HANGED BY A MOB.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1168, 1 November 1883, Page 1

HANGED BY A MOB.

Farther despatches are to band confirming the revival of lawlessness>nih the Southern States of America, A report from Warfrace, Tennesee, says; “ Last night a party of a dozen.Or more disguised men went to the house of a white woodchopper named, Clinton, living four miles out on a iShelby.ville farm. They broke the door down, and carried him and his wife out in .different * directions about 400 yards from the house. They then made Clinton bare his back and kneel down, :when four of the men gave him four blows each with a hackberry bush. His back ;r to-day presented the of raw beef He says they also beat his wife. Before going away they warned him to leave the neighborhood in twenty-four hours, Clinton has been accused, of keeping disorderly women about his house. A party of masked men -falsi) - . Visited the , cabin of a negro who lived. abdil§ a mile from town this morningi ‘before daybreak, and, having made him take his tilings out, burnt it. His wife was sick, so they took her out and laid her under a tree on a pallet; Subsequently a white neighbor came and took 1 her to his home.” ‘ A despatch dated burg, Mississippi, August ‘3, says : “On Tuesday last Captain t D. W. Pressell, one of the most influential citizens in Mississippi; was arrested at Mayersville/ Mississippi; charged with outraging the,person of Julia Neilson, a girl of nine years. Yesterday, h'a trial took place before Justice Boot, and the young girl ' having testified to Pressell’s guilt, the prisoner was remanded to gaol without bail, to qwait the action of the Grand 1 Jury, Asl he was about to b# taken from the Court to bis confinement in the County Gaol, he exclaimed, ‘ So help me God, I am not guilty of the accusation;’ The greatest excitement prevailed throughout the town and county; and even though. Captain Pressell was guarded in bis cell by a special posse of officers, the gaol door was battered down,and the pjispnertaken from its precincts with a rope around bis neck. He was placed i;i ; a cart and surrounded with about 500 infuriated citizens. While .jjgoing to his doom he pleaded for his' life,' and attempted to I 'bring his once powerful influence to intercede for his pi election; That all , : to < no' u purpose. About a mile 1 and and *a ; half from the County Gaol he was driven 1 under a monster oak ; the rope around his neck was' thrown across the nbarek and stoutest limb/iand he ; was, hpifted in mid air. 1 He ! breathed 1 -his 'laltAmidst most sickening Convulsions’/ l iit i ‘T2,3o last night. Captain Pressell wak'isixtyfive years of age, and brother-in-law to Judge Gifford, Cnngressinari ;i e!ect of the Sixth District. This taidkes the second case of lynching in Isaquena County in the past six weeks. An lowa paper maintains that Prjs'gsell’g offence was that he was a Republican, and hod helped Republicans to win s big i part of Mississippi. I