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This morning he was brought through Texarkana, where 5,000 people awaitedthe train, anxious to see a man who had received the fate of Ed. Coy. Atthat place speeches were made by prominent Paris citizens, who asked thatthe prisoner be not molested by Texarkana people, but that the guard beallowed to deliver him up to the outraged and indignant citizens of Paris.Along the road the train gathered strength from the various towns, thepeople crowded upon the platforms and tops of coaches anxious to see thelynching and the negro who was soon to be delivered to an infuriated mob.

8 Oclock In The Morning Ray Nelson Pdf 44

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Wednesday, July 5, about 10 o'clock in the morning, a terrible crime wascommitted within four miles of Wickliffe, Ky. Two girls, Mary and RubyRay, were found murdered a short distance from their home. The news ofthis terrible cowardly murder of two helpless young girls spread like wildfire, and searching parties scoured the territory surrounding Wickliffeand Bardwell. Two of the searching party, the Clark brothers, saw a manenter the Dupoyster cornfield; they got their guns and fired at thefleeing figure, but without effect; he got away, but they said he was awhite man or nearly so. The search continued all day without effect, savethe arrest of two or three strange Negroes. A bloodhound was brought fromthe penitentiary and put on the trail which he followed from the scene ofthe murder to the river and into the boat of a fisherman named Gordon.Gordon stated that he had ferried one man and only one across the riverabout about half past six the evening of July 5; that his passenger sat infront of him, and he was a white man or a very bright mulatto, who couldnot be told from a white man. The bloodhound was put across the river inthe boat, and he struck a trail again at Bird's Point on the Missouriside, ran about three hundred yards to the cottage of a white farmer namedGrant and there lay down refusing to go further.

Thursday morning a brakesman on a freight train going out of Sikeston,Mo., discovered a Negro stealing a ride; he ordered him off and had hotwords which terminated in a fight. The brakesman had the Negro arrested.When arrested, between 11 and 12 o'clock, he had on a dark woolen shirt,light pants and coat, and no vest. He had twelve dollars in paper, twosilver dollars and ninety-five cents in change; he had also four rings inhis pockets, a knife and a razor which were rusted and stained. TheSikeston authorities immediately jumped to the conclusion that this manwas the murderer for whom the Kentuckians across the river were searching.They telegraphed to Bardwell that their prisoner had on no coat, but worea blue vest and pants which would perhaps correspond with the coat foundat the scene of the murder, and that the names of the murdered girls werein the rings found in his possession.

In other words, the protection of the law was withdrawn from C.J. Miller,and he was given to a mob by this sheriff at Sikeston, who knew that theprisoner's life depended on one man's word. After an altercation with thetrain men, who wanted another $50 for taking the train back to Bird'sPoint, the crowd arrived there at three o'clock, Friday morning. Here wasanchored The Three States, a ferryboat plying between Wickliffe, Ky,Cairo, Ill., and Bird's Point, Mo. This boat left Cairo at twelve o'clock,Thursday, with nearly three hundred of Cairo's best(?) citizens and thirtykegs of beer on board. This was consumed while the crowd and thebloodhound waited for the prisoner.

The sheriff of Ballard County informed him, sternly that if the prisonerwas not the man, he (the fisherman) would be held responsible as knowingwho the guilty man was. Gordon stated before, that the man he ferriedacross was a white man or a bright colored man; Miller was a dark brownskinned man, with kinky hair, "neither yellow nor black," says the CairoEvening Telegram of Friday, July 7. The fisherman went up to Miller frombehind, looked at him without speaking for fully five minutes, then slowlysaid, "Yes, that's the man I crossed over." This was about six o'clock,Friday morning, and the crowd wished to hang Miller then and there. ButMr. Ray, the father of the girls, insisted that he be taken to Bardwell,the county seat of Ballard, and twelve miles inland. He said he thought awhite man committed the crime, and that he was not satisfied that was theman. They took him to Bardwell and at ten o'clock, this same excited,unauthorized mob undertook to determine Miller's guilt. One of the Clarkbrothers who shot at a fleeing man in the Dupoyster cornfield, said theprisoner was the same man; the other said he was not, but the testimony ofthe first was accepted. A colored woman who had said she gave breakfast toa colored man clad in a blue flannel suit the morning of the murder, saidpositively that she had never seen Miller before. The gold rings found inhis possession had no names in them, as had been asserted, and Mr. Raysaid they did not belong to his daughters. Meantime a funeral pyre for thepurpose of burning Miller to death had been erected in the center of thevillage. While the crowd swayed by passion was clamoring that he be burnt,Miller stepped forward and made the following statement: "My name isC.J. Miller. I am from Springfield, Ill.; my wife lives at 716 N. 2dStreet. I am here among you today, looked upon as one of the most brutalmen before the people. I stand here surrounded by men who are excited, menwho are not willing to let the law take its course, and as far as thecrime is concerned, I have committed no crime, and certainly no crimegross enough to deprive me of my life and liberty to walk upon the greenearth."

