| Show HANGED WIT A CLOTHES LINE Negro Boy Lynched for the Murder of a White Boy firooR flnuallty or lie tjnchf irloo Items tile Jai soil Ifting mail Minot tho Irionoler Salisbury Md May 20Garflcld King aged 13 was taken from tho Jail at this place early this morning hanged to n tree and almost shot to plces He was awaiting I trial on the chat goof go-of having deliberately slot Herman Kenney a vhlte boy about the same age nB himself The shooting wosdone on Saturday night last I and Kennev died last nlcht About 2 m fit a number of men frurn 1 the nelghboihood In which Kcnneyl I parents live rude Intel town anil demanded de-manded the lJ the Jail whit I Sheriff Dashiel refused to surmidcr The linchcrs then Make I the Jill doors down forced open the cel In w1kl King wan eonOnl ont drugged him out the negro all the while llghs Ing desperately and pleading for mercy A light clothe line was tied about his nock thrown over a limb and The unfortunate boy wa strung UI > I lie rope broke and he unconscious seemingly After Ijlng I In this condition I i fir a few minutes he regained his fee and made an effort to escape His captors cap-tors shot him through the Iwily 1 and beat and kicked him without mercy then plated the > rope around his neck nnd nUunn him up a second lime As he dangled In the air n volley of pistol bullets was fired Into his body which disappeared was left dangling while tlw lynche |
