Vol. Xi No..- 2723
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C, MON DAY, MAY 30 189S
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give pp and let them have
their way. Bat while the
crowd in the front of the jail
was succeeding in gaining an
MOST HORRIBLE DAY IN THE HISTORY
OF CABARRUS COUNTY AN AS
SAULT A MURDER -.- TWO
, NEGROES LYNCHED.
entrance, some persons bad
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this reason Jailer Hill had to
himjtogo with him. He a so con; pit them in separate cells,
f ssed that he heid the pirl but rm, ,
that Kizar did the work. This prisoners, broke eight locks,
etitementia rerified by a number, The work of breaking open
ana tney can vouch for it.
succeeded in getting into the
back!; hall by getting through
a window in the dining room.
No one was in the back hall
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to force them back except
Jailer Hill.
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i About thirty-five or forty
njnma liartseil, aJiirteen-Year-Old Girl, commenced to break open ti e
Brutally Assaulted, Then Killed--Neck doors to baiia and ceil Joe
tJ? "SS'n" Mxto Gathers Kizer threatened to kill bis
Around, the Jail and Overpowers the . m T u .
OfficT3rv--h -f -Kh ATo., . mate. Tom Johnson, and for
The mo it h rriHe outrage in the
history of Cabarrus or mny other
countieagyas committed on Sunday
eveilius: about four or fie mi ea
from Concord near the Coddle
Creek railroad bridge. It is horrible
in several reepec's. The one was
the assault, the other the murder,
and the last one, which wai of
course a horrible scene, was the
lynching of two negroes.
On Sunday afternoon Mr. S J
Hartseir and his wife and several
children went to the church to wor
ship and left Emma, their 12 -year-old
daughterand also the 6 months
old baby, at home. A while before
3 o'clock Rev, Plyler and another
gentleman drove up to the barn to
get out of the rain. Seeing adittle
baby on the porch they hollered f but
got no reeponse from the inside of
the noose. By in s time Mr. Hart
sell and family were in sight, comtng
home. Immediately Mr. Hartsell
picked up the little baby and took
her in the house . Soon one of the
daughters who bad been to church
walked into the kitchen . Here
was a most horrible scene. Emma
Hartsell lay there on the floor midst
clots ot blood. Soon the folks
gathered and found that Emma had
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been killed. Her forenead naa a
gaBh cut in it, and she was also cut
on the right cheek. But this was
nothing. It was soon found that
the back of her neck was cut from
ear to ear. . f
Exceptionally soon Dr, Pharr and
the people of the community were
present. Dr. Pharr examined the
body and said that he had reasons to
think that a satanic deed had also
been committed upon her.
THE VILLAINS CAUGHT.
In a short time the people of the
CDmmunity were infuriated to the
highest extent and were looking for
the villain or villains" that commit
ied the horrible crimes. They eocn
fund that some one had called at
the house of Mr. L S Bonds not far
away and had cut two of Mr. Bonds'
cows. One of them is cut twice and
the other once. Their wounds show
that it was done- with a sharp in-8-ranient,
as also do the wounds on
the lace of the girl. The negroes
were both found near Mr. Frank
Pharr'e. ;
a' confession to the crime.
The two negroes cauyht were Joe
Kizer And Tnm .lnhnson. After
B
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LOT
OF
YOU FURNISH THE FEET
WE DO THE RET.
That's nil wh ftpk you to do
Dish the fret We vWl not (i
he test tut will o i stiller
$2 50 '
y do
Ladies' Shirt
Waists
WoVth 35, 40 and 50
cents, to go for
25 cents.
See our 2 1-2 and 3c
Lawn.
Cannon & Fetzer
Company.
the cells was done bv sledee
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About 5:60 o'clock Sheriff hammers and coloScbisels.
