi riddled the
dangling bodies with bullets. The mob
then dispersed.
George Erwin was taken from the
Jail with his associates and closely
questioned. Then the mol led him
back to his cell.
Ed Barber, a relative of the MUIR
dered man, followed the mob with the
prisoners to the scene Of the lynching
and pleaded with them to return the
negroes to the Jail and let the law take
its course, but the moi paid no atten-
ton to him.
The crime for which the three men
were lynched was committed on the
night Of July IS, near BARRIERS juno
ton, about forty miles from Green's
boro. Isaac Lylerly, a we'll known
farmer, his wife and two children were
killed while asleep, a third child was
fatally wounded, and the house set on
fire. The mex night Sheriff Julian, Of
Rowan county, arrested and brought
to Charlotte for safe keeping the two
Gillespies, Dillingham; II wife, George
Irwin and Henry Lee.