Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-03-09
TEXANS LYNCH OLD NEGRO
Fearing Trial Would He Postponed,
Take Matters in Own Hands,

Aake matters In Own Hands, %S
Dallas, Texas, March 4.-From the
very grasp OF the law, Allen Brooks,
an aged negro. charged with crimi-
nally assaultihg a two-year-old white
OF an angry mob of 5000 men yes
terday afternoon and hanged for his
crime. Brooks was seized i'm the
court room, where he was to receive
the laws Judgment, tossed through
a window to the main body Of the
mob, which waited like pack of
raving wolves for their prey in the
street below. His body was dragged
through the streets and hanged to
the Elk's arch above the heads Of the
avenging citizens. The mob was led
by an old negro.
With 1t all, hardly loud word
was spoken, not shot was fired and
above the dull murmurings of the
mob could be heard the aged negro's
trembling shrieks 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 three other
negroes held on charges Of murder.
They had been spirited away. how
ever, and after searching for them
in vain the mob dispersed.
The crime for which Brooks paid
the penalty was one of the most bru-
tai in the history Of the county. His
alleged victim Is the daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. M. l.. Buven. Immediately
after his arrest last week the negro
was taken from the city for safe
keeping. He was returned yesterday
and taken to the court house to await
the calling of his case in the crimi-
nal court. A great crowd gathered
early, and when attorneys for the
defendant, who had been appointed
by the court, began argument for a
postponement of the trial, rumors
started through the crowd that
change Of venue had been granted.
This statement caused one Of the
greatest demonstrations ever seen in
Dallas county, and the court house
was charged by the mob. Scores Of
officers, hastily summoned, were
overpowered, the locked doors of the
court room were wrecked and the
negro crouched in a corner praying.
This was In the second story of
the building. Outside the main body
OF the building the angry crowd was
waiting. rope with hangman's
AAcSSS "oo iCduS, anu "llCu IL was
announced from the window that the
negro had been taken, the rope was
thrown into the ROOM The moose
was placed about the prisoners neck
and he was pulled and thrown TO the
ground, fighting like tiger for his
life. He struck on the pavement on
his forehead, and 1t IS believed, frac-
tured his skull In the fall Of about
thirty feet.
instantly dozens of men jumped on
him with their feet and his face was
kicked to pulp and he was bruised
all over, probably dying within a
few minutes. A score of men seized
the rope and at the head of the mob,
and dragged the negro's body twelve
blocks up Main street to the Elks'
arch, where it was suspended to a
telegraph pole. The police cut the
body down in about five minutes.
After the lynching there were
cries to the effect that other negro
prisoners In the county JAIL espe-
cially two who had murder charges
pending against them. Barrel Oates
and "Blubber" Robinson, should be
hanged by the mob also.
A march was made to the county
Jail. The sheriff announced that the
hiSii "ahISu "SlS HOl lIlCTo, ana al
lowed committees selected by the
mob to search the prison. The ne
groes could not be found, but still
the mob could not be satisfied They
battered at the jail door with steel
rail until an officer fired a blank shot
into the ground In front of them.
The committee announced the ne
groes were not Ia the jail and finally
the mob moved away. 1t developed
that deputy sheriffs had taken the
two negroes out Of the city in auto
mobiles.
INnching Probe Formality
Dallas, Texas, March 5.-Judge
Seay, in the district court here to-
day, instructed the grand jury to in
vestigate the lynching yesterday Of
the negro. Allen Brooks, with view
Of indicting the mob leaders. 1t Is
believed, however, the investigation
will be formality, and there will be
no prosecutions. The militia have
been recalled and saloons reopened.
The city is quiet to-day.
Accidents will happen, but the best
regulated families keep Dr. Thomas
Eclectic OH for such emergencies. 1t
subdues the pain and heals the hurts.