Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-22
POSSE SURROUNDS
NEGR0AT SEAT ORD:
ANOTHER BURNED
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Armed Mob of 600 Seeks
Man Who Broke Jail
at Easton.

WILMINGTON, Del, June %
Isaiah Fountain, a negro, convicted
for criminal assault upon a thirteen
year-old white girl in Trappe, Md.
was surrounded early today in a
woods near Hebron, Md, by an arm ed
posse of approximately 900 persons
Open threats were made against his
life and officials fear they will not
be able to hold the posse in check
should he be captured.
Fountain twice escaped from the
Easton. Md, Jail. He was convicted
on April 10 and sentenced to be ex-
ecuted. A few weeks later he escaped
but was quickly captured at Seaford
Del. He got away again last We'd
neSday night and since then posses
have been searching the countryside
in all directions.
Shortly before midnight last night
the posse surrounded him in "a swamp
near Laurel. Del. but the fugitive
succeeded in breaking through the
net. a short time later the negro
was again cornered in the Hebron
woods and it was said his capture
was only a matter of hours.
When the posse entered this state
from Maryland it comprised only
about 200 persons. but every town
tional members until the number has
been tripled.
Burn Negro Slayer.
SAVANNAH. Ga, June 22.-Chased
by infatuated citizens, officers OF
three counties and track hounds for
the last week, Philip Gathers. the
negro slayer of Miss Anna Jaudon,
near Rincon, was captured yesterday
near StilSon, returned to the scene OF
the crime near Rincon and lynched
When it became known that the mob
would take the prisoner to Rincon to
rut him to death The news spread and
hundreds reached the scene.
The negro is said to have acknowl-
edged his guilt.
Arriving al the point where the body
of his victim was found, he was
chained to a sapling. gasoline poured
over him and a match applied AS the
flames enveloped his body he made a
powerful lunge, breaking away from
the tree. At that moment hundreds
of shots were sent into his body.
Girl Was Gathers Victim.
SAVANNAH, Ga, June 22-The
crime charged to Gathers was the
murder of Miss ANA Jaudon, seven
teen years of age, who had been in
Savannah and was returning home
for the week end. Finding no one at
the station to meet her she started to
walk the two miles to her fathers
house. Her father telephoned to
Savannah Monday to learn why she
had not come. Being told that she had
taken the train for home Friday
search was instituted. The body was
found in the woods near the road
within 500 yards of the home. Tracks
in the sand on the roadside indicated
a struggle.
Gathers was missing from his home.
For week he evaded posses. officers
and hounds. lodging out of swamps to
procure food and disappearing again
Posse Hunts Slayer.
MILLEDGEVILLE,G Ga, June GA
posse, composed of scores of men
from Baldwin. Wilkinson and Jasper
counties, is searching the Oconee
river swamps for Tom Ray, a negro.
who early yesterday shot and instant
~ killed De Witt Faulkner. a promi-
nent farmer of Baldwin county.
DULUTH, Mimi. June 22-Two
white men, charged with being mem
bers of the mob court" that tried
the six negroes in the city Jail be-
fore the lynkhing of three of them
here last week. were arrested today.
Thirty witnesses of the lynching
have been subpoenaed by the special
grand jury now sitting in the case.