The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-03-04
COURT Is STORMED
And NEGRO MOBBED
Ten Thousand See Lynching
in Heart Of Dallas.
BODY PRESENTED TO OFFICIALS
-Four Others Escape Fate of ChiId's
AssaiIRnt Through Diligence of
Oners Away Before Door Is battered
I'm with Steel Rail.

Dallas, Tex, March 3--Spurred to VEN
geance as a sequel 10 a long series OF
brutal negro crimes, including murder,
burglaries. purse-snatchings, highway rob
berries, and finally the assault on a white
girl not quite two and a half years old.
the wrath OF q white mob was let loose
in Dallas to-day. Allen Brooks, the negro
who "a week ago attacked the child. was
taken from the District Criminal Court
room, where preliminaries for his trial
were being argued, and his fate was
soon sealed by the mob.
A mob had gathered in the courthouse.
AS the proceedings dragged a shrill whis-
tie rang through the big building, and a
hoarse, stalwart voice shouted: Come
on, boys"
The boys" came on. They swept dep
uty sheriffs and policemen 10 one side.
seis@-t Brooks, rushed him u a second
storg window. ana hurled him through
it. The negro piteously shrieked just
once in his fight. He was dead as he
hit the pavement. His neck was broken.
Ten Thousand View Corpse.
The mob dragged the llfeIess body half
mile through Main street to the corner
of Akard, fastened rope to a project
ing spike and hook in a post that formed
a corner OF the Elks arch. pulled the
body up, and for ten minutes exposed
it 20 the view of 10000 or more of the
people assembled in the streets. then
cut 1t down, placed it in a small express
wagon, drove the vehicle half a block
corpse to the city officials.
The officials later sent IL to the morgue.
The mob wore no masks and made no
pretensions 10 conceal identities or 20
shirk the task. The public is tonight
wondering what will happen when the
trial Of the Oates, McCune. and other
notorious criminals cases are called
within the next fortnight In the same
court. Dallas is quiet tonight. There IS
no danger Of further work Of the mob.
The four other criminals that it sought to
lynch were this afternoon hurried out
Of the Dallas County Jail, placed in au-
tomObiles with squads OF armed guards,
and rushed TO Fort Worth OF Weather
ford, before the mob that lynched Allen
Brooks could make the half mile journey
on foot from the Elks' arch to the Dallas
County jail More than 5000 determined
men assailed the county jail about 1
O'Clock and defed the fifty armed white
men assembled there 10 defend IT,
Search Jail for Others.
They parleyed long with the jail au-
thorities to be given Burrell and Bub-
ber Robinson. pair of negro murderers
Of Dallas; Frank McCue, a notorious Dali
las white man, charged with murders and
TObbeTies, and Hooper Senny, a negro
fend, placed in Jail het from Hopkins
County several weeks ago to prevent a
mob at Como from lynching him.
When the mob at the jail became con-
vinced the jailers would not admit the
presence of these criminals the mob took
steel rails for battering rams and par
TALLY smashed In the door and were fast
demolishing the brick underpinning of the
building Then dynamite was displaced,
and the stern declaration made that the
building. Then dynamite was placed.
stubbornness was persisted in. The jail
ers then permitted a committee of twenty
TO search the building. No prisoner de
sired by the mob could be found Than
the mob dispersed.