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LYNCH NEGROES AT MIDNIGHT. Mob Makes Short Work of Lyerly Murderers-Fully Three Thous and Men Took part in Lynching. A mob of 3,000 determined men, shortly before 11. o'clock Monday night. forcibly entered Rowan County jail, ati Salishiy, rIIove therefrom three of tlie six prisoniers charged witi the mu1rder of tihe I yerly family, at Barber Junet ion. .1iny 13. and lynehed then. Nease dnd Jolin Gillespie and Jack Dillinghaim, supposed to be the principals to the crime. were the vic tins of mob vengeance. Tlie remain inv negroes. Henry Lee, George Ervin and ( ella D hilingham, were not mol ested and liter to-night officers hu1r ried them off to ("reelsboro. The mob began gathering at sun down. Mayor Boydon promptly order. ed the saloons closed and, with other prominent citizens, United States Sen ator Overman, Judge Long, who was holding the special tern of Court to try the negroes, and Solicitor Hlam mer, gathered on the jail steps and ad dressed the crowd, which at that tim< numbered 2,000. ''liere were howls and cat calls from the mob, but for a time there was no move on their part They lacked a leader. While citizen were appealing to the mob, two met slipped through the crowd and werc entering the jail with hammers. The were discovered an(] ari'rested. Th<t inob contiued its yelling, biut ther was still no concerted move. About. 9 o'clock Mayor Boyden call ed npon the local military company the Howan lifles, for aid. They ap sembled quickly, but wer-e Sulpplie<, only with blank eartridges, having ml 01rders to shoot to kill. Viremanl Mc London, of Charlotte, a Southern Rail way employee, was shot in the stom ach by a bullet. said to have been firei by a member of the mob. le wa fatally wounded. Will Troiutimall a iegro dra.yma1n 11, was also serioulsl sho lt atboit the sailme tille. Both ar said to have bl avee identall, occasionl ed by somle of I le few wild shots fire, by Iembiiners of tile mob with tihe evi dnt iitentioin of tr*ighteninig c'itizmill At 10 Welochk i ler-e was a stir ii the mwh. It was auimetiiivied by lull 600 mllen, wht aine. it is said, frioi Whitetiy, where tihe Whitney Bed<li tion Company is developing tle Yar kin walter entraice. Tie great crow out side after their arrival whlen erowd of fifty. forming a sort < flyin'ig wedge, Imlade a br eak for t jail doors, overpilwered Ile oliee and effected all* entrn mice. The gref crowd outside surged in belid l t1 Is 4 , @ 0 CONi This leaders and in a few moments more emerged from the door with their vie tims. The negroes were quietly marched northward toward Spencer, but a halt was made at Henderson 's ball gorund, in the edge of town. There the'negrods were given time to confess the crime. They refused to either deny or confess aind] were so thoroughly frightened as almost to have lost the power of speeceh. John Gillespie wept piteously and begged for his life. Tiring of its efforts to secure statements f rom the iegroes. at midnight, the ropes were quickly brought forward and adjust. ed and the three were strung up to the limbs of one tree and with howls and curses the crowd riddled the dangling bodies with bullets. Bv 12 o'clock it was all over ai half an hour later nothing remainei of the immense throng that had pack. ed the streets but a few groups o: citizens discussing the lynching. I George Ervin was taken from th jail with his associates and closel clnestioned. Then the mob led hin back to his cell. Nease Gillespi< maintained his innocence to the end The other two would neither confes nor deny (lie crime. Ed Barber, relative of the murdered man, follow ed the mob with the prisoners to th seene of the lyuehing and pleaded wit (lie Into return the negroes to the jai and let the law take its course, bu them to retrun the negroes to the jai lhim not. Fireman McLendon, wound ed by a stray hall from the mob, wil die. His home is in Charlotte. H was simply an interested spectator o tie scene. The evrine witi which the negroe Were charged and foe which they wer placed oni trial at, a special term o lowan County Court, was the murde on tihe niaht of July 13th, at Barbe Junction, of Isaae Lyerly, his wif and two ehildren. Feeling ran high v tle tine an1d an effort was made t lynch tIe negroes. They were hurrie CINVaa 11111 brolught to Charlotte, whei they remainied until Sunday ni-h wheni they were alei to Salisbi for trial. Wediesday ni.-hi t IIIe comlnpanlies< Ohe Northi Carolina Nati(.nal Chuari IM O In pim 111d frioml Slatesvillv. n Conl a pany of infa11try1( and a hattery of a - yi ler from Charlotte, surlrouilded ti jail at Salisbury, Wilile sentries wil A loadled iuins and orders to shoot a kill patrol tle four streets that. fli f the prisol. Tlere have beCen thren e and rum11ors of threats all day and i s( to (le night, hul. there has been i it deollnoistration-only tle general fet e ing of disquietude and unrest. Crow, 0 *0*0*40*0*0*4 UJE4 ING 4D WILl [INUEA Week at ERRY B , e+ thronged the city's streets far into It Iight, but there is little liquor 11 idence and it is believed the worst is over. George Hall, the ex-conviet from Montgomery county, who is supposed to have led the mob which lynched the three alleged murderers of the Lyerly family last night, is in the jail-the plan to recue him from the clutches of the law. rumors of which caullsed Cov. Gleln to hurry troops tc Salisbury, has not materialized. The survivimg negroes, Henry Lee, Gcorg( Ervin and two women, are safe ir the jail at Charlotte and there is nc danger of violence to them. Th( special term of court which convenei to try the victims of mob vengeance acting under orders from the govern or, will not adjourn until every ef fort to convict the leaders of the mol has been exhausted. The case is beinj worked up and many arrests are ex peeted tomorrow. The governor i determined to push the matter to th< bitter end. The cases against the sur viving defendants, against whom tru bills were found, were continued un til the regular term of Rowan court. 4 Long before the sun rose curion i persons went to the scene of the lyncl - ing and cut off the toes, the finger 3 and ears of the negroes who were hun i to the limb of tle big tree oin Hendei 1 son's baseball ground. t 'Te bodies were badly mutilate b before they were removed. It look - as if a lot of sorry fellows. assiste by a few good citizens from the seen e of the Lyerly murder, did the worl When the court was convened thet i was a slight diminution in the crow< s i thou.- every seat was taken. Thei 0 was noticeable suffering written o f the face of Judge Long. his attitudI r was yet determined. but it was chanf r ed completely. His references Tuei e (lay to mob talk were always em t acterizing it. vaporings, and of ti 0 mllen most iterested here and m11o! d anxious to see the trial proceed, lie at 'C peared to fear violence less. His di 6 apqointnmeint and humiliation are coi y Illete. Tihe first thin.. dispateled was ,(intinnianee of the ease until tl Sre4unlari term. Caught Big Sword Fish. e 'rovidence Journal. l The biggest. swordfish that has be< o caught this season off Seaconnet w; k brought to the Seaconnet. Point wha ts Wednesday afternon in the big sa a-- boat T. A. B. by Captain Thomas 1o ihIell. To Peter Blockinger ieion I- tlie honor of first signtiug tle big fi Is :-nd of seiin- the harpoon into I +.,.++*'.+ >NS We he Ne N The by the the fac coal Ird leads b: week, us exi buy or LL coffeeb e tic ware v ornament BRDARF with such good aim and foce that an hour's struggle by the fish failed to wrest the barb from its side. The swordfish weighed nearly 225 pounds and was more then ten feet long from its tail to the tip of its long and hand son.e sword. With Captain Buell at the wheel, anld Peter standing in the pulpit, with eves on the sea and harpoon in redi Ivss for) quick work, the T. A. B. was propelled by, gas4lie engine and sail, while all hands kept sharp watch to see a big black finl and iail protrud in above the fater. Suddenly Peter sang out, ''There's one,'' and pointed to where not hiirty feet away and just to the right, a big swordfish lay mo tionless'at. the top of the water, fin and tail out, baking in the sun. Capt. a hIell steered carefully and the boat crawled towards the fish, while Peter ti stood ready with barbed harpoon ten feet long poised ready for a strike. When the pulpit was almost over the fish it swam to the right and com 3 meneed to sink slowly. Then with all the force of both strong arms Peter sent, the heavy harpoon solidly into the fish. His aim was true. The s double spearhead barb went directely back of the finl, the pole was shaken lose, the keg at the end was tossed' overboard and then and there was a _rraid sight. The bio fish dived down and the keg churned the water as the C - ;wordfish. stung by the barb, sought s to get away. Time and again the keg a went under after the rod was un c won(d. Then the fish started to swim - away and for more than a mile it e towed the keg with the T. A. B. keep , ing near. Finally when the keg show c ed that the swordfish had become tir n1 ed Peter set out in a rowboat to pick e up tlie keg and haul in the captive. He - tossed the ke.- into the small boat and - began gradually to haul in lie line. After the slack had been taken out e and tle fish felt the pull on the line it started again. Peter paid out the - rpe a few fathlioms anld then, with feet braced. stood up in the boat and - was towed along for neal-ly a mile, the bmat being sternt forem)Iost. Iie carefully pulled in and again i 1wed. At length the fish was hauled an the rowboat. Tt darted a w.Y and was played for a while. This was repeated several times, and aftt a while Peter pulled thte fish alongside m and slipped a noose of the rope over is its tail, thus ending the struggle. The rf fish was towed to the sailboat and I- I and lashed secureil to one side. .The A. struggle wi(h the big fish lasted more than ait hour. h'lie T. A. B. cruised h1 arotid anl hour (Ir so more but could it find nto m1ore sworidfish. 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