The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26
DEAD BODIES IN THE CHURCH Woy of Mob in
 Tennessee. : ,pEcTAToRS GATHER AT SCENE Governor Patterson Outraged at
 the Incident. Futile Efforts Put Forth To Prevent LynchinE Of Three Negroes But
 The Men Were De-
 termined.

Tiptonviile, Tenn. Nov. 25.-Three dead bodies dangling from an impro- vised scaffold erected in front of the pulpit of negro church in District No. 4, Lake county, five miles from this city. was the awful spectacle which greeted the crowd ~of curious people who gathered about the church this morning to view the work of the mob which took from the Tiptonville jails last night Marshall. Ed and Jim Stineback, the three negroes who shot and fatally wounded two deputy sher- iffs in front of this same church last Saturday night.
 1. The lynching of these negroes was planned with deliberation and execut- ed with a gruesome coolness that has rarely been witnessed in the work of mobs. All day yesterday this little city was filled with an excited mob numbering anywhere from 150 to 500 men. This mob, however, seemed willing to listen to reason and for some hours it was thought that the leaders had agreed to allow the law to take it's course. Late in the aft ernoon the mob dispersed.
 The negroes were arrested near Rfdgely and taken to TiptonvilIe. No sooner had this been accomplished than mob of determined men began to gather and within an hour prepar- ations to carry into execution the work of vengeance determined upon were well under way and the leaders began to gather their forces about them to make the assault on the jail.
 The crowds made up of determined and angry men. slowly surrounded the Jail, but soon 1t was met by one of the county's most prominent lawyers, J.. 1< Ha n fg1aT aQt0nn nH address urging the mob to desist from any act of violence and promising to use his influence in seeing that the negroes got a speedy trial
 Agrees to LynchinE.
 This did not appeal to the mob and finally S. J. Caldwell, another lawyer, proposed that if the mob was deter mined to lynch the negroes at least to wait until One semblance of a trial could be had and he suggested that Justice Davis be authorized to sum- mon jury and let the negroes be duly sentenced to death and then the mob could excute the sentence. This was agreed to and the mob, except just enough to watch the jail and see that Sheriff Haines. did not attempt to slip the negroes out and carry them to a place of safety, left the jail building to await the trial set for 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
 In the meantime. after the story of the proposed lynehing had been sent out and thus became known in Nash vile, MT. fIaines and others received telegrams- from Governor Patterson pleading with them for Gods sake to prevent the proposed lynching as 1t would be a disgrace to the State" He also agreed to order a special term of the criminal court to try the ne- groes.
 Sheriff Haines also communicated with Attorney General Caldwell at Union City and he in turn called up a number of men here including Cheek Rarrus. father of Richard Rarrus, the special deputy killed by the negroes. and Mrs. Rarrus. After talking with General Caldwell Rarrus said he was willing for the law to take It's course and he advised leaders of the mob to go home and let the negroes be tried in the regular way.
 Death in Negro Church.
 The men were finally taken from the Jail by the mob. placed in a wagon and driven to the church. where the negroes had committed their crimes.
 Here the mob following out cold. calculating determination which had characterized all of it's previous plans and proceedings, erected within the church scaffold just in front of the pulpit from which the three negroes were hanged. Marshall Stineback, the larger of the three brothers, being swung in the center of the beam with Ed and Johnston back on either end.
 After the negroes had been swung up a member of the mob stepped for ward and fired a shot into the body of Marshall Stinebeck, aiming at the exact spot in which the negro had shot Deputy Sheriff John Hall. The mob then quietly dispersed.