Negro Spirited Away By Mob

NEGRO SPIRITED AWAY BY A MOB Dothan. July 3-Henry McKinney, a negro, eighteen years, has been dis- posed of at the hands of a mob of Co- lumbia citizens, according to Sheriff T. W. Butler, of Houston county, who re- turned tonight from that place. The negro’s fate is unknown, although he is popularly supposed to have been lynched. According to Sheriff Butler, the ne- gro made an alleged confession to hav- ing entered the room of a Miss Har- rison, with criminal intent. He was caught soon afterwards and placed in jail. A mob of fifty men is said to have stormed the jail, secured the pri- soner and to have carried him toward the Chattahoochee river. Nothing has been heard or seen of him. “ince. Sheriff Butler declares that he was summoned early Saturday morning to bring bloodhounds to Columbia to trace a negro. Upon his arrival he was to! he was not needed. After returning to Dothan, a second call came for help, and he appealed for troops. Orders were issued to Captain J. C. Morris of Company F, First Regiment at Dothan, to be ready for service. Upon his sec- ond arrival at Columbia Sheriff Butler was told that the jail had been stormed and that the prisoner, with a rope around his neck, had been led toward the river. At the river bank the sheriff claims to have found parts of the negro’s clothing. NEGRO SPIRITED AWAY BY A MOB Dothan. July 3-Henry McKinney, a negro, eighteen years, has been dis- posed of at the hands of a mob of Co- lumbia citizens, according to Sheriff T. W. Butler, of Houston county, who re- turned tonight from that place. The negro’s fate is unknown, although he is popularly supposed to have been lynched. According to Sheriff Butler, the ne- gro made an alleged confession to hav- ing entered the room of a Miss Har- rison, with criminal intent. He was caught soon afterwards and placed in jail. A mob of fifty men is said to have stormed the jail, secured the pri- soner and to have carried him toward the Chattahoochee river. Nothing has been heard or seen of him. “ince. Sheriff Butler declares that he was summoned early Saturday morning to bring bloodhounds to Columbia to trace a negro. Upon his arrival he was to! he was not needed. After returning to Dothan, a second call came for help, and he appealed for troops. Orders were issued to Captain J. C. Morris of Company F, First Regiment at Dothan, to be ready for service. Upon his sec- ond arrival at Columbia Sheriff Butler was told that the jail had been stormed and that the prisoner, with a rope around his neck, had been led toward the river. At the river bank the sheriff claims to have found parts of the negro’s clothing.