Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-02-07
LYNCHING OCCURS
AT NEWDERRY
jock Long Hanged There Early
Thursday Morning.
susPIcIoNED OF KILLING sAPP

Had Been ARRESTED and Was Taken
from Jail and Hanged to Trse--He
Was a Brother OF the Man Young
skPp Killed Sometime Age.
The brutal and uncalled.for assassi.
nation of Elias Sapp, a well-known
and prominent farmer OF the Jones
VILE section who was shot down in
cold blood on the outskirts Of Newber.
ry few nights ago. has been avenged
as far as suspicion Ia concerned, and
Jack Long. q white man Of the New.
berry district, has paid the penalty
with his life.
The victim met his death at the
hands OF a mob numbering nearly two
hundred people about o'clock Thurs.
day morning. He was hanged to
limb near the scene of the murder Of
q few nights before.
Ever since the murder of Elias
sapp, people OF the Newberry and
Jonesville districts have been quiet.
ly at work weaving web. They had
little to say regarding the tragedy,
however, but kept steadily on In their
investigation, which resulted In the
arrest Wednesday OF Jack Long, who
was suspicioned OF the murder
Long was taken to Newberry and
placed in the town jail, and rs soon
as the news spread the people OF the
town and surrounding country evI-
IDENTIFY became very indignant. The
officers, apprehending trouble, placed
three guards around the jail, but
shortly after midnight q mob closed
down upon them, taking them cap
tlves.
II was an orderly mob. but de.
termlned. While the guards were
held cRptlves at the mercy OF those
about them. men broke the lock and
opened the door To the little prison.
house. Trembling with fear the con.
demned victim crouched IN n corner,
as he realised that his time for death
had come, and that It was useless to
resist.
Quietly and orderly the COMMITTEE"
lead Long from the Jail, placed a rope
about his neck, and, heading the pro-
cesslon, started on the death march,
Those having the guards In charge
placed them IN the prison, secured
the door. and fell In the rear.
This must have been a march OF
suspense for the man who was at the
mercy OF those about him, and who
realized that the end was only few
moments OF He must have walked
with steady nerve. however. as the
halfmile point No which Il had been
planned to take his life was reached
IN reasonable time, The mans
thoughts must have been only thoughts
OF misery. however, for II was n crltl
cal moment
Arriving upon the scene, under 8
spreading oak, the rope was thrown
over convenient limh, when Long
was swung into ctonity--and the
death Of Elias Sapp was avenged as
far ~ tha, gathering waa concerned.
Having been notified early In the
mOFRins, Coroner Henderson cmpanel.
led Jury and visited the scene. where
they found the body suspended The
Jury, after vowIug tho rcmEinN. re-.
turned verdict that the deceased
Jack Long. came Ia his death at the
hands of parties unknown.
At last reports everything Was quiet.
cd down TO the usual conditions at
New berry. and no further trouble IL
Anticipated
Jack Ions was n brother ~ the
man whom Young Sdpp assasdnated
some months aVu the murderer making
MA escape. aud he WAS under Euspi.
cton ot having killed the father " the
man who had Killed bis unnE'sN
brother. Long WAS also brtnlherin.
law Of Sapr,
AAFrtaue n WlleoH