The next day the mob grew in numbers and its rage increased in itsintensity. There was no longer any doubt that Smith, innocent as he was ofany crime, would be killed, for with the mayor out of the city and thegovernor of the state using no effort to control the mob, it was only aquestion of a few hours when the assault would be repeated and its victimput to death. All this happened as per programme. The description of thatmorning's carnival appeared in the paper above quoted and reads asfollows:

A squad of twenty men took the negro Smith from three policemen just before five o'clock this morning and hanged him to a hickory limb on Ninth Avenue, in the residence section of the city. They riddled his body with bullets and put a placard on it saying: "This is Mayor Trout's friend." A coroner's jury of Bismel was summoned and viewed the body and rendered a verdict of death at the hands of unknown men. Thousands of persons visited the scene of the lynching between daylight and eight o'clock when the body was cut down. After the jury had completed its work the body was placed in the hands of officers, who were unable to keep back the mob. Three hundred men tried to drag the body through the streets of the town, but the Rev. Dr. Campbell of the First Presbyterian church and Capt. R.B. Moorman, with pleas and by force prevented them.

At 12 o'clock last night, Lee Walker, who attempted to outrage Miss Mollie McCadden, last Tuesday morning, was taken from the county jail and hanged to a telegraph pole just north of the prison. All day rumors were afloat that with nightfall an attack would be made upon the jail, and as everyone anticipated that a vigorous resistance would be made, a conflict between the mob and the authorities was feared.

Detective Richardson, who is also a deputy coroner, then proceeded to impanel the following jury of inquest: J.S. Moody, A.C. Waldran, B.J. Childs, J.N. House, Nelson Bills, T.L. Smith, and A. Newhouse. After viewing the body the inquest was adjourned without any testimony being taken until 9 o'clock this morning. The jury will meet at the coroner's office, 51 Beale Street, upstairs, and decide on a verdict. If no witnesses are forthcoming, the jury will be able to arrive at a verdict just the same, as all members of it saw the lynching. Then someone raised the cry of "Burn him!" It was quickly taken up and soon resounded from a hundred throats. Detective Richardson, for a long time, single-handed, stood the crowd off. He talked and begged the men not to bring disgrace on the city by burning the body, arguing that all the vengeance possible had been wrought.

Alabama furnishes a case in point. A colored man named Daniel Edwards,lived near Selma, Alabama, and worked for a family of a farmer near thatplace. This resulted in an intimacy between the young man and a daughterof the householder, which finally developed in the disgrace of the girl.After the birth of the child, the mother disclosed the fact that Edwardswas its father. The relationship had been sustained for more than a year,and yet this colored man was apprehended, thrown into jail from whence hewas taken by a mob of one hundred neighbors and hung to a tree and hisbody riddled with bullets. A dispatch which describes the lynching, endsas follows. "Upon his back was found pinned this morning the following:'Warning to all Negroes that are too intimate with white girls. This thework of one hundred best citizens of the South Side.'"

The greatest victory for the antilynchers comes this morning in the publication in the London Times of William Lloyd Garrison's letter. This letter will have immense effect here. It may have been printed in full in the United States, but nevertheless I will quote a paragraph which will strengthen the