Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-31
c0BDELE NEGRO MET DEATH
1T HANDS OF ENRAGED MOB
Ianv lnt Of Town Men FIOCkGd to Help Hunt Town and
Punish Criminal
IRfPr HAMMOND, NEGRO GUILTY OF
ASS ASSAULT, WAS LYNCHED YESTERDAY
MORNING IN CORDELE--W WAS IDEN-
TIFIFD BY YOUNG WOMAN WHOM
He OUTRAGED.

Albert Hammond, the negro who
q, oultv of an assault upon a
DOnnp white woman employed at the
ROrdeIe telephone exchange, was tax
), from the Crisp county Jail and
Arcbed by a mob yesterday morning,
hcording to reports received from
aerif J. H. Ward, of Crisp county,
&sterday by telephone.
4 Hammond was captured about Il
Rcock Monday night by Sheriff Ward
sbd Chief of Police Sumner, of Cor
seIe and taken at once to the county
NiI There he was held until the
nob formed yesterday and took the
akgro frc mthe jail, which was guard
d by Sheriff Ward and his deputies.
berff Wa~d made a calm, deliberate
Alk to the members of the mob and
|hged them to let the law take its
s5urse. but this was of no avail
N #Tt is believed that there were more
Man three hundred men in the mob
lat stormed the jail and made their
By with crowbars through two steel
& bOrS of the Jail building before they
seached the cell where the negro was
fRnfned Nearly an hour passed be-
be entrance was gained to the cell.
hammond never confessed the crime,
4 he, in company with another ne
10 held under suspicion, was taken
MfOre the young woman and posi-
#eIy identified before he was strung
q. by the mob In fact he was pretty
pFoaghIy identified first by being
Hsscribed to the young woman. then
ter by being actually brought be-
"a her.
IA number of the members of the
RPb We're from Rhine, little town
Ssar Cordele, which was the home of
~ young woman who was outraged.
leSe neighbOrs of the girl came 20
SRTdeIe and joined a large number OF
RPpe from Cordele and the sur
e lndng section of Crisp county.
pen ne had been taken from thF
Hammond was carried just out
tne city limits of Cordele along
F roadway of the Seaboard railway,
ere he was strung up to a sweet
81 o tree in the heart of the negro
fton Of the city and his body rid
q with bullets, His body was
er taken in charge by the coroner
Z hammond. the negro offender, was
'oyed at livery stable. situated
P'J Jhlrty yards from the telephone
mango where the young woman
Neo. He was, therefore, familia"
Il the hours when she left for her
# lie and with the fact that she liv-
# IN tne outskirts Of the city. 1t is
N '"aJ at the time the outrage was
'"Dued, about 6 o'clock, the girl
Oh ner way to her boarding place
na'lhg just been railway sta
@ 70 old goodbye to her mother,
! "dd oeen on visit to her. She
SeI1ed by the black brute when
''' IAe distance of block of her
'7 her condition yesterday was
'''eu as much better and it was
mat she would soon recover.
LIE young girl is described as be-
VI small and delicate size, but OF
'u"I beauty Her age has been
'eo as fourteen and sixteen
. Oot it seems from intelligence
''u Yesterday that the latter es-
,e' 'nat of sixteen years, is real
tue correct one. A fact that ha,
'V'aeInhered by the friends oi
yVung woman is that her faths,
''IIed by negro about two years
Sr;s, o'uIng to reports received fror
H. 9 ward Yesterday, the mob dis
o.o-,. o Immediately after they hat
ouPIished their work and the in
! excitement that prevailed up /,
NJ, 'v soon subsidized. Conditions
uOFmal order and quiet had beer
OIed before the noon hour yester
'O'olng to reports received.