ATROCIOUS NEGRO CONSPIRACY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3501, 26 September 1882, Page 4

ATROCIOUS NEGRO CONSPIRACY.

XTNCHING OF TIIE RINGLEADERS. A frightful negro conspiracy has been thwarted in Chocktaw, County Albania. A bundle of papers disclosing a well-organised plot among the negroes to kill the entire white population of that county was found near one of their rendezvous by two gentlemen, who laid the matter before a solicitor. On the 15fch a quiet meeting of citizens of Mount Sterling and Butler was called to consider the best mode of suppressing the intended outbreak and massacre. After discussion it was agreed that the ringleaders to whom had been assigned the duties of leading their respective squads to Butler and Mount Sterling, De Sotovillc, and other places, and killing all tha whites afc each place, should be arrested and lodged in gaol. Their arrest was effected on the 17th instant without disturbance or bloodshed. The same day a mass meeting of all classes of citizens was called for Saturday, to decide the fate of tho prisoners. Tho plot had been in existence since 1870, and the conspirators now numbered 400. They had powder, shot, and guns, and thought themselves sufficiently strong to accomplish their fiendish designs. Sunday night, the 17th of September, had been appointed for its consummation. The papers further Bhowed that this day wa3 selected because the wbito people would then be afc a camp meeting unarmed, and would offer no resistance. The meeting called for Saturday brought together about 700 men, an>ong whom were about 150 negroes, who, after hearing the papers read, by on almost unanimous vote decided that Jack Turner was a turbulent and dangerous character, a regular firebrand in the community, and that the public good demanded his immediate death. He was accordingly hanged at half-past 1 o'clock the same afternoon in the presence of the assembled multitude. The crowd then dispersed, and all signs of disturbance ceased. The other prisoners are still in gaol to await the further development of affairs.—Post correspondent.