The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-01-11
LYNCH TWO NEGROES
Mob in Georgia AvengeS
MurderOuS Assault.
FARMERS WIFE IS A VICTIM
Mr.. and Yrs. 5. VI. Livingston Treat
ed in Most Inhuman Manner by
Two Farm HaBds-WOmsD Walks "a
Mile to NeighbOF's Home to Give
the Aiarm-Men Soon Captured.

Dublin, Ca, Jan I0.-Two negroes have
been lynched being literally shot to
pieces and their bodies burned. as the
result of a murderous assault on S. NJ.
Livingston. a well-known farmer, and
his wife, who live about nine miles north
Of Chester.
Mrs. Livingston was assaulted by one
OF the negroes and badly slashed with
knife which he carried BarefoOted and
bleeding from her wounds. Mrs Living
ston walked for a mile to her nearest
neighbor. where she gave the alarm. Mr
Livingston was attacked by the negro
with a Ratchet ana apparently left dead.
Wednesday night about 10 o'clock Mr.
Livingston was awakened by the noise
of some one coming in the window of his
bedroom. He jumped out of his bed and
caught up his shotgun. which was lying
I'm "a corner nearby. He attempted 10
shoot the intruder. but before he could
fire the gun he was struck on the head
with an ak by a second man, who had
entered the house through the kitchen
The asaiants were two negro hands liv-
ing on the place Tom Coley and Abe
/ Webb, and the evident purpose of the
attack was robbery. Mr.. Livingston was
| generally known 10 keep a large sum Of
money in the house.
Ask for Hidden Money.
After striking Mr. Livingston on the
head and face several times with the ak
and leaving him, as they supposed, dead,
the negroes attacked Mrs. Livingston,
who was sleeping in the same room. They
forced her to tell them where the money
was. She told them that all the money
they had was tied up in a handkerchief
in one Of the bureau drawers. and for
| them 20 get II and leave.
/ After getting the money. which proved
/ TO be only S23, one Of the negroes. Tom
/ Coley, assaulted Mrs Livingston. and
/ then slashed her with knife all over
/ the face, chest. and back The negroes
/ left her apparently dead. Just at this
/ moment one of Mrs LiVingstOns sons.
/ aroused by the noise, went out in the
yard and began TO ring the farm bell 10
give the alarm.
This caused the negroes 10 run from
/ the house, They seized the boy and COM
PEELED him TO stop. Meantime. Mrs Liv-
/ ingston slipped out of the house and
made her way to the house Of a neighbor.
Themselves Give the Alarm.
The negroes. after they had stopped the
/ boy from ringing the bell, went back to
the house. When they found that Mrs
/ Livingston had gone they decided TO give
/ the alarm in order TO keep suspicion from
I themselves Each saddled a mule and
started in different directions to the
/ houses of neighbors.
One Of the men, after going by his own
house and leaving the stolen money and
/ his bloody shirt, went to the house Of the
neighbor To whom Mrs. Livingston had
already made her way, and arrived few
minutes later than Mrs. Livingston One
Of the negroes went into the house and
reported that some one had broken into
Mr.. Livingston's house and had killed
both Mr.. Livingston and his wife.
When Mrs. Livingston, who was lying
on the bed, raised 10 and said: That's
one Of the men who broke In the house,
the negro was securely bound by neigh,
bors who had gathered at the house ans
the party went on over 10 the Livingston
house. and in a short while captured tht
other negro.
Riddle Bodies with BuIIets.
The negroes were kept there until thi.
morning and were positively identified by
Mrs Livingston, and a mob of severa
hundred infuriated citizens took the ne
groes out and hanged them and riddleC
their bodies with bullets. Later They
were burned.
The wives of these two negroes wer,
later in the day arrested by the sheriff
of Dodge County and brought to Cheste
for safe keeping. as they are suspected o
knowing more about the crime than the!
have admitted Mr.. and Mrs. Livingston
are both still alive, but there is no hop
for their recovery. Mrs. Livingston wa
in poor health at the time Of the attack
The people are tremendously wrough
up over the crime and further troubl