Show A NE NEW W SOR SORT T OF OP CITIZEN A new sort of citizen has bas been developed by hy the law abiding men of Charlotte N. N C. C who having murdered a negro by lynching were so BO proud of their bloody deed that a Coroners Coroner's jury hastily impaneled impaneled im im- un- un paneled indorsed the crime b by r returning this verdict verdict ver ver- dict We Ye the jury find that Torn Tom Tones Jones came to tobis his bis death by gunshot wounds by ly parties unknown to the jury obviously by bJ an outraged public acting in n defense of their homes wives daughters and children In view of the enormity of the crime committed com corn mUted by said Tom Torn Jones we think they would have lave been recreant to their duty as good citizens had they hey acted otherwise It is seldom that a jury jur even evenin evenin evenin in in North Carolina openly assumes responsibility bc for a lynching and applauds the But when a l legal gal body actually declares the unlawful killing of a criminal to be he an act of good citizenship it commits almost as great a crime against public morals as the scoundrel upon whom vengeance was taken This new type of citizen will soon become a hissing and a word by-word in North Carolina The State cannot afford to claim such men as its own and the best repudiation would be in the way of prosecuting I this notorious jury as an accessory after the fact to the tIle murder of the negro criminal |