Double Lynching

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 75, 15 April 1937, Page 5

Double Lynching

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NEGROES TORTURED AND KILLED Had Disclaiiiied Charge oi Murder TORTURE INFUCTED

(By Teleeri'apli

(Received 15, 8.45 a.m.) HBW VORK, April 1'3. A inessage irbm Winoaa, Miisis- ' slppi, statbs that tWo nfegrotts Wero tbrtured afld lynched hy a mob bf a hufldred white ffibfl two hours after they had pieadea not guffty a the cftcuit cburt to a charjge of mutderiflg t white Moreii^eper. Botfl wero tied to stak^ Afld tortured With the ftaine of a hloWtorCfl. One died at the stake afld tfle other wds shot dead After Ihe terture afld the hbdy hffiflea. A tMrd negro suSpected bf cbraplicity in thb ffiurder Was leverely WMpped and chased froin the couflty. The first twb wbte takefl from Shbrift Wright and two dbputies Whbn Ibaving th© co'urfc hoflse bn route for the gadl. Thby were piaced in h mbtoi-bUs afld driven to the scene bf the fnUrffef whe're they werb tortured. A WitneSS said the negro eB weta chaiflbd tb t'rees inste'ad of sta'kes. Tht first when. tortured quickly confessed that he 'stood on gtiard during the, murde'r. He Was immediately xiddlCd with bullets. The sbcond Was tortured loflger afld the flames applied to his bare febt flfld cheSt hefore hb rep6ated a Coflfeasicn that he fired the ffltal shot. The inbb piled hruth about him up to his bhifl, saturated it with petroi and ignited It. Bbth cbnfetsions implicateid 'a thitd nef ro who was brbught spbediiy tb thfe scenb. On bended knees he cbflviflte'd the mob hb was not present dflriflg the murder, hut recbived part bf the money stolen frofli the sto're. He waS Whipped and bhased bflt of the cbflflty. One ei the deputies denied that ha rebognised anybne in the febh. Hb iflsisted they were behind him afld ha couid flbt sea them. It was latef stated that meflibers bf the flidh Seized th'o officers from beMfld Whefl bapiflring the negrbes flfld pinioned the bfficers' fltmS until the hus departbd. The fcheriff eidd thb negtb whb difed &t the stake had previdnsly boflfessed tb the murderi Bponsots bf "the Eederai Aati-LyflcM ing Bill pendifl'g ifl the Hoflse At Washingtbfl ufeed the occflrrence as afl &rgkmeflt in Sflpp'brt bf the meaSure. One Mississippi Gongressman inquired of a New York member urging the BiilV passage if it would also apply; tb gaflg. murders in his State.