The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-24
MOB STAMPS into
DIRT NEGRO WHO
KILLED JUDGE
Ex-COnvict Also Murdered Col
ored Woman Cook.
TOOK REFUGE IN SMALL HUT
Wounded Four Of His Assaiants Be-
fore Being Captured and Hanged
to Tree.

Nashville, Tenn, May 24.-Coming
to his door in his night clothing to
answer the cries for help from his
negro cook, Judge David Barry of Gal.
/ latin, thirty miles from here, was shot
and killed early yesterday morning by
a negro ex-convict known as Jim
Sweat, who directly afterward shot
and killed the cook. Posses were
soon organized at Gallatin composed
Of the leading citizens OF the town,
who found the murderer in an old
barn, from which they dragged him af.
ter four of the besiegers had been
wounded.
Silently the enraged white stamped
the negro almost to death in corn
field and then Strung him to the limb
ola tree.
Judge w J.. Cook of the criminal
court, who is now holding court in
Gallatin, adjourned it to go with the
attorney general TO prevent mob VIC
ence. but their efforts were unayail
ing. There were no witnesses to the
murder Of Judge Barry, but the circum
stantial evidence was conclusive
enough to the citizens to lead them to
take the law into their own hands
Monday night Sweat visited the neg
70 cook, Minnie Draer, at Judge
Barry's house and threatened her life
after he had renewed an old quarrel.
Judge Barry ordered Sweat from his
house, and the woman, fearing the
negro, asked permission to spend the
night in her employers home. This
permission was granted, and Sweat
left the house.
. AT o'clock yesterday morning
6 when the cook went TO the kitchen
: she saw Sweat on the porch with {
' single barrel shotgun in his hands HI
1 pointed the gun at the woman, WHIT
q screamed and ran toward judge
/. Barrys room Thereupoh Judg'
+ Barry, unarmed and in his nigh
/ clothes. stepped out on the porch, ant
4 as he did SO Sweat fired at him a
o close range.
The shot struck Judge Barry in tn
d pit OF his stomach. killing him instan
q ly. Sweat then reloaded his gun an
& putting it against the cooks ches
q fred and she fell dead. After con
a
n walked to the home of his father nea
. by, obtained a Swiss army rife an
70 supply of ammunition, and left wit
70 out saying a word about the doubl
- murder Thus armed the murdere
I crossed over some fields and too
m refuge in a barn not far from tn
ID scene of the killing,
* News of the murders spread rapid
- land posses were at once organized an
went in search OF Sweat He wa
IL found in the barn. and when the pu
n. suers appeared he opened fire on thel
ne slightly wounding four.
I Sweat held the crowd off for MOI
e than two hours before he was ca
n. tured. After it was thought that
n had exhausted his ammunition tW
Is Deputy Sheriffs entered the barn an
Ms dragged the negro out into the ope
of He was at once set upon by the me
nv and stamped about in the dust unit
nd he was almost dead, he was the
l." hung.
Sweat was a muatto, "a years oil
Some three years ago he was senten
ed to the State penitentiary on a mt
der charge, but after serving for
while was pardoned by Gov. Patters'
-, upon the recommendation of maj
w prominent citizens of Gallatin, amor
whom was Judge Barry.
raj Judge Barry was So years old.
ill was one of the foremost men in Su
rip ner County He was a son of d.
at Barry, cashier of the First Nation
ed Bank of Gallatin He leaves wi
EN- who was Miss Adelaide Wynne Of d.
to ton, Ala, a granddaughter of the Ia
ut Col. Alfred r. Wynn of Castali
ire Springs and two children.
be The shooting for which Sweat Sc
I'M ed a term in the penitentiary occurr
two years ago. AT that time he We
lei to Net Turner's home in Gallatin a
ich asked one of Mr.. Turner's servants
No. go to dance with him.
rip Because she refused, he shot h
cry she eventually died from her woun
rty Many prominent men in Gallatin
tilted that Sweat had a good char
ter. AS a result of their testimony
was sentenced to only year in
penitentiary and was afterward :
ZEN. doned by Gov Paterson