Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-11-25
|M0B EXECUTES
| COURT SENTENCE
Three teQrees Strung up BY
TesGesseeans After Quick
Trial ard Conviction.
TRIO nAO KILLED CEPU|T SHERIFF
To Appease Menacing Mob. Justice
Opens Court, Tries ard Sentences
Murderers to Death - CroWo
Swarms Into Court Room, Seizes
Prisoners and Hangs Them to Tree.
(By Associated PreSs)

UNION CITY. lf-NN.. NOV. -
The it'll" town of Tiptunvlil". Dor
d,rnc on Rrcltuo Lake. which has
lrcn lh, SC. nc Of many stirring IN
cid"nt> the pa month witnessed ~"
ly"chin-. lac to-day Ct three negroes,
vino w,r" arr. N:"d this morning tor
numbering Special Deputy Sheriff
Richard Burriss. and fatally wound
ing John Hall. a deputy sheriff.
The negroes are: Marshall : me
beck. Edward Siinch"ck. jim S'inr-
beck.
TIL. So brothers created disturb
anc" a a religions meeting near Twp
ton>iIIr Saturday a'd when N" NV"
officers attempted to arrest them. a
fight rnSnrd. the n, 2rOcS coming oh'
vic:oriols and n.ad.. their escape.
Captured In Canebrake.
II was barely daylight Sunday
morning before 4 posse of citizen :
from Tip onvil'c and tn" yurronnd-
ing country were in pursuit or me
rngrocs. hut they "ffectnally "indei
them until eigh. o'clock this morning
when the" were surrounded and cap
tured in little swamp near the VII
Iage of Ridgeley. The vicinity Is
known as the old river Ted cane
brake, and it is difficult to trace man
or beast through its tangieS. Inc
negroes were quickly landed in jail
at Tiptonville. When arrested the
negroes he'd two guns in their pos
session but had run oIt Of ammuni-
ton.
Lawyer Pleads With Mob.
The news OF their capture sprea"
RAPIDLY TO The surrounding territory
and ~ addition the several hundred
members of the posse began arriving
bv every road. and soon the jail was
surrounded BY mob which threat
encd a lynching quickly and surely
!. T. Burnett a well known lawyer
from the steps of the Jail appeared
20 the mob. admonishi"g his hearers
no.; TO do anything desperate and 20
10, the law take its course. at me
same time promising that full justice
would be dOne the three black men.
This met wsh disanproval and MI
Burnett pleaded with tn" men thar
if they were determined to lvnch me
negroes. they at least wait nntl'
right had fallen.
TavIcr Hall. a brother OF tn"
wounded deputy. sheriff. said in enc"
that 2 nosipOnement would he sat
isfactory to him. 1t was soon seen
however. that it was impossible I"
sem the tide of feeling Of the mon.
As a las: resort. s. J. Caldwell. a
.ownsman and Sheriff Hayn's went
before Justice L." Davis and told OF
the menacing attitude of the Cr"wd
which thro" Ged the streets ieajirS /"
the Jail.
Quick Trial and Sentence.
Justice Paws agreed 10 ou"n hi :
court and at once summoned a jury
of - men and allowed tn" negroes.
after I'll evidence that ,oUld b. N
duco,l was heard. to he scn'"nc"d I"
d. aih. Meanwhile Governor Pat"r'
son was advised by telephone of tn"
situation and ordered a com?any %
all base to s"cnrc he negroes and
conduct them to place of safely.
The troops were started At ono"
Int faiici 10 arrive in tine % pre-
wet the lvnching
At the trial only tn" evidence OF
those who had seen ne kiil' z Wa
heard and in all incredibly short
time the case was given 20 the jur"
who in a few minutes returned a yer
ct Of guilty. fixing the penalty at
d"a'h.
Mob Executes Sentence.
The sen ence had barely ben pr"
npunc.d when the mob vi! wh""p
and vcil swarmri into tn" court
room and sciz'7g the n"gro"s rushed
them 10 a large tree near ;hc edge
e tow, AID hanged them. firing vol
irv after vOlIey in o the air a IN"
bodies were drawn from the earth.