| Show ItO A Negro Who Shot W V Yn Vii Chief of ot Iollie Lynched I W tV f Va Yn July Brooks a negro was lynched tonight being hanged from rom the limb of ot a II true tree tr u In Inthe tho the city park Brooks Brooke shot eliot and fatally wounded Chief of ot Police Lilly who ivha sought to arrest him for tor a ills dis disturbance The Tho negro was chased a amile I amile mile by hy a 1 crowd and captured He lie fought desperately but could not miot get fot getaway getaway away aWa was handed over ocr to tho the sheriff to be taken to the county count Jail Just ns ilK the negro arid and tho time sheriff sherll reached the lie prison doors a mob of ot men inca menat at nt least strong strone surrounded the om officers cers cerK and demanded the prisoner The Tho sheriff and l refused and made madere resistance re but bu t to no mio avail Brooks wan seized and ami rushed rush 1 through the streets towards the city park When the park was reached tho time thomen men who were leading Brooks told oh him to walk vait up 1111 under n a 1 big bl shade tree In Inthe Inthe the time center of oC it the lie park anti prepare to todie die Ille The negro could not anti seemed Ie em cd almost Insensible to what was wall going on eu Time The rope was drawn up U II and ami andIn in a few ow minutes the time body Jolty wall sva swung from fran rom the tree lifeless Then tho the mob moh I dispersed Hundreds of men and women conic come later hater and all l viewed the thc body bod Tho The body hod of ot Brooks late tonight was still hanging In the tho park |
