The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04
Negro Criminal Is Taken from
 Courtroom and Hanged
5000 PERSONS IN CROWD
Sheriff k Powerless 10 stop the Mob Who Try 10 Get others in Jail But the officers Take Them
 10 Another Town


 Dallas. Tex. March s.-From the very grasp of the law Allen Brooks, an
 aged negro charged with criminally as
 saultng a 1o-year-old white child, was torn by 15 determined members of an angry mob Of 5000 men from his cap- tors today and hanged for his crime.
 Brooks was seized in the court room,
 where he was to have received the laws judgment; was tossed through
 a window to the main body of the
 mob which waited like pack of raven
 ous wolves for their prey in the street
 below. and his broken body was dragged through the streets and lie
 was hanged to the Elks arch, high
 above inc heads of the averaging cit
 izens.
 The mob was led by an old negro. With 1t all. hardly a loud word was spoken not she was fired, and above the dull murmurings of the mob could
 be heard tic aged negro's shrielSs for mercy.
 After Brooks was hanged for nearly three hours Dallas was in the hands
 of the mob. The Jail was stormed and
 death was threatened to other negroes held on charges of murder. The lat
 ter had been spirited away, however, and after searching for them in vain
 the mob dispersed
 Tine crime for which Brooks paid the penalty today was one of the most
 heinous In the history of this coun- lty. His alleged victim is the daugh- ter of MT. and Mrs. M. J. Buven. Inn mediately after his arrest last week the negro was taken out of the city for safekeeping. He was returned early this morning and taken to the courthouse at daybreak to await ssle calling of his case in the criminal
 court.
 Great Crowd Gathers !. A great crowd .gathered early and { wAee a.torness ,f thu defendaut.s4sh
 had been appointed by the court, be-
 gan arguments in behalf of d postpone
 ment of the trial until tomorrow, ru-
 mors started through the crowd that
 change of venue had been granted
 This statement aused one of the
 greatest demonstrations ever seen in
 Dallas county and the courthouse was
 charged by the mob. Scores of off
 cers hastily summoned were over powered, the locked doors of the court
 room were broken and the negro, crouching in corner in prayer was
 seized by the leaders of the mob. This scene was in the second story of the building Outside the main body  with a hangman's moose was ready and wh en 1t was announced from the win
 dow that the negro had been taken the rope was thrown into the room. | The moose was placed around the neck | of the prisoner and he was pulled and thrown to the ground fighting like | tiger for his life. He struck on the pave | ment forehead first and it is believed fractured his skull in the fall of about 30 | feet.
 | Instantly dozens of men jumped on him
 with their feet. His face was kicked into | a pulp and he was bruised all over, and probably died within few minutes A score of men seized the rope and at the head of the mob dragged the negro's body 12 blocks up Main street to the EllSs arch. which was erected during the Elks' national convention here in 1908,
 where 1t was suspended to a supporting telephone pole.
 Body Is Cut Down The police cut the body down in about five minutes. It was taken to the city hall and later turned over to an under taker.
 After the lynching of the negro there were cries to the effect that other negro prisoners in the county jail, and especial lu txyo xxrbo I,otyo t.,.Jor elor ing against then, Burrell Oates and "Blubber' Robinson, should be hanged by the mob also.
 A march was made to the city jail. The sheriff announced that the men wanted were not there and allowed committees | selected by the mob to search the prison.
 The negroes could not be found, but still the mob could not be satisfied. They bat tered at the jail door with a steel rail until an officer fired a blank shot into the ground in front of them. A committee
 announced that the negroes were not in the jail and finally the mob moved away. It developed that deputy sheriffs had taken the other negroes out of the city in automobiles and report by wire said they had passed through F ort Worth en route to Weatherford. Tex. The mob announced plans to board a train and pursue the automobiles. and while they were at the station making such arrangements a report was started that one of the negroes wanted was in the city hall jail.
 Then the thousands of men of the mob went to that place. searched the building, but did not find the negro. By that time | 1t was late In the afternoon and the mob dispersed
 National guard officers were called on this afternoon for assistance, and few militiamen were on the streets for d while
 | Extra precautions have been taken to prevent further rioting tonight.