Lynching Law

LYNCH LAW.-A few weeks since we noticed the murder of a Mise Thornton of this county, by one of her father’s ne gro men. The nygro was lodged in jail -having of his OWD free will confessed the crime. The case was called at the last term of our Circuit Court, and a day set for the trial. When the day came on, much to the surprise of every one, on application, a change of venue to Greene county was granted. The mur- der had been attended by the most dia- bolical and aggravating circumstances which the imagination can conceive.- Yet, the heart-rended parent and out raged community had permitted the law to take its course till it arrived at this point, when tuey would stand it no longer. Accordingly, on Wednesday night last, about 12 o’clock, a number of gen- tlemen, from the nig hborhood where the foul deed had been perpetrated, com- prising, from what we can learn, some hundred or hundred and fifty, of the most respected citizens, came to Living- ton, and some of them, entering the jail for the purpose, they said, of com- mitting a nergro they had with them, got possession of this boy Dave. Oth- ers immediately ran to their assistance; the keeper of the jail was held in du- ress and the negro was borne off by the infuriated throug. We were unable to learn what the punishment reserved for the negro was, but it was intimated that he was to be burned on vesterday in the neighborhood of Mr. Thornton. It is proper to remark that the Sher- iff, one of his deputies and the jailor, were at the time on a trip to Wetumpka, with Robinson who was sentenced at the last term of the Court, to the Penitenti- ary. The deputies, however, which were here, are entirely free from cen- sure. We cannot approve this high-handed measure, for, aggravated though the case was. while we have laws we should a- bide by them. Sumter (Ala.) Democrat. LYNCH LAW.-A few weeks since we noticed the murder of a Mise Thornton of this county, by one of her father’s ne gro men. The nygro was lodged in jail -having of his OWD free will confessed the crime. The case was called at the last term of our Circuit Court, and a day set for the trial. When the day came on, much to the surprise of every one, on application, a change of venue to Greene county was granted. The mur- der had been attended by the most dia- bolical and aggravating circumstances which the imagination can conceive.- Yet, the heart-rended parent and out raged community had permitted the law to take its course till it arrived at this point, when tuey would stand it no longer. Accordingly, on Wednesday night last, about 12 o’clock, a number of gen- tlemen, from the nig hborhood where the foul deed had been perpetrated, com- prising, from what we can learn, some hundred or hundred and fifty, of the most respected citizens, came to Living- ton, and some of them, entering the jail for the purpose, they said, of com- mitting a nergro they had with them, got possession of this boy Dave. Oth- ers immediately ran to their assistance; the keeper of the jail was held in du- ress and the negro was borne off by the infuriated throug. We were unable to learn what the punishment reserved for the negro was, but it was intimated that he was to be burned on vesterday in the neighborhood of Mr. Thornton. It is proper to remark that the Sher- iff, one of his deputies and the jailor, were at the time on a trip to Wetumpka, with Robinson who was sentenced at the last term of the Court, to the Penitenti- ary. The deputies, however, which were here, are entirely free from cen- sure. We cannot approve this high-handed measure, for, aggravated though the case was. while we have laws we should a- bide by them. Sumter (Ala.) Democrat.