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CARTER LYNCHING.HOW THKCOLORKD DF.SPKKADO WAS HCN’G IN GRKBN'BttlBR.Stabbed to death it Pl P!«sut—1 Prophet of Bril. Another Harder Mnttrj—A. Mia on a Raft—PriM Fight.The Greenbrier county papers, jaat at hand, contain full accounts of the lynching of John Garter, the colored man who ebot Coo6table Lntber Reynolds, in Summers oonnty, a brief mention of which appeared in the REGISTER the dav following the sbcotingand the summary vengeance of tbe mob. It seems that the authorities o; H uton bad been given a description of three negroes who had broken into a store at Coal Valley, with the request that they be arrested if fonn 1 in Hiotoo. Constable Reynolds identified Carter as cne of the parties described, and attempted to Utke him in custody. Tiie tegro resisted, and, drawing a revolver, commenced emptying its contents at the cflicer. He fired live shots, only one, tbe thiid, taking effect, tbe ball entering tbe breast, pissed through the body, lodging in tbe back, near tbe spine, inflicting, it was tb?n thongb?, a fatal wound. Tbe negro then started on a rnn for the river. A witness of the shooting, who was following the negro, seeing Rev. Mr. Suddetb, pastor of tbe Baptist church of that place, in the street in the direction in which the fugitive was going, sbcnted to him to intercept the negro, that ! he bad killed a man and that bis revolver was empty. The reverend gentleman, in 1 trying to comply with the request, drew Irum the negro tbe remaining «hot in his pistol, which fortunately missed its mark.A hi ort distance farther he was surrounded by citixsns, tut continued to flgbt until completely overpowered and bound. The desperate resistance made and tbe dyinc condition, us it wa» thought, of Officer Reynolds, who was very popular, exasperated many of thecit-z.'ts to such »n extent that mob violence wiis feircd by tbe authorities, and he was tskrn to Lewisburg, where he was deemed perffctly stenre.There wa* eonie little talk in Lewisburg Snndsy that probably the town would be visited by n mob from Hinton before morning, but no one gave tbe matter more than * parsing thought. On Monday moroirg. however, tbe citizens were dumbfounded to learn that it bad been there and secured tbe prisoner. It seems that about o’clock Monday morning the jailer, Mr. John A Pulliam, was aroused by three men, who stated that they bad a prisoner whom they wished to deliver into his custody. The jailer, not doubting the truth-t fulness of their assertion, wont with tbe j ul keys in band to tbo front door and ! opened it, only to ba contronUd with drawn pistols and a demand for tbe pri-oner. A signal was given, and 1 immediately tlie rest of the mob,• that bad been secret.d behind tbe picket fence and othrr places iiboot the jail, H'osn and rushed into the building* Mr. Dndl-y Pulliam, uncle of the jailer, r hearing the commotion, started down f stairs to see what was the matter, but I was intercepted when about half waydown by a leveled pistol and ordered back. The prisoner offered resistance, but a pintol was thrust at bis head and he was told that if be did not quietly submit bis brains would bs blown ont right then nrd there. A rope was placed around bis neck, his hands ti-d behind him. and, bare-footed and bare-beaded, be was led off | by the mob So ijnirt ar.d expedition* were tbe movements ci the mob that not a wjoI in town, save «he inmates o! the iail, knew nnjthing of tie occurence natil the mob had departed.Shortly after daylight tbo body nf tbe negro wa* fouud haogtng from a limb of a white o.'k tree near the rockcrnahtr, on the Li*iibiirg and R oc*vcrte Turnpike, about a mile from the f irmer place. His toes were within lighi inches of the ground, and death resulted from suaRgohtion, as he bad been j uMed from tbe ground by the rope being thrown over a limb.The ljr.cbinu wm accomplished with-cut any rfemonptalioa or unnecessary noise. The lynchers wtre marked and hod their clothes turned wroug side out They went to Leei-bnrg in buggies and wagons, reachirg there at 3 o'clock in the morning. They are, ai far as cin ba Icarntd, altogct'ur unidentified. There were but eleven men in tbe party.Constable Reynolds was not fatally shot, as wa« a*, iirat snppoeed, and will soon be on bis leet again.
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Wheeling Register
Wheeling, West Virginia, US
Mon, Jul 29, 1889
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