Show NEGRO MURDERER LYNCHED ue slew a farmers family and was overtaken and killed deeon miss dec 10 charlie jones the negro who on wednesday murdered mrs brown smith her four children near this place has been captured and lynched by an infuriated mob wesson miss dec 10 full particulars of one of the most fiendish crimes ever recorded have just come to band almost the entire family of brown smith a respectable white farmer 35 years of age were brutally killed with a club in the hands of charles lewis a black fiend th was working at aaen a few miles from hi home which ie situated about two and a half miles from pearl river on the baet bank in lawrence county a wild country the house is of uw main road and no white family elivea within two acilee of it although several negro families live near it was one of these who on wednesday some time between noon and dark crept up lo 10 smiths house and most brutally assaulted mrs smith then brained her and then to forever hide hie crime be tried to kill the children only sparing a babe which he left un t ached the fiends work was not done as well as be ht for one of the children a girl five years of age re kalled consciousness and wian her father returned she told him the came ol 01 the brute the mother and four children were found dead in the yard their condition showing how they had struggled to escape the brute A posse wag organized and late yesterday the a was captured carried to cello the county beat of lawrence county and at 7 was carried back to the scene of his crime where be was fully identified by the bittle girl it is eald h was promptly lynched after the identification by a large crowd cf infuriated cit zene who had joined in the search it is greatly feared that a wholesale lynching may take place ill that neier horwood as the country is excited to the highest pitch |