Show TRIED CONDEMNED AND HANGED IN TWO HOURS I NACOGDOCHES Tex Oct IS Jim 18 Jim Buchanan Buchan n. n colored the murderer of or the the Hicks Hick family was tried here yesterday yesterday yester yester- da day a plea pIca of or guilty guilt was accepted by b- bythe bythe the Judge and the negro ti nag ns as legally hanged within two hours after arter sentence had been passed Buchanan was wa brought h here re the protection of five companies of ot militia Upon his arrival here th the negro was Immediately turned over to Sheriff who told the people that he ho would be he given a speedy trial The town began belan to fill rapidly and the excitement c was tas Intense The telegraph telegraph tele tele- I graph wires were ivere cut the railroad tracks were torn up for a short distance and It was announced that an attempt would be he made to get posse possession lon of or B Buchanan fl The Thc District court was at once convened con con- venell ened a jur Jury was as Impaneled without delay and the negros negro's plea of ot guilty was accepted by the court The Judge ordered that the tho ileath sentence be ex executed executed ex- ex November lith but hut man many people announced that they would have no dela delay i Buchanan then waived the tho thirty lays days allowed him by law las and abd was hanA hanged d db b by Sheriff In the Jail yard ard In inthe I tho the presence of ot a large Inre crowd Ten Teti da das da's n ago o the dead bodies of or Farmer Farmer Farmer Far Far- mer Hick lila wife and daughter were found In itt the Hicks home and Sheriff Sherif I be began nn a larch s for 01 or the tho mur mur- derer A wc week k later latel Jim Tim Buchanan was wa arrested and al confessed sed to o the murdel mur mur- del dec The news new of the negros negro's confession lon spread r rapidly and a mob of several hundred people marched after th tha tho Sheriff and hi hll his deputies with tho the Intention Intention tion ion of or securing l i s es lon of or th the negro neArO I and burning him at ot the stake Sheriff and hl his deputies refused to toI give over lh the prIM prisoners prisoner cr and later th were Joined by Sheriff Bowers of ot St. St Augustine county The two officers through a R. ruse finally succeeded In Ire spiriting the negro away to the parish Jail at Buchanan was next taken to the Jail jS at Hen Henderson cron and a company of or militia was ordered out to protect the negro from violence A mob formed and It was feared a collision with the troops would result In serious blood bloodshed hed Two more companies of or militia were dIspatched dispatched dis die patched to Henderson on and nied to today a hen shen the negro came to this he was guarded by hy live five companies of or mIlItia |