The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-10-08 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

LYNCHED BY MASKED NEGROES.  A despatch from Haftimore, dated the li4th ult., states Nicholas Snowden, a styliah-looking educated negro, was lyuched at Ellicot City, Howard County, at 2 o'clock this morning, by coloured men, for brutal treatment of a coloured girlate was arrested on Saturday and committed for trial. His victim was only 7 years old. A gang of eight or 10, masking their faces with cloths, handkerchiefs, and towels, drove up to the gaol without attracting any unusual attention. The gaoler, going to the window, asked who was there, and what they wanted. One of the negroes said, "We's got a prisoner we just captured up in the country. an' we want ter surrender him." As there was nothing unusual in this proceeding, the gaoler and hk daughter, aged 17, went down to the front rtior. As Boon as the door WAN opened,  . . . . the gang rushed in, the leader crying, "We jes' want ' Nick Snowden." The gaoler told them that he hail no right to surrender his prisoner, but advised them to go away, and the courts would see that Snowden got his desert... "Oh," said the spokesman, "that's all stuff. We've come here for 'Nick' Snowden, an' we're g'in' ter git 'im if we have to tear the house down." The gaoler's daughter, terrified at their language and appearance, begged her father to give up the keys, and he did so. The men soon found the cell occupied by Snowden. but none of the keys fitted the lock. After vainly trying to get the gaoler to give them the right key they broke open the door with axes. In the meantime Snowden looked on sullenly and undismayed, and when the door was forced open he quietly walked lOa of the cell into the corridor, where he was seized by two of the cY.wd and hurried downstairs. The lynchers took their prigmer along a ravine to a sequestered spot, known a.s "Cat lock," about 400 yards north .4 the gaol. There they hanged him to the fir hof a white oak tree. He neither begged for in y nor professed any sorrow for his crime. They lowered him three times to the ground before tl y tied the rope round the limb of the tree, and thoi left him dangling in tbe air.  The gocial Democratic leader Kunkel, while speaki • , ecently at a public meeting,spoke of the Prussian tary organisation not simply as an engine for ..lesale slaughter, hafts really chargeable with the murder of the population ce mmise. For venturing to entertain and express so unflattering opinions of one of the institutions of the State, Herr Kunkel has been arrested, and 'snow being prosecuted on a charge of high treason. On Saturday morning the officials of the London and Chatham Company discovered a respectablydressed man in one of the tunnels at Dover, with his bead cut off, having evidently been run over by a passing train.  Some months since, Holkar, while on a visit to Lord Dutferin. saw his lordship going through the process of cutting his newspapers and review. The Indian potentate asked for the ivory paper-knife, promising another in return. The prince returned recently to Government House, taking with him a young elephant. The animal had had its tusks shaped and sharpened, and between the Rajah's two viSitiCto Calcutta had undergone a training in secretarial work. When led into Lord Dufferin's presence, it t,iok up some newspapers with its trunk, Cut them, and placed them on a carpet in an orderly fashion.