Salt Lake Herald | 1902-04-07 | Page 1 | Hanged Him to a Tree

RANGED HIM Bud TO A TREE TREB Take Summary Vengeance on a Negro Lynchburg Vs Va April Car Carter Carter ter a 8 young negro who shot and sort wounded Don Thomas near New Glasgow In Amherst county Thur Thursday day night was taken from jail at Amherst courthouse last night just before mid midnight midnight night and lynched A party of men estimated at N and supposed to have come from the neigh ot of Cliffords seven away amy where here Thomas lives lIes rode into Amherst late last night AU All were masked or i had their faces blackened When Taller Jailer John Jones left the jail jali for his I home several members or of the lynChing party made Isle hlll surrender the keys The men secured Carter took him a half mile north of the village hanged I him to a tr tree C and fired but bul I lets Into his hlf body The shooting of I ITh Th Thomas n as by Carter was the result of an I I accusatIon said to have been made by bythe I I the former that Carter had bad set an out I house on fire He had ben been sent to jail to await the action of the grand I jury I 1 I