Show t tamed JM Walker Gill Armer and John itausom were lynched nine miles east of here lost night It is thought tbo lynching IB the result < of a quarrel between the oegrqes and whites several weeks ago Great excitement pr vate but thoparticu lrs arewofobtalnable 3 rtfKTHEK IMRTJCUIiAKS DALLAS JCeic Sept 6A 2V cs Paris TBJR special says At an arjy hour this morning a messenger arrived in tho city with intelligence that three negroes were I found hanging to a limb by the roadside nine miles southeast of the city Officers repaired re-paired to the scene of the tragedy and I found the bodies of John Ransom Jack I I Walker and Bill Armer three negroes well known in the neighborhood danglingfroru a tree Justice Hunt proceeded at once to bold an inauett The testimony showed that a party of twenty or thirty armed and masked men went to the house of Gilbert i Daniel at midnight seized Ransom put a I rope around his neck and told them they wanted him to go with them and show them where the other negroes lived who had been doing mischief in the neighborhood I neighbor-hood About 2 oclock the mob reached the liouse where Walker lived and forced an entrance acd dragged them both out placed rones about their necks and in company com-pany with Ransom marched them in the r direction of the woods Walker made a desperate resistance and shot at the crowd and it is believed hit one of the attacking at-tacking party as one of the men had blood on him Ho was overpowered however how-ever and taken away That was the last c known of them alive Tho bodies were found about daylight by a negro boy 4 AT met and Walker had their legs tied up their knees almost toucbIng the fr ground All died of strangulation and who did it Is not known but the work was 4 doubtless the outgrowth of the killing of the notorious negro desperado named Jar retBurns by John Ashley July 29 last LATE TONIGHT i a rumor reached the city that the bodies of three more negroes had been found in the woods not fr from the scone of the hang IllS riddled with bullets It cannot be Teritied The negroes are greatly agitated OVdr the affair and every one In the vicinity vicin-ity pf tho trouble is said to have left It 18 reported they have been holding a meeting in tap city tonight but how they viewed the situation cannot be learned as they Trill not talk People deplore the affair and the authorities are doing their utmost to ferret out the perpetrators of the crime It is feared there will be still more serious trouble before the end is reached |