The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-08-16

Salisbury, y. c. Speciai--Jadge
Long and Solicitor Hammer have GONE
all IN their power 10 bring The leaders
IF the mob that lynehed the three ne
sroes on Monday night TO Justice
-Four arrests have been made Judge
Long was very severe in bis denunci-
alton OF the crime In his charge 10
The grand jury be said, among other
things:
Gentlemen il has been said that
IN the early hours Of the night, there
was an unlawful assembly over
| there, pointing to the Jail, "and that
he court and others went and tried
20 dissuade the members OF it from
further crime and to dispersc them.
His Position Misunderstood.
"But there has been a misconcep-
lion of my position then. Not while
[ am judge will l ever go and beg
4 criminal not to do an unlawful act
But l did as a judicial officer go TO
that Jail and warn that mob and tell
them that they and their people
would suffer for their deed, not
through me, but through the law, and
[ told them to dispense. They made
as if to disperse, but this was only
for the purpose Of reinforcement.
And, even after that Jail yard had
been lighted with electricity, so that
it was almost as bright as day,
band of ruffians, lawles men, warned
as they had been by my charge to you
on Monday morning and evening and
my words to themselves at the Jail
overpowered the officers and took
three prisoners in the jail-these
very brave men and carried them
over here near the town Of Salisbury
after they had put out the lights,
thereby disclosing the fact that they
| hanged and shot and mutilated
th2se prisoners. 1t is reported that
near klnsman of the people whose
lives had been taken pleaded with
| the mob TO let the investigation go
| on.
If Immediately after the Lyerly
murder had been committed a mob
had lynched the murderers, some al
| lowance must hove been made for
| the passions of the moment and the
| judgment of the country would not
| have been harsh. But no such al
lowance can be made in this case.
A Band of Cut Threats.
"This was band of cut-throats
and murderers. There is no escaping
this: that the men who did that deed
are guilty of murder in the first de-
gree; that every man who aided and
| allotted that mob, by his presence,
his acts or his words is guilty of
murder i'll the first degree. And you
men have sworn to do your duty
He asked the clerk to read to the
jury the oath it had taken. When
the reading was finished, the judge
resumed:
"The question is whether you will
hew to the line. If any of you know
any man who assisted in that lynch
ing, by word or act, it is your duty
to report him to the court, and if the
solicitor furnishes you with evidence
as to who composed that mob, it is
your duty to- find bills against them.
"This, gentleman, is an extraordi-
nary lynching. Ordinarily when a
| lynching occurs it is Immediately
| after the act which provokes it or
before The court convenes to try the
charge. But here in defiance of the
court and of the authority with
which the law clothes you and the
other officers here, these men have
broken into the Jail and murdered
these prisoners, right under the nose
of the court, the caves of this court
house; so that the question has gone
forth to the ends of the earth wheth-
er or not our laws can be enforced
by the court or must be enforced by
the mob.
care you for the mob, or for the
court? Take your stand gentlemen.
eff you sift this things to the bot
tom, as demand of You, you will find
that the men who participated in this
mob and led it are not men of good
reputation or of any standing IL Row.
an county, but men who ought to be
behind the bars. / bring you face to
face with vonr dnty. gentlemen.
am going to do mine, before God and
man, without fear OF favor