Buchanan received word of At 10o they succeeded in
the horrible assault and murs getting the ropes around their
der. He, together with a sood necks and hollered for the
force of deputies, at once went crow to give way.
to the place in No. 11 town The officers then stepped
ship. When they arrived Tom asi(ie and nad to let the pris
Jobnson was in the hands of oners go. to be handled not by
puiy douu mn, csneriir at tne iaw but by the angry mob.
once put J onnson in his bug- troceed to hanging grounds.
gy and made for the jail here, Tne mob then proceeded out
but WaS followed the entire WfV,a olH l.nthernTi nVmrr.h
distance by a howling mob. and out by the Three Mile
Every precaution was made by branch. The mob stopped at
the Sheriff to get the man to the branch to let them talk but
jail and when going through tney onlyi stopped a short
the streets here with his pistol while.
in his hand, was constrained a Stand aed reporter talked
to warn them emphatically to tne prisoners, as they were
that they must not lay their being pushed along. Each one
hands upon his prisoner. would relate some incident.
As soon as the Sheriff left but would tell him nothing to
out in JSo 11 township, the am0unt to anything. They
remaining part of the mob fol would each describe the first
lowed the officers in pursuit part of the trouble, but when
of Kizer, and succeeded in itjeame to the assault and the
capturing him at his home murder nothimr is worth res
near Mr. Frank Pharr' s. peating a3 each claimed inno A IT J Mlf?lk
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We have everything: in Oxford
except your feet.
An ounce of satisfaction i8 worth
a ton of talk. Satisfaction goes
with every pair of shoes we sell.
Respectfully,
Dry
Miller
Shoe Furnishers.
cence.
Our "War Car, City of-Knoxville," is safe in port, io. djd with
and Frank Weddington, who jnst before going down the
were deputized, together with gig q0 Water hill the mob
Ueputy Hill, brought ivizer turned to the left and pre I finest cargo of Golden Oak Suits ever shown in this pai t of North Caro
lina. She was not captured by the panish FJeet of high 1 r ces as rc
here to jail. Another large Leaded about a quarter of a
mob followed these men. But mne. After arriving at a suit
they at last succeeded in get- able place for the hanging the ported,
ting them behind the bars, P.rUw RtnrmpfL Rev. WO
though the jail yard was Alexander, who was doing all She was safeguarded into port by our Gunboat, -High Price
simply a jam ot people, f in his power to ward off the Exploder," with 100 mattress' aboard, at prices ranging from $1.25 tc
From the time the negroes lynching, then spoke to the
Were brought to town seyeral prisoners. In most emphatic tones 15-00. Hearing is believing, seeing is the ra'ied trutj. You can hear
Vi n r Tor? rooro ofonrlinry nhftnt. un 4Um 4Uf fUan nnn
- uo ,uau from anyone that has ever been in dur store that w.taave the "stuff" enc:
ana every lew moments tne oa the verge ot oeing nanged ana
crowd would holler for them must now prepare to meet their we make the prices.
to release the men and let the God and not to dare to tell a lie.
crowd take them and lynch
them. '
OVERPOWERED THE OFFFICERS.
The officers tried to quell
tie angry inbb, but this was
impossible. The Sheriff and J
deputies, finding that they
were in too large a crowd of
spectators, .went on the inside
and .held the doors shut. The
mob then began to burst the
glass and finally succeeded in
knocking the doors open.
fi5 "Rnchanan was cut
zer and Tom Johnson. Alter , . ,
theybete caueht. we are informed sngauy y ui? li--r
What we say untoone we say unto all. Come and see.
But the one's statements only im
plicated the other, and you could
hardly say that the7 openly denied
it, Ineither did they confess it.
ReVc Alexander arrived at the
jail about . 9 o'clock, and - from the
time he arrived he pUad most ness at the old"staiidt See-Bell.
earnestly with the people not to
Bell, Hariris & Company.
P. S. We are still in the undertaking biisir
hy quite a number of reliable people
f that community, that Johnson
then acknowledged to the crime, but
at the same time said that Kizer got
and some one nit ronceman
Boger on the arm. But now
the! officers were overpowered
and they were compelled to
t tke those persons from the-iail, but
to no avail.
j ! Tom Johnson then asked that
Rev. Alexander pray for hin. Rev.
Alexander then prayed far them
both. His prayer rendered was
most pathetic,
THEY MEET DEATH.
Scarcely had his prayer faded
when the negroes were taken to a
medium size dogwood tree land
Residence Phone 90.
Store Phone 12,
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