The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-12

0are nerf res, DUB we dare. for different ways of wfping out hu- man life. Killing sometimes seems wrong and sometimes right But, right or wrong and with one word or another tackled to it, it is done when a commu- nity wants to get rid of something dan gerous to it''
 Murder says the doctor. '1is nur- der-illegal kiIling-and you can't make anything else out of it or talk anything else into 1t I have committed no crime. I am not to be killed by you because you dare not in spite of all you say. outrage the law to that ex- tent,'
 And they looked each other in the eyes so long and hard that every one else in the schoolhouse held their breath
 Dare not9" says the pockmarked man. Dare not2 Yes, but we dare whether we dare let you go free.''
 Your defense of Iynchfng,,' says Dr. Kirby shows that you at least are man who can think. Tell me what I am accused ofg''
 And then the trial begun in earnest.
 The doctor acted as his own lawyer and the pockmarked man, whose name was Grimes. as the lawyer agin us. You could see that crowd had made up its mind beforehand and was only giv- ing us what they called trial to sat isfy their own conscience But the fight was betwixt Grimes and Dr. Kir- by the hull way through
 One witness was Heller that had been in the hotel at Cottonville the night we struck that place
 This man admitted himself that he was here to turn the niggers wtitess', said the witness
 Dr. Kirby had told sem what kind of medicine he was selling. We both re membered 1t. We both had to admit it.
 The next witness was the feller that run the tavern at Bairdstown. He had with him, fur proof, bottle of the stuff we had brought with us. He told how we had went away and left it there that very morning.
 Another witness told of seeing the doctor talking in the road to that there nigger bishop, which any one could of seen it easy enough, fur they wasn't nothing secret about it. We had met him by accident But you could see it made agin us.
 Another witness says he lives not fur from that Big Bethel church He says he has noticed the niggers was worked up about something fur several days. They are keeping the cause of it se- cret He went over to Big Bethel church the night before he said and he listened outside one of the windows to find out what kind of doctrine that crazy bishop was preaching to them They was all so worked up and the power was with 'em so strong and they was so excited they wouldn't of hearn an army marching by He had hearn the bishop deliver message to his flock from the Messiah He had seen him go wild afterward and preach an equality sermon.
 Then they was six other witnesses. All had been in the gang that lynched the nigger that day. That nigger had confessed his crime before he was lynched. He had told how the nig- gers had been expecting of Messiah fur several days, and how the doctor was him, He had died approaching and a-prophesying and thinking to the last minute maybe he was going to get took up in chariot of fire.
 Things kept looking worse and worse fur us. They had the story as the niggers thought it to be. They thought the doctor had deliberately represented himself as such. instead of which the doctor had refused to be represented as that there Messiah. More than that, he had never sold bottle of that medicine
 Then the doctor gave his own test, mony.
 "Gentlemen.'' he says. sssit is. true that came down here to try out that stuff in the bottle there and see if market could be worked up for 1t It is also true that. after came here and discovered what conditions were, I decided not to sell the stuff didn't sell any. About this Messiah business I know very little more than you do The situation was created. and blum dered into 1t. l sent the negroes word that I was not the person they ex7 pected The bishop lied to them. That is my whole story
 But they didn't believe him. Fur 1t was jest what he would of said if he had been guilty. as they thought him. And then Grimes gets up and says:
 ''GeatBemen, I demand for this pris oner the penalty of death.
 "He has lent himself to situation calculated to disturb in this county the peaceful domination of the black race by the white.
 ssThe negro who was lyTlched today might never have committed the crime he did had not the wild disturbing dream of equality been stirring in his brain Every speech, every look, ev- cry action which encourages that idea is a crime In this county, where the blacks outnumber us, we must either rule as masters or be submerged.
 .eThis man is still believed by the ne- groes to possess some miraculous pow CT He is therefoEe doubly dangerous