the best methods by which religion, science, law and political power may be employed to excuse injustice, barbarity and crime done to a people because of race and col

ctim's guilt, and being of the "superior"

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The three first were lynched in the city of Memphis for firing on white men in self-defense. This Negro, Richard

. The body was suspended from the first limb of a post oak tree by a new quarter-inch grass rope. A hangman's knot, evidently tied by an expert, fitted snugly under the left ear of the corpse, and a new hame string pinioned the victim's arms behind him. His legs were not tied. The body was perfectly limber when the Sheriff's posse cut it down a

quest. The Squire had his jury with him, and it was agreed for the convenience of all parties that he should proceed with the corpse to Germant

est people of the Collierville, Germantown and Forest Hi

ho carried him before Mrs. White. She said: "I think he is the man. I

ces against him. The committee returned and made its report, an

ution were invited to cross over to the other side of t

crime, followed by the mob. The rope, with a noose already prepared, was tied to the limb nearest the spot

was a matter of purchase, he claimed, and said the price paid was twenty-five cents. He warned the colored men present t

Constable Cash to one side, asked if he could not save the Negro'

he Negro's neck. No cap was used, and Neal showed no fear, nor did he beg for mercy. The mule was struck with a wh

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bia with them on Monday. In the meantime the mob at Denmark, learning Peterson's whereabouts, went to the governor and demanded the prisoner. Gov. Tillman, who had during his canvass for reelection the year before, declared that he would lead a mob to lynch a Negro that assaulted a white woman, gave Peterson up to the mob. He was

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girl. After the birth of the child, the mother disclosed the fact that Edwards was its father. The relationship had been sustained for more than a year, and yet this colored man was apprehended, thrown into jail from whence he was taken by a mob of one hundred neighbors and hung to a

tood full well the character of the relationship which existed between Edwards and the girl, but when

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same agency acquaint the world with the fact that a Negro youth who was lynched in Tuscumbia, Ala., the same year on the same charge told the white girl who accused him before the mob, that he had met her in the woods often by appointment. There is a young mulatto in one of the State prisons of the South today who is there by charge of a young white woman to screen herself. He is a college graduate and had been corresponding with, and clandestinely visiting her until he was surprised and run

at city October, 1894, that she had been stealing for some time, and that to cover one of her thefts, she had said she had been bound and gagged in her father's house by a colored man, and money

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emphasizes our demand that a fair trial shall be given those accused of crime,

oves to be a base canard. The correspondents who went into the details should have taken the pains to investigate,

th idea of frightening the Negro out of the country and thus balancing accounts. The town was considerably wrought up and for a time things looked serious. The accused had a preliminary hearing today and not an iota of evi

t the expense of innocent childhood, a br

of rape against the Negro, are like the foregoing, but the same crime committed by white men against Negro women and girls, is never punished by mob or the law. A leading journal in South Carolina openly said some months ago that "it is not the same thing for a white man to as

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s. Illinois, which gave to the world the immortal heroes, Lincoln, Grant and Logan, trailed its b

h was arrested and put in jail. A white man testified that Bush, on the day of the assault, asked him where he could get a drink and he pointed to the house where the farmer's wife was subsequently said to have

e lynchers though the names of over twenty persons who were leaders in the mob were well known. In fact twenty-two persons were indicted, but the grand jurors and the prosecuting attorney disagreed as to the form of the indictments, which caused the jurors

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her own race. They held her escort and outraged the girl. It was a deed dastardly enough to arouse Southern blood, which gives

Two hundred and fifty white citizens armed themselves with Winchesters and guarded him. A cannon was placed in front of his home, and the Buchanan Rifles (State Militia) ordered to the scene for his protection. The colored mob did not show up. Only two weeks before, Eph. Grizzard, who had only been charged with rape upon a white woman, had been taken from the jail, with Governor Buchanan and the police and militia standing by, dragged throu

same jail for raping eight-year-old Maggie Reese, a colored girl. He was not harmed. The "honor" of grown women who were glad enough to be supported by the Grizzard boys

pon another colored girl that she died. He was not punished, but an attempt was made i

ted rape on Mattie Cole, a neighbor's cook; he was only prevented from accomplishing his purpose by the appearance of Mattie's employ

was assaulted by white men. Her father went to have a warran

d sentenced to death in one day. In the same state at Danville, two weeks before-August 29, Thomas J. Penn, a white man, committed a crimi

he confessed to her aunt, Mrs. Alice Bates, and the white brute added further crime by killing Mrs. Bates when she upbraided him about his crime upon her niece.

seldom or never that capital punishment is invoked. Two cases just clipped from the daily pape

was today sentenced to be hanged. Young criminally

on his daughter Fanny on July 29 last, pleaded nolo contendere when placed on trial at East

ctober, and sentenced to ten years in prison. He was white. Indianapolis courts sentenced a

few hours before the lynching three reputable white men rode into the town and solemnly testified that the accused Negro was at work with them 25 miles aw