The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-09-17
NEGRO BROUGHT
To THIS CITY
To DODGE MOB
OFFICERS AT BAILEY FOOLED
LYNcHlNG PARTY FORMED
AT HAZLEHURsT.
Negro Who Assaulted Well Known
Young White Woman is Now
in the Glynn County Jail
for Safe Keeping.

1t was by shrewd work that the Off
gers Of Hazlehurst and Baxley pre-
vented lynching Tuesday night il
being necessary to rush prisoner to
BaXley. instead Of Hazlehurst, where
a mob had been formed and then, after
1t was discovered that the prisoner
had been hurried to Baxley and fear
ing that the mob would go to that city,
the officers quietly placed their pris-
oncr on the early morning Southern
tram ami brought him To ijrunswic ick.
and he is now safely behind the bars
of The Glynn county jail where he
will be kept until the date of his
tII2l.
The prisoner in question is Tom
Purdy, a negro, who is charged with
assaulting Mrs Win Burke, a young
white woman % years of age, who re-
sides &C miles south of Hazlehurst, in
Jen Davis county. The crime for
which the negro is held was commit
ted last Saturday, but the negro was
only captured Tuesday A mob, it is
understood, had been made up to
lynch the negro. but the officers sue
ceeded in lodging the angry citizens
and had the prisoner in this city be-
fore they knew that he had been re-
moved from the Baxley jail
The following account of the assault
was sent out yesterday from Halle
hurst:
While the husband of the victim
was in the field at work a black ne
gro weighing about $50 pounds, came
to the Burke home and asked Mrs
Burke for q drink of water. She told
him to gogto the well and get it. She
went about getting wood to cook din
ner, lie came from the WeIl and ap-
preached her, asking for something
to eat. She told him that she had
nothing cooked; that the children had
eaten what was left from breakfast.
He replied. That is d lie"
striking her a blow with a stick. She
knew nothing more for an hour. when
she regainad consciousness sufficient
~ to raise herself up. Her husband
came in about that time Blocdhounds
were secured, but failed to follow the
negro, and hundreds of men searched
the woods until he was located at H..
w. Johnson's turpentine place.
Several negroes had been carried
before the victim for Identification,
but did not prove to be the right man.
When the guilty negro was brought
he was kept outside and his hat car
r!ed in. She said THAT is the hat"
The negro was then carried before
her and she said That is the man.
without any doubt
Had it not been for Ellis and John
son he would have paid the penalty
for his crime on the spot. but cooler
heads kept down any rash action. The
crowd expected the sheriff to bring
him to Hazlehurst, but he made a
straight drive for BaXley or the negro
might have been summarily dealt with
on the way to Hazlehurst.
THE outrage occurred within one
mile of the place where two negroes
went to the home of Dan Minis, a
young farmer, several years ago and
brutally murdered him and robbed the
house, his wife making her escape at
ter being stricken down and left for
dead. They were afterwards execut-
ed at Baxley, that being before the
formation of Jeff Davis county.
"The negro's victim is recovering
slowly. but the shcck has rendered
her physical condition very feeble"