The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
I.op,rED JAIL AND D<A
COMPLICATED IN MUIR
~ SHERIFF MORELAND.
i; RIODlED WITH BULLETS

S RDOLtD Win DULL
l.ten From the Worth County
~ Who Had Prisoners For
~ Eosring. Were Loaded in
bmObiles and Taken Away
uosroes. taken by a mob from
o rtS county jail at Sylvester
az night, were found Friday 1!naS
. hanging to the same limb
\ with bullets at sarksville, Lee
! The negroes were Fellx
bis sons. Frank, Dewey ana
lake and Rodius Seymour
bodies we're found by citizens
/ oountv who were out on the
0.rIv Friday, apparently under
Inrossion that there was reason
lave that if any of the negroes
4 oten from the Jail they Woulo
H. IN Lee county, where Sherlff
knd was popular. Going out
sarkville a short distance they
ltered the CHASTITY scene OF the
b. hanging to one limb within
lew of the road. Apparently
had been strung up and then
L targets for the men VINO had
them from jail.
ynching was the result OF the
n Of Sheriff Moreland, of Lee
who was shot to death at the
of Felix Lake, near Doles, in
county a few weeks ago while
bting to make an arrest.
|oner Ford, of Lee. county, i'm
IA Jury to investigate the
hg. After making an investi-
\ the jury returned a verdict
4 lows. We, the jury, find that
kgroes came to their death al
Ands Of unknown parties from
IlatiOn and gunshot wounds.
Sdreds of persons from the sur
ng territory went to the scene
lynching Friday morning.
kr storming the Worth county
BID taking the prisoners from
bells the mob, in eight or ten
bibles, drove through the
+ " to the Oakfield ferry. They
4 rove on through Leesburg and
fksville, where the victims were
4 up,
Sheriff Locked in Jail.
Riff L. A. Potts of Worth coun-
d % negro prisoners were left
in the Worth county Jail, and
bob leaders took the Jail keys
Them. Some time later a men,
i the sheriff's family, aroused
h his continued absence from
went to the jail and found him
in.
d lynching was well planned
Eecuted, and the members of
sOb-abOut 40 or so in num-
from Terrell and Lee counties
| out their assigned duties
slt a hitch.
S;15 o'clock three white men
handcuffed negro appeared at
il door in Sylvester and asked
Potts to take charge of their
ner' telling the sheriff they
PhcerS from another county en-
through the country with the
and that their automobile had
Il down near town. The sheriff
ed them to the jail office and
lot the papers for the negro.
uld 50 two of the men grabbed
ERIN from behind, pinioned his
70 his back, tied him fast, took
Us and pistol and locked him
Mob Quick With Work.
UIo u mob leaders then took
negro 'decoy" to the main cell
"neFe he pointed out the four
anu seymour as the negroes
wanted. They were marched
lelf cells into the corridor and
'lVf 70 prisoners left behind
again locked up.
8al this time several automo-
nat mad been driving back and
a'Ound Sylvester began to turn
Tue Jail. They picked up the
LAKES Seymour, the decoy
II and the three Jail raiders
. out Of the town toward the
ua Lee county. Not more than
'8s mad elapsed between the
y the Jail of the raiders and
's' departure.
N.Y. n.y. 'ne mob tarry by the way
'Haln an hour the cars had
4e Oakfeld ferry. 1t took
n ! ~s for the ferryman to get
across, but by 1880 to
'eock they were on the road
lucy passed through Lees
V' 1870 o'clock and reach
''lle a short time later. The
vas over and the mob men,
- Oack at their homes before