Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-04-08 | Page 17 | Negro Lynched by Mob At Lawrenceville, GA

NEGRO LYNCHED BY MOB AT LAWRENCEVILLE, flA. Sheriff Knocked Senseless While Parley. Ins With the Rlng-leaders. Rlng-leaders. LAWRENCE, Ga.. April 7. Shortly after midnight a mob of 200 masked men stormed tho Jail bore and secured a negro. Charles Hale, arrested earlier In the night for attacking Mrs. C. C Williams. Wil-liams. The mob hanged tho negro on a tree and riddled his body with bullets. While Sheriff E. S. Gnrncr was parleying parley-ing with tho mob's ringleaders in the yard of the Jail, three others slipped behind be-hind and dealt him a heavy blow on tho head, rendering him unconscious. They then secured his keys and Hindu away wllli (he prisoner. Mrs. Williams' husband, a young farmer, was away from home when thy negro slipped Into the housu yesterday aftiM-noon and seized her.