The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-01
MOB AT CHAPLIN
LYNCHES NEGRO
SLAYER OF NOAH FRICK PUT TO
DEATH.
Overpower Officers
Hundreds of Shots Fired Into Body
of Will Allen-Remains
Left Behind.

Cudplu, aug. L4.-"ll Ill Alien, ne
gro about 60 years old, was shot to
death by mob of about $50 men two
miles from Chaplin at 2 o'clock this
afternoon for the killing of Noah F.
Frick, highly respected farmer, late
Tuesday. Immediately otter Mr..
Frick had been shot, a posse was
formed and searched for Allen begun.
He was known to have gone into a
swamp after the shooting, and all
last night and throughout today un-
til Allen was found crouching in a
ditch, the search was kept up.
Though armed with Winchester
rifle, the weapon with which Mr..
Frick was killed, Allen made no ef-
fort to resist the officers. He came
out of the ditch with his hands up.
Heber L. Meetze found Allen in a
ditch about ten feet wide and eight
feet deep. The negro was hidden by
underground. Officers Foy, of New
berry county, and Rural Policeman
Koon, of Richland county took charge
of the prisoner. They were joined
Immediately by Sheriff Roof, of Lex
ington and several other officers and
private citizens. These we're on their
way to their cars in which they in
tended to take the negro to the
penitentiary for safe keeping when
the mob with masks on their faces
took the negro from them. Allen was
led a quarter of mile away and
killed.
An inquest was conducted later in
the afternoon by Coroner Weed, of
Lexington. The verdict declared that
Allen came to his death from gun
shot wounds at the hands of unknown
parties. -.
Late today the body of Allen was
still where it fell. Negroes are said
to have declared their intention to
let it remain unmolested.
Hundreds of shots were fired into
Aliens body, the head and chest be-
ing largely shot away, while the en-
tire body is literally shot into a shape
less mass.
Aliens rifle was jammed, and but
for this people here believe that
members of the searching party
might have been shot. One cartridge
had been snapped but failed to ez-
plode. The rifle then had refused to
eject the snapped cartridge.
Allen had with him bag contain
ing a pone Of corn bread and a glass
of jelly. He bore bad reputation in
the community, even with his own
race, and is said to have once been
tried for killing another negro.
Coroner Weed this afternoon also
held an inquest for the killing of Mr..
Frick, the verdict of the jury being
that Mr.. Frick came to his death from
gunshot wounds at the hands of VIII
Allen.
The funeral of Mr.. Frick will be
held at Mt. Hebron Lutheran church
Thursday morning at II o'clock, con-
Quoted by the Rev. ]. NJ. Senter. In
terment will be in the church yard.
Deputy Sheriff H. c. Oswald stated
today that the report printed in the
morning papers to the effect that
Allen had remained on the porch OF
his home for several hours after the
shooting yesterday afternoon with
a gun in his hands defying the otflcers
was incorrect. Mr.. Oswald says that
he arrived on the scene in about an
hour after the shooting and that Al
len had already left the house when
he cot here. r. W. Eleazer, T. ..
Stoudemire, J. L. Eargle and George
Hitler made the same statement.
is striking index to pubic sentl-