Show J I NEGROES T HANGED 10 TRU a 3 1 i I Tiptonville Tenn Scene of r Lynching After Victims q Had Been Sentenced s k j 3 fARCE F FY ARCE PRECEDED TRAGEDY i t 41 J i Y rs ft f fi p i COLORED MAN HAD KILLED t J j SHERIFF e ij 1 B Union City Tenn T nn Nov XO 24 The little p j t fawn wn of bordering g on Reel t foot t lake ake which has been the scene cene d 1 Of many man stirring Incidents the tIle past pasts s j i witnessed the lynching late this th who were j I t d ot ol three negroes g I rested this morning morn III for tor murdering Y j i r Special Deputy Sheriff Richard Burruss and fatally wounding John a clep dep I 1 t sheriff sherin The negroes were Marshall 1 i t r Edward and Jim These brothers created a disturbance 1 t a religious us meeting me ting near TIptonville 1 a t night and when the officers j attempted to arrest them a light fight en Ih sued In which the negroes shot hot the of ot officers fl i cers and ami made their escape I Ij j I Posse Poss Soon in Pursuit i i it It t was barely daylight Sunday morn I iI I c ins WJ before a posse of ot citizens from TIp TIptonville tonville llo and surrounding places were in InI i pursuit but they the successfully ue eluded I the white man n until 8 s this morn I nS ng when they the were surrounded ami atri In u it swamp swam near the village of I The vicinity y Is known as t the old river bed canebrake and It If Is difficult to trace man or beast through r jy Its Us tangles Once captured however 4 the negroes covered by b a hundred gun gum gumy y f a were finally landed In jail at Tipton u llIe The negroes when arrested had hadr r two to wo guns In their possession but had rJ out of ammunition t l News of ot the capture spread rapidly to toi i the surrounding territory and am in addi addition tion to the several hundred hund ed members of ot oti i I the posse pose men began arriving by givers every ever 1 j road and ancI soon the Jail was surrounded surround l by a mob which had no hesitancy In threatening a lynching quickly and fj C Surely Burely flu reI 1 r Appeals to the Mob One lOne of ot the first citizens to mount the he heu u K steps of the jail and md make an appeal to toa 0 I a the mob was J I 1 Burnette a well fil known lawyer er Mr Ir Burnette recalled J the recent night rider outrages which I Lt had disgraced the vicinity He admon admonished l I i his hearers h aren not to do anything l desperate but to let et the law Jaw take Its course although at the same time i 4 promising full Justice would woud be re done the f three black men This met with growls of ot disapproval and Mr Burnette seeing his hig remarks were of ot no avail pleaded with the men If It they were determined to lynch the negroes to wait walt till night nightfall nightfall fall fa II Taylor Ta lor Hall Halt a brother of ot the injured deputy leput sheriff therin followed Mr Burnette He said in effect that a postponement of or the lynching until tonight would be satisfactory The mob was relentless and it was ryas evident that it would be Im Impossible Impossible I possible to stem the tide f t feeling I Semblance of Trial As a last resort S J Caldwell Cadwell a townsman and Sheriff Sherif Haynes Harnes went be before b blore before fore lore Justice Davis and explained the situation telling o ot of the menacing atti attl attitude attitude tude of o the crowd which thronged the I principal streets leading to the jail Justice Davis at once agreed to open his court at 5 summon a jury of ot twelve men and allow the negroes after all aU the evidence that could be ad adduced adduced adduced was heard to be duly dul sentenced to loath death Meanwhile Governor Go emor Patterson was advised by b telephone of ot the situation and ordered a company compan of militia in this city to proceed with all aU haste and if f possible secure the negroes and conduct them to a place of ot safety The troops were started at once but failed to ar arrive arrhe arrive rive rhe In time to prevent lynching Penalty Fixed at Death At the trial tria the evidence of ot those who had seen the killing was heard and in inan Inan inan an Incredibly short time the case was given to the Jury who ho in a few minutes returned a verdict of guilty fixing the penalty at death The sentence had barely been passed on the three negroes when the mob with a whoop hoop and a yell ell swarmed the thc courtroom and seizing seli lg the prisoners rushed them to a large tree near the edge of o town and hanged them firing volley after volley oUe Into the air as the bodies were drawn up from the earth I |