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THREE NEGROES LYNCHED.Shot to Death and Thrown In the River.Another blot has been cast upon the fair name of Mississippi, and a crime as brutal as it was inexcusable has been done the name of misguided justice.Our readers will remember the report in these columns last week of the clash of whites and negroes near Midnight, in which the negroes fired upon the whites and wounded a horse belongin ; to one of the latter. Three negroes were arrested and brought I) Yazoo City. They were (', K. Reed, Minor Wilson and Willis Boyd. The two negroes who were the ring leaders in the trouble made their escapo. The n.-grots who were under at rest were brought to Yazoo City and placed in Jail, Their offense having been committed in Sharkey county, Sheriff Johnston held them subject to the order of the authorities of that county. Friday evening Deputy Constable Silvester arrived in Yazoo City to take the prisoners back to Sharkey County. They were turned over to him and taken on the steamer Rescue, which left here for Belzoni Saturday morning.The details of the lynching are hard to learn at this writing, but the best information at hand iato the effeot that the negroes left the boat at Silver City, and were lynched near that place. Whether the officer voluntarily left the boat at that place for tho purpose of going through the country to Rolling Fork with his prisoners, or whether they were forcibly taken off the boat at that point by the mob, does not appear. It is reported, however, that the negroes fell into tho hands of the mob at that point, were taken into the woods, shot to death and their bodies weighted with cotton ties and thrown into the river.So far as can bo learned the members of tho mob are not known.That tho work of tho mob was a cold-blooded and dastardly murder, no law-abiding citizen will undertake to deny. So far as can be learned, there was no evidence that the negroes had any direct connection with firing upon the whito men in the previous trouble alluded to. If there was evidence to implicate them, the heavy hand of tho law could have been laid upon them and proper punishment for such offenses meted out to thorn. There can be no paliation for the brutal, murderous work of this bloodthirsty mob, and it is to be hoped that they will bo brought to account for their blcoJy work.— Yazoo Sentinel.
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Magnolia Gazette
Magnolia, Mississippi, US
Wed, Mar 29, 1899
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