JUDGE LYNCH AND NEGRO BRUTALITY.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4644, 22 November 1883, Page 2

JUDGE LYNCH AND NEGRO BRUTALITY.

New Yobk, October 15.—A negro^ named Lewis Woods was tried add convicted at the last term of Court for crimi* nally assaulting a coloured girl, but es*caped from gaol in less than a week. After his escape he committed the same crime on'a white lady, which so enraged the people that everybody turned out to pursue him. He, together, with another escaped convict —a white murderer named, Martin—was finally captured by a sheriff in Texas, and they were taken on the train for Lake Charles. When they reached Edgerley station, however, a large crowd had gathered. The sheriff threw a quilt, which was in the car, over Martin, so that the mob saw only the negro. They seized him and dragged him a short dis« tanco from the depot, where they chained him to a tree and covered him with' pine* knots and chips. The pile was then lighted. The agony of the man was so intense that his horrible cries and shrieks could be heard a long distance. After he was dead the crowd started for the gaol to get the murderer Martin out, but the sheriff had secreted him. *■

Chigago, September 23.—1n the northern part of Sumter county, in the Bull region country, a burly brutal negro named Dick Singleton, who is of immense-size, assaulted a little white girl named Bettie Dickson, the daughter of a highly-es-teemed planter. The girl who is 12 yei]rt| of age and intelligent and attractive, was' in the company of an elder sister, bflttiei: 1 borders of a piece of woodland* where'they' had gone to gather grapes. The'elder sister, who fought with almost superhuman strength to protect the younger sister, was stabbed by the negro. At first it was supposed the wound was not darigerous; but, later developments indicate thati.:, it, f U probably fatal. The negro.who isi married,. fled to his cabin and made ho farther effort; to escape. Last night, about two hours after -the crime, a sufficient Lnumberiof citizens had been,notified and a meeting was held. It was resolved wituout a dissenting voice that the negro should be shot," They mounted their,horses; and;{withou|f masks, rode quietly down to the negro's house, surrounded it, took him out to the scene of the outrage, tied him to a tree, riddled him with bullets, and left the bodyy tied to the tree. The little girl lies in » precarious condition and will probably die.