Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-03-04
DALLAS IN MOB'S HANDS
FOR NEARLY THREE HOURS.
Negro Criminal Thrown from Window
of Court Room, Breaking His Neck
Corpse Then Hung to Telephone Pole

Dallas, Tex, March 3.-Led by an
old negro, mob today burst into the
court room in which Allen Brooks, an
other aged negro, charged with Grim :
| inally assaulting two year old white
child, was to receive a lawful sentence
| of guilty, seized Brooks and tossed him
through second story window, break
| ing his neck. His body was dragged
| through the streets by infuriated men,
who hanged it to the Elks' arch high
above the heads of the crowd.
With it all, hardly word was spok-
| en-, and not a shot was fired. Above
| the dull murmurings of the mob could
| be heard the negro's trembling prayers
for mercy
| Mob Stormed Jail in Search of Other
Negroes.
After Brooks was hanged, Dallas for
nearly three hours was in the hands of
the rioters.
The Jail was storrned and death was
| threatened to three other negroes held
on charges of murder. They had been
taken away, however, and after search
ing for them in vain the mob dis
persed
Immediately after his arrest last
week for attacking the child Brooks
was taken out of Dallas for safe keep
ing. He was returned today and TAX
en to the court house to await the call
ing of his case. A great crowd gath
cred and when attorneys for the de-
tense began arguments in behalf of a
postponement of the trial rumors start
ed through the crowd that a change of
venue had been granted.
Concerted action followed this ru-
NOR. The court house was charged by
the crowd. Scores of officers were
overpowered the locked doors of the
wrecked, and the negro, crouching in
a corner praying, was seized by the
mob's leaders.
Stamped His Face to a Pulp.
Those rioters who could not crowd
into the court room surrounded the
building, maSsing mostly under the
court room windows. A rope with a
hangman's knot was thrown up to- the
court room window when the leaders
announced that the negro had been
taken. The moose was placed about his
neck and he was pulled and thrown
from the building, throwing his arms
and legs about spasmodically as he fell
to earth. He struck on his forehead,
thirty feet below the window Whether
he was killed by the fall will never be
known, for the moment he struck doz-
ems of men jumped on him and stamp
I'd his face to a pulp. His body was
likewise mutilated.
Corpse Hanged to Telephone Hole.
A score of men seized the rope and
at the head of the mob dragged the
negro's body twelve blocks up Main
street to an arch which was erected
during the Elks' national convention
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the top of a supporting telephone pole
The police cut the body down five
minutes later Tt was taken to the
city hall and later turned over to the
undertaken.
After the lynching there were cries
to the effect that other negro prison
er in the county Jail especially Bur-
rel Oaty and "Blubber" Robinson, held
for murder. were to be hanged by the
mob.
Negroes Spirited Out of Town.
The rioters marched to the county
jail The sheriff announced that the
men wanted were not there. He al
lowed a committee selected by the
mob to search the prison. The ne
avengers were not satisfied. They bat
tered at the Jail doors with a steel
rail until IAN officer fired a blank shot.
The committee then loudly announced
that the negroes were not in the Jail
and the crowd moved away.
It turned out that deputy sheriffs
had taken the two negroes out of the
city in an automobile. 1t was said that
they passed through Fort Worth, Tex
as.
A mob attempted to board train
and pursue, but while rioters were at
the station an officer spread a false
report that one of the negroes wanted
was in the city hall lookup.
The men rushed to that place only
to find that they had been deluded.
BY that time the train was gone and
the mob dispersed.
Miitiamen on Streets.
National guard officers were calleH
on late in the day for assistance and |
a few militiamen were on the streets |
for a while. Extra precautions have !
been taken to prevent further rioting |