The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-11-27

CHURCH LEADERS HAVE SOME
THING TO CONSIDER - LAW-l
LESS ELEMENT REleNs.
On last Saturday night a church in
Tiptonville was the scene of row
that terminated in one of the bloodi-
est outrages ever committed in this
State. The trouble was started by
some of the attendants at the festival.
The officers of the church called in a
deputy sheriff to quell the disturb
ance. When he went to make the ar
rest the Steinback brothers resisted.
Shots were exchanged and when the
smoke cleared away II was discov-
cred that the officers had gotten the
worst of the bargain. This was a)
signal for the assembling of the mob
organization The men were arrest
ed and landed in Jail. The sheriff
had other business away from his
post of duty at the most critical time,
and the mob, seemingly knowing that
the Sheriff was away, went to the
jail and took the three men out and
carried them into the church where
the trouble started and there erected
a, scaffold on the altar to execute
their victims on. So the effort on
the part of the church officers and the
pastor to get the people together on
Saturday night and have festival
has cost the lives of three rave men,
disgraced the community and the
State, and destroyed the usefulness
of the church for an unknown period,
and probably forever. The Men had
5000 when arrested, which no account
has been made for. The daily papers
reported the outrage as follows:
Special to the Banner.
Tiptonville, Tenn, November 25.-
Three dead bodies dangling from an
improvised scaffold erected in front of
the pulpit of negro church in Dis
trict No. 4, this (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. They had as
sembled to view the work of the mob
which took from the Tiptonville Jail
last night Marshall, Ed and Jim Slime
back, the negroes who shot and fatally
wounded two deputy sheriffs in front
of this same church last Saturday
night.
The lynching of these negroes was
planned with deliberation and exc
cuted with a grewsome GOODNESS that
has rarely been witnessed in the work
of mobs. AS a rule mobs act in the
heat of passion, but this mob went
about its work with a cool delibera-
ton unusual for it's detail of plan, but
nevertheless effective in its execution.
ALL-DAY MOB.
1t will be remembered that all day
yesterday this little city was filled
with an excited mob, numbering any
where from $50 to 500 men. This
mob, unlike others, 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. Along late in the aft
ernoon the mob dispersed, and the
town again assumed its usual quiet
ness; but later the angry men reas
sembled and accomplished their dire
full purpose.
The negroes were arrested early in
the morning near Ridgeley and were
taken to Tiptonville and committed tC
Jail. No sooner had this been accom-
plished than a mob of determined
men began to gather and within ar
hour preparations to carry into eXecu
ton the work of vengeance deter
mined upon were well under way anC
the leaders began to gather theil
forces about them to make the assault
on the jail The crowd made up of de
termined and angry men, slowly sur
rounded the Jail, but here it was me