Mexico Missouri message., 1906-10-18
THEY STRUNG UP A NEGRO
AReENTA, ARK, JOINS PROCESS
SION OF LYNcHiNG TOWNS.
Taken from Police Station by Masked
Men, Hanged to a Telegraph Pole,
and Shot to Death.

killing of John Lindsay, and the
wounding of his son, Policeman
Milton Lindsay, here Saturday, pre-
sumably by Garrett Colum and Chas.
Colum. negroes, H. Blackburn, a ne
gro, was lynched Sunday night at 10
o'clock at the corner of Sixth and
Main streets.
The lynching is the latest link in a
chain of clashes between whites and
blacks, which started on Sept. Is, when
a white man, r. r. Mcdonald, killed
a negro musician named Wiley Shelby.
Next day, at the inquest, a difficulty
arose, in which Robert Colum was
killed, and Deputy Constable Ed. Lind
say and Jarrett Colum severely wound
ed, the latter emerging from the hos
pltal only Saturday. Policeman Mil
ton Lindsay, a brother of Ed Lindsay,
was also hurt at that time.
Fired on From Ambush.
Saturday night Policeman Milton
Lindsay and his father were walking
past the Colum store, when they were
fired on from ambush. John Lindsay
was killed on the spot. His son was.
severely wounded, but managed to
crawl out of range. When the police
and citizens attempted to enter the
store they were fired upon. 1t is sup
posed that Charles and Garrett Column
did the shooting.
Later In the night, thinking the
Colum brothers were still locked in
the rear room of the store, the place
was dynamited, but the negroes had
escaped unseen in the darkness in the
early part of the trouble. They are
still at large.
Night Assaults.
At 1880 o'clock Sunday morning,
VIII Harding, a painter, was halted on
the street by unknown parties, wheth-
er black or white he could not tell.
He was asked If he was black or
white. On replying that he was white,
he was told to go back, and while leav-.
ing he was shot in the back.
At 2 o'clock Sunday morning James.
Mahoney, a contractor, and L. Beld-
ing, reporter for the Little Rock Ga
zette, while going to see Harding,
were fired on from four different quar-
ters with shotguns. Mahoney was
painfully shot in the hand. Belongs
clothes were peppered with bird shot,
but none entered his body. That end
ed developments for the night.
! At noon Sunday H. Blackburn, 81
years old, negro, who conducted a
confectionery store in Argenta, was
arrested on suspicion of being the man
who fired on Mahoney and Bedding.
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precaution Mayor Faucette and Sheriff
Kavanaugh swore in fifteen extra po-
licemen, and the sheriff sent several
extra deputies to assist the police.
A Quiet, Business-Like Lynching.
The lynching was done in a quiet,
business-like way. Shortly before 10
o'clock Sunday night four masked men
entered the police station from the
rear, and one covered the turnkey
with a pistol, while the others got his
keys, unlocked Blackburn's cell and
took him out the back way. Not a
shot was fired, and there was no loud
talking, so that Policeman Pratt Sher.
iff Kavanaugh 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 Sixth streets
Running there, they found Blackburn
already dead, hung to telegraph pole
while the crowd was apparently mere
ly onlookers.
Blackburn was strangling to death
slowly, when he was put out Of his
misery by several bullets.
Not Believed to Have Been Right Man
Kansas City, Mo.-A special tc
the Journal from Little Rock says:
Blackburn, the negro taken from
the jail by a mob at Argenta and
lynched, is not believed to have beer
the man wanted.
THE free bridge between this city
and Argenta was covered with negroes
last night Fully 500 deserted theil
homes in that city, and came to Lit
tie Rock to spend the night.
THE leaders stated that they were