Show HANGED BY A MOB NEGRO PAYS PENALTY FOR SEVERAL new orleans feb 17 thomas jackson a negro was lynched today at st peter twenty alles mlles above this city for a series of crimes this morning he visited the home of alex ander boergers Bou the engineer of the drainage machine on Belle poni plantation some distance from the planters house lie told boergers Bou the manager wanted him and the engineer mounted the tricycle with the negro jackson stabbed the engineer in the back and threw the body into ditch he then returned to the house and butchered mrs boergers Bou and her two boys and ransacked the house two boya visiting the family md in the after the negros departure the boys went to st peter and gave the alarm returning with a mob of several hundred men the negro was tracked to his home and fully identified by the was banged and his body riddle with bullets before the sheriff arrived |