Show Three ejrro Murderers Lynched MEMPHIS Maroh DThe morning light disclosed the dead bodies of three negroes riddled with bullets and partially covered with brush ling in an open lot about a mile and a half from tho heart of the city The negroes had been taken from jail by seventyfive masked men this morning and shot to death The names of the men are Calvin McDowell William Stuart and I Theodore Moss The crime for which this summary vengeance was wreacked upon I them was the ambushing and shooting j down Saturday night ast of four deputy I sheriffs in f locality known as The Curve while the officers were looking for a negro for whose arrest they had a warrant war-rant About 3 oclock this morning seventyfivo men all wearing masks appeared suddenly nn tnt strpfit near the jai Bv a ruse three men obtained an entrance to the jail yard and overpowered Watchman ODon I nell whom they bound and gagged The nel others were then admitted and search for negroes was begun guards in the meantime mean-time having been put over the watchman There were twentyseven negroes there all under arrest for complicity in Saturday nights affair and it was not an easy task to distinguish the throe negroes wanted They went from cell to cell thoroughly alarmed time inmates coming to the cell doors and unwittingly aiding thorn in the search Alice Mitchell heard the noise and from her cell on the upper tier peered down on the stranco and silent crowd Moss the mail canner the first man identified identi-fied was taken from his cell and bound and soon after McDowell and Stuart were found and taken care of in the same way The captives bolngroady taoy wore drag god pushed and hurried out of the jail la a few minutes the suburbs of the city were reached and In an open field near Wolf river the negroes met their doom A shot from a revolver crashed through the cheek of Moss This was the signal for the work A terrible volley was poured in upon the shivering negroes who instantly fell dead Their bodies presented a horrible sight McDowells jaw was entirely shot away and baok of his right ear was a bole largo enough to admit a mans fist His right T hand too was half blown off Stuart was shot in the mouth and twice in the back ot 3 I the head and his body was riddled with buckshc Moss bad a ear shot off and I several bul lot holes jn the forehead The mob turned about after it accomplished its terriblo work and coming towards town scattered and dispersed Pho hnia f ri brought to Walshs undertaking establishment establish-ment this morning In less than fifteen n minutes the place was surrounded by about twenty negroes all afraid to talk however how-ever on account of the proximity of the whites An inquest was held alit oclock and the bodies were then sent to their homes at the Curve At 10 15 word reached the city the negroes were assembling in large numbers at the Curve Judge Dubose Immediately equipped 150 men with Winchesters and they have left the city for that locality |