The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-24
AT
 FORT SMITH
NEGRO WHO SHOT CONSTABLE TAKEN FROM JAIL AND HANG
 ED ON PRINCIPAL STREET.
Mob of Five Hundred Mete Out Sum mary Punishment Within Two Hours After Negro Had Fatal
 Ny Shot Officer Carr.

Fort Smith, Ark, March 23.--The first lyndhing in the history of Se- bastian county. Arkansas. occurred ats negro was hangeS 0y mob of more than 500 white men on an electric light pole on Garrison avenue, in front of local hotel
 The lynching followed the shooting Of Deputy Constable Andy Carr, who is believed to be dying in St. Edwards lntrmary, from a bullet wound in- tlicted above his left eye
 Carr was snot down at the Pony Express company's stables at Tenth and A streets, about two hours before the lynching. Before the shooting De- tectiyes Pitcock and Jarnigan arrest ed a negro and negress for quarrel ing at Tenth and Garrison avenue. The negro jerked away from Pitcock and started to run away Williams, who was with Carr at the time, start ed in the pursuit of the negro with Pitcock At Ninth and A streets, Williams said Pitcock, after firing | wild at the negro several times, gave ] Williams his gun. Williams pursued l the negro to the Pony Express Of flee, where he says he knocked the | fugitive down with his revolver. The negro rose to his feet and started in
 an opposite direction, according to
 Williams Before Williams could turn around to take up the chase again
 he saw Carr reel and fall. Williams
 says he beat the negro until Officer
 Lacey arrived He turned the pris
 oner over to the officer and tool | Carr to the hospital.
 Lacey and another officer took thu
 negro to jail followed by bis crowd Immediately the mob form
 ed. Jailer Stansberry hardly ha'
 dime to lock the jail doors when tn mob broke down the frame barricad l-abont the place and started for tn | prison Seizing a big timber, the mol began to batter at the jafi door. Mo
 mentarily the mob grew in ntimber:
 until a thousand persons had gather ed within a short time While some | jeered the police, a handful of off eers who stood quietly by, others cheered the mob, which was batter 1 ing at the steel door leading into the lOiuONtIs NAltIc tHt hcSAO NdS NpH fined For an hour and half the mob tried to batter down the door Becoming discouraged with thei' efforts to break down the door, the mob began prying off the bars of the window In a few minutes the bars yielded from the weather-beaten win. dow frames and a half dozen strug- gling men jumped through the open ing and into the holdover for tine black man, who had extinguished the gas fire in his cell and sought refuge in dark corner.
 Striking a match, the mob found him on his knees pleading for mercy. He was thrust through the window, where he was showered with blows. A rope was brought forth and the crowd, amid piercing yells, started across the court house lawn and Il through Main court to Garrison ave nue.
 When the electric light pole was reached, the negro was a bleeding mass of torn humanity. Men jumped on him and kicked him. Half dead but yet pleading for mercy, he was strung up to a cross-arm while the frenzied mob cheered Their work done, the mob dispersed, leaving the negro hanging.
 A bulletin issued at the hospitai tonight by Carr's physicians say he cannot survive.