Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-02-15


U. H. Rigsby, except two, who wer,
munity. They arrived in the comm
lunching on motorcycle and camped
ing where they came from or what
alleged to have participated in the
have been traced to 0gletherpe, Idea
umbus, where their trail was lost. I
at Camp Benning, out on few days.
That the other accused men will
Ellaville, for, according to Coroner
all have farms. The officers decline
least some of them are arrested.
That the community is very much
stirred up and outraged over the
lynching, which many feel was un-
justified and unprovoked and has
given this usually law abiding county
black eye, and that the best element
IS determined that the lynchers shall
be brought to answer for the killing.
was the sentiment expressed to the
Times-Reeorder today by citizens OF
that community.
~oToHer speaks Freely.
Coroner Rigsby spoke freely of the
evidence brought out yesterday at the
inquest at which more than score
Of witnesses We're examined and in
which "the whole story came out. !"
P, He was asked whether it was estab-
lished in what way the negro viii
Jones, VINO was lynched, became con-
nected with the case of Mrs. John
DeVane and the negro Funnoy, who
is alleged to have insulted her on
the public road two weeks previous
" by asking her to ride in a buggy
with him. He said nothing to estab-
lish this connection was brought out
at the inquest. However, from an
other source it was reported that
Jones was heard to have made re-
mark about that case, which most
people consider entirely harmless
and which is believed to have caused
MIN to be visited Sunday night by
Bennie DeVane and John Harvey,
Mrs, DeVane's brother-in-law and
father, the sequel to which was the
wounding of both of them by Jones
as the latter ran frightened from
his home.
Jones lived several miles from the
scene of the Funnoy incident on a
farm on the Macon road occupied by
Mrs. Fulford, mother-in-law of Ben
ME DeVane. His remark is reported
to have been in regard to Funnoy's
conduct, he commenting that Fun
noy Should have stayed out OF trou-
bile; ! have always kept out Of trou-
Bile and he should have kept out, too
Just how accurate or inaccurate this
report is has not been definitely es-
tablished. but the harmlessness of the
reported remark, and its serious con-
sequences have served to stir the conn.,
munity against those who took the
law into their own hands.
Allen Tells Story.
DR.. j. r. Jordan, who examined
the negro Jones after he was brought
to Ellaville, testified at the inquest
he came to his death by gunshot
wounds. DR.. w. A. Reynolds also
gave testimony, and j. A. William
son, member of the board of coun-
ty commissioners, told of finding
Jones dying in the wood With him
at the time was Mayor Rogers VIII
liams, Of Ellayille, according to in.
formation reaching here. They had
gone to the country to look for the
negro's body when informed there
had been lynching.
n. T. Allen, a white man, living
in the neighborhood of the dead me-
gro's home, gave the most sensation
al testimony addueed at the hearing,
and it was upon this, it is stated, that
warrants were issued.
According to the story told the
coroner's jury by Mr.. Allen, the ne
gro, Jones after the shooting Sunday
night, came to his house and asked
for protection, saying that he had
shot at two men in his yard a short
time before. Who these men were
Jones did not say, and later in his
statement Mr.. Alien seemed not
so sure about what Jones really did.
say when he first came to his house.
Later Mr.. Allen carried Jones in
his car to the home of Lucius Hart,
q negro farmer living near Lowe To-
the Sumter county line, where Hart