WHOLESALE REVENGE.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2223, 12 April 1881, Page 3

WHOLESALE REVENGE.

The Philadelphia correspondent of the London “Times” telegraphed on February 20Ih that a terrible lynching crime occurred on Friday last at Springfield, Tennessee. Last September nine negroes murdered, with horrible barbarity, a farmer named Lagrade, plunder being their object. All were caught and confined in Springfield Gaol. One week afterwards a mob took two of them from the prison and lynched them, at the same time lynching another murderer confined there. Another prisoner, after confessing the crime, died in prison. Last week the trial began at Springfield, closing with the Judge’s charge to the jury. On Fridav the Court was closed, and the Sheriff started with the prisoners in his charge to the prison. A mob met him at the door and captured the prisoners. They then took possession of the Court House and hanged fire of them to the verandah at the Court House door. Two other negroes, who had turned State evidence, wore pursued during the night and killed. Thus ten murders avenged that of Lagrade. The mob of lynchers numbered 200. The five corpses dangled on the Court House verandah till they were cut down on Saturday. The Tennessee Senate yesterday unanimously passed a resolution condemning lynching, declaring that these mobs must be suppressed if it takes the whole power of the State to do it; calling on the Governor to arrest and punish the lynchers, and promising the active co-opera-tion of the Legislature,