WHOLESALE REVENGE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3097, 1 June 1881, Page 4

WHOLESALE REVENGE.

'-mien' of the nil' •' 1 >at a i, i occurred on the -•."vi ■ i-'li- at. Springfield, I a°t »e t Miiber nine neg ">c. murdered, with horrible barbarity, a farmer named Lagrade, plunder bcin« their objet. All were caught and con lined in Springfield L'aol. One week afterwards a mob took two of them from tha prison and lynched Ih "iv». nr the same lime lynching another

r.nrdeivr confined there. Another pri-s->:ier, -.i.ter confessing the crime, died in prison. Last week the trial began at Springfield, closing with the Judge's charge to the jury. On Friday the Court closed, and the Sheriff started with the prisoners in his charge to the prison. A mob met him at tuo door and captured the prisoner, then took possession of the Courthouse and huuged five of them to the verandah at the Courthouse door. Two other negroes who had tarried State evidence were pursued during i.-o night and killed. Thus, ten murders avenged that of Lagrade. The mob of lynchers numbered 200. The fiv;corpses dangled at the Courthouse verandah tilt they were cut down on Saturday. The Tennessee *-enate unanimously passed a resolution condemning lynching, declaring that these mobs must be suppressed if it take .ho vfljule power of the State to do it ; calling on tho Governor to arrest and punish the lynchers, and promising the active co-operation of the Legislature.