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I I . VICTIM OF NEGRO I SEES HIM LYNCHED j | Johc Hartfield Hanged and Burned 1 , at Place Crime Was Committed. Ellisville, Miss., June 26.?Trailed j -for ten days through three South t Mississippi counties by posses which i included several hundred members s of his own race, John Hartfield, ne- c :gro, confessed assailant of an Ellis- i ville young woman, was captured,! ^desperately wounded, near Collins at t ^daybreak this morning, rushed by au- (1 tomobile to the scene of his crime, i Jianged to a tree and then burned to i ashes His victim witnessed the $ lynching. jc While negroes took no part in the s actual lynching of Hartfield, posse I leaders" freely admitted they render-1 ed valuable assistance during the chase, knowing when they enlisted i that it was intended to lynch the fu- c - 1 V 1- - 4. J HT v _gicive wnen ne was captuicu. manj a. of them witnessed the execution. !r The lynching was conducted in a I manner which the authorities charac-, "terized as "orderly." Guarded by a 11 committee of citizens of Ellisville, i* Kai- Jieid was taken first to the of-.a fice of Dr. A. J. Carter, who, after'a ovum {notion n-f tninshnt. wmmHs rp-,.^ ceived when, the fugitive made his a fight against capture, declared the c negro could not live more than 24 i*1 hours. In the meantime a group of j silent men were piling crossties and ^ brush in a depression in the ground * .near the railroad. " ia i c The victim of Hartfield's crime ^ "was escorted into the physician's of- . ^ AA Ja Kaon nv_ I ucc dibci ilia wvuuuo iiau uvcu va- atmined. She positively identified him, -as her assailant. When she left the * 6 negro she said to the committee, ""You have the right man." Then there was a auiet conference 1 on the part of members of the com- 11 mittee. Reports were circulated that 0 there would be a burning at 5 o'clock. ? This story gave way to statements that there would be a "hanging at Uie big gum tree." Hartfield was told ic whnt flip orr>wH intended doinc with I him, but only . repeated, "You have 0 the right man." Later he said he P knew he was going to die and de- ^ clared he wished to warn "all men, ^ "white and colored, to think before 'doing wrong." ,n TT LC_1 J i. 1.1 1. _;! _1 D xiarcneiu was not ut*en w jau, although earlier reports were that he a iad been lodged there. From the r doctor's office he was taken to the ? tree and faced the crowd. "You have ^the right man," he repeated. ^ Then the noose found its way around the neck and the trip to the J 3>ig gum tree was started, the crowd r*H!l nminmislv silent. ^ It was under the big gam tree that r "Hartfield forcibly detained his vie- *? Tjtko all of the night of Sunday, June It waa under a limb of the same :fl itree that Hartfield was hanged as -.soon as the rope could be pulled up: %y hundreds of hands. Then, the first; <temon$tration brqke out. While the ! body was in its death struggles, pis- -v tols were fired point blank at the;* swinging form. Before the rope had ? been cut by bullets, burning fagots ^ *were thrown under the body and an E 'hour later there was only a pile of ashes. P "The victim, with her aged mother,' *?atnessed the execution. When she ~ * TOk&eii her home two hundred yards j11 " < aW^ -fche was informed that more i11 than a ^feousand dollars had been j subscribed for her use by persons in, ? the crowd. No arrests were ma8eI - after the lynching and tonight the j ilitfle town was quiet. Most of the j ^ 'vicit#vr? fmm the surrounding coun- 11 " t try-' left if or their homes. * Petitions to Governor Bilbo to pre-,8 4r?rtt the threatened lynching brought s - -t&^reply from the executive to the ef- p lect that he was "entirely powerless" . .as the State had no rtoops. "Further-1* more," the governor was quoted as|^ ^saying, "excitement is at such a high s "pitch through South Mississippi that -any attempt to interfere with the * mob would doubtless result in the j . nf linnHr?>Hs of nersoris. The 1 ^UVttVJllU VA AAWAAMA - _ _ ^negro has confessed, says he is ready I to die and nobody can keep the in- f evitable from happening." j{ Hartfield's capture was accompl- * ished largely through the work of the ] famous Gantt bloodhounds, brought.J yesterday from Crystal Springs. A ? /boy asked by the negro to purchase ] -food at a Collins store, informed the1 ^authorities and the dogs were taken -it? the place where he was last seen, j' "Uhe trail led to a school house at Hot ! lOnffee. near Collins. Hartfield was; made and on sight of the posse open- > >sd fire. His ballets went wild, but Walter Crawley and Will Rodgers, | farmers, managed to get close ^enough to fire two loads of buckshot through the window, striking Hartfield in the breast. He surrendered and was taken in charge by the posse. Rigid examination, according to -the authorities, showed that Hartfield | lhad little or no help during his flight, j Constant rains which wiped out his, 3rail prolonged the chase. ( 3RAISE FOR FRENCH < IN WILSON S GOODBYE iVhile Prospect of Going Home is ! Delightful it is Painful to Leave France. Paris, June 26., (By the Associ- 5 ited Press).?President Poincare to-1 light gave a dinner to President Wil- \ ion and all the delegates to the peace c ;onference. Mrs. Wilson accompan- g ed the president. jc "I thank you most sincerely for|t he words that you have uttered," i President Wilson in responding to an j f ddress of M. Poincare said. "I can,t lot pretend, sir, that the prospect of j J joing home is not a very delightful js me but 1 can say witn tne greatest, c lincerity that the prospect of leaving d France is very painful to me. I "I have received a peculiarly gen- t ;rous welcome here, and it has been h >leasing for me to feel that that wel- r ome was intended not so much for, ( nyself as for the people whom I r epresent. | c "I feel that my stay here, sir, has s enlightened both my heart and my 't nind. It has enabled me personally s o see the evidence of the suffering'! ,nd sacrifices of France. It has en- o bled me to come into personal touch rith the leaders of the French people t nd through the medium of inter- S ourse with them to understand bet- f er. ic "Sometimes the work of the con- s erence has seemed to go very slow-! C ? indeed. Sometimes it has seemed h s if there were unnecessary obsta- les to agreement; but as the weeks ave lengthened I have seemed to see lie profit that came out of that. Juick conclusions would not have roduced that intimate knowledge of A nrki/tk T fVimlr VfeOO I <X\Zll ULX1C1 9 iiltllU WlilV.ll J. VUIIIO. uue ome out of these daily conferences. "The six months have been six lonths which have woven new fibres f connection between the hearts of ur peofije. And something more han friendship and intimate symathy has come out of this interourse. "We have finished the formulation f the peace, but we have begun a T UAIIATTA ban UX tvupciatiuxi miivu & uchc* c rill broaden and strengthen. . . . Ve shall continue to be coworkers in asks which, because they are comaon, will weave out of our senti- . lents a common conception of duty nd a common conception of * the ights of men of every race and of 1l very clime. If it be true that that t ias been accomplished, it is a very j'J Teat thing. jr "As I go away from these scenes think I shall realise that I have >een present at.one of the most vital hings that has happened in the hisory of nations. Nations have form- ' d contracts with each other before, >ut they never have formed partiierhips. They have associated, themelves .temporarily, but they have lever before associated themselves " ermanently. "The wrong that was done in the : raging- of this war was a great rrong, but it. wakened the world to a Teat moral necessity 01 seeing, tnat : was necessary that men should i and themselves together in order ( bat such a wrong Should never be s erpetrated again. ,c "Merely to beat a nation that was S rrong once is not enough. There 5 lust follow the warning to all other r lations that would do like things i hat they in turn will be vanquished t nd shamed if they attempt a dis- 1 lonorable purpose. ^ "You can see, therefore, sir, with a srhat deep feelings tnose 01 us wno * lust now for a little while turn away c rom France, shall leave your shores, i ind though the ocean is broad it will 1 eem very narrow in the future. It , vill be easier to understand ^ach oth- t r than it ever was before and with t he confident intercourse of coopera- t ion the understanding will be , * - ? - ?3 I trengthenea mio acuoxi anu acuun vill itself educate alike our purpose . ind our thought. j "So, sir, in saying good-bye to j France I'm only saying a sort of i, physical good-bye, not a spiritual ^ood-bye. I shall retain in my heart j 1 X1? -Pool inrrc whirll thft . ilWciy 6 Wie wax in generous treatment of this great people has generated in my heart. And [ wish in my turn, sir, to propose, as ;, you have proposed the continued and j increasing friendship of the two na tions, the safety and prosperity of France, the closer and closer communion of free peoples and the strengthening of every influence which instructs the mind and purpose of humanity." The bashful bachelor on the 5th floor recently encountered a neighbor, a young mother, and, wishing to be neighborly, asked, "How is your little girl, Mrs. Jones?" *?TVT,r ia miitf* well. I iujf A1VWAW ?/Vj *M n??. w thank you, Mr. Smith," replied the J proud mother. "Oh, it's a boy!" exclaimed the , bachelor in confusion. "I knew it was one or the other."?Harper's Magazine. IREENVILLE WOMAN jl ACCUSED OF ARSON. | Mrs. J. W. McFar!and Charged With Setting Fire That Destroyed Five Buildings. Special to The State. Greenville, June 27.?A sensation vas created here today by the arrest j >f Mrs. J. W. McFarland, college j praduate, author of a published book j >f poems and former city school j eacher, who is charged with complic- j ty in starting the fire that destroyed j ive buildings on Rhett and Pendle-1 on streets here last night. That < >Irs. McFarland is demented on the ubject of fires is the belief of j Iheriff Rector, who stated that in ad- p lition to the confession he claimed! < drs. McFarland has made to him! j hat she started last night's fire, he las evidence to show that she was esponsible for the burning of the ? Colonial Apartments about twoj< nonths ago. Mrs. McFarland in the;k " 1 L J?1:_ J I en tonignt empnaucany uemeu umi., he had confessed to the setting fire < o the Rhett street buildings. Friends j aid Mrs. McFarland was asleep and hat they waked her when the fire .1 ccurred last night. I( Prominent persons have interested : ^ hemselves in Mrs. McFarland's case.: Ihe comes from a prominent Georgia i amily, it is said, and taught in the I ity schools here, having married a ( rkMior in fhp Thirtieth division in'. Jreenville in the fall of 1917. Her. ( usband is now in France. | I c?Utko mattM H mm w - H with theiB. Probably U'? B 3 5g "worms". B t 1 DR. 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