The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-02
HANGED To / DERRICK.
Negro Who Assaulted a White
Girl Quickly
PUNISHED FOR HIS CRIME.
After Being Identified by the Victim
Of His Shameful Deed the Nj ,creant
Was Taken In Charge by Mob and
Soon Disposed OF.

SteIrett, l. T.. April 2.-.Iust as
crowded excursion train from Denison
to South McAlester reached the depot
at Sterrett Sunday it ran into a d6s
perate struggle between United States
officers and great mob of Infatuated
people for possession of negro ac
cused of criminal assault upon Miss
Maud Misner, near Red river bridge
last Saturday. Into the melee the pas
time to see the officers overpowered
alter the depot had been battered down
and the negro dragged with a rope
about his neck into an old derrick 800
yeards away and lynched.
The officers had been waiting at
the depot with the prisoner, intending
to take the excursion train to Durant.
The negro was captured in the after
noon near Colbert by posse of citi
Zens and turned over to the United
States officers who had been notified
at DenisOn of the crime and had come
Some of the Colbert people were In
favor of hanging the negro there, but
were prevailed upon to let the law take
its course
The officers started to drive over
land to Durant. and had been assured
by the city marshal OF Sterrett, or Gale,
as it is also called. they say, that there
would be not rOuble If they drove
through that town
Ihey held no conversation with the
negro other than to secure name
At Gale the officers concluded that
1t would be safer to wait for the excur-
sion train bringing baseball crowd
from Denison, conveying the negro to
Durant by rail
At the depot, however. mob of sew
eral hundred presons met ,nem, and
the officers retreated into the depot,
where they repulsed the crowd
The train pulled into the depot and
the officers attempted to fight their
way through the crowd with the negro.
but outside were again attacked and
were compelled to retreat into the de
pot again.
The crowd attacked the door and bat
tering in and overpowering officers.
took their weapons away from them
and took possession of the negro. No
shots were fired during the melee.
A rope was tied about the Negroes
neck and he was dragged off to an old
oil well derrick. 300 years from the
depot, the officers protesting
The negro was severely beaten on
ha xr-oy
made to stab him He was placed on
platform. the rope was thrown over
beam and te was strung quickly up
without having been given chance to
make statement.
AS the writing body swung In the
air possibly seventy-five shots were
fired. but only one bullet struck the
body AS the body was strung up
someone slasbed the negroes throat
When the crowd had to an extent
dispersed the body was cut down. but
not until the members of the mob had
almost stripped 1t nude In search of
souvenirs.
In the hat of the negro was found
punched with a perforating stamp the
name Dock Jones'" He told the off.
GERS mis- name was Jim Williams. and
though they have only this to go by
believe he told the truth. and that the
hat may have been picked up by the
negro.
At Colbert the negro was put in a
room with four other negroes Accom-.
panied by her mothnr. Miss Misner was
taken into the room. She pointed out
the negro under arrest as her assailant
and from collection of weapons on
a table selected one taken from the
prisoner as the pistol he had taken
from her at the time of the crime The
Identification of both negro and pistol
was without hesitation.