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Show A FiOKRlBLK G'KIME AND SwiFT Vengeance. Yesterday morning a negro named John Sears committed a most brutal outrage upon the person of Miss George, neai this place, aud now (10.30 a.m.) his body is suspeuded by a rope to one of the trees in tho court-house yard. This is an awful crime, and a speedy and just retribution. retribu-tion. Miss George was picking berries ber-ries in the bu.-h, when Sears crept stealthily up behind, and seizing her by the throat, strangled her ui'til she could not stand or see. Then drawing a knife, he admonished her to keep still or he would cut her throat. He told her he had beeu watching lor this opportunity; had seen her but a lew days before, but could not get hold of her because of the che proximi y of others. He very modestly intbrmed her ''when he got through with her she could go where she pleased, and he would go to Kansas.' He tied a handkerchief over her eyes, threw her down, violated her person, and then fled. The lady sought her friends, told her sad and disgu-ting tale, and in one hour perhaps a hundred hun-dred men were in pursuit of Seais. He was arrested four miles north-wcat of town, and brought in last evening, at 6 o'clock, taken before a justice, and remanded by him to jail. Miss George identified Sears, selecting him from a number of negroes saying, "This is the man." It was with the greatest difficulty diffi-culty the crowd were restrained from hanging him on the spot. Sheriff Dodxon deserves much credit for his efficient measures in the matter, lie got Sears back into the jail, placing a guard around it to protect him. This morning at 10 o'clock he was biought into court lor an examination. The prosecuting wiui.-ss was asked but few questions, ller feelings were spired in a measure. She was not com polled to recount the disgusting details The Court was interrupted by the friends of Miss George and the citizens. An old, gray-headed man, (probacy her father), asked Miss George : "Are you positive this is the man?' She answered, "I am positive " Sears was then dragged from the court hou-e and hung to an adjacent tree. There is much confusion and excitement, and I doubt whether Sheriff Dodson, with six months notice, could have gathered a sufficient force in Henry County to have prevented the lynching of this fiend in human shape. I am opposed to mob law generally, but in this case our criminal law is not adequate to the ease. CUntou Cor. Ht. Louis Dem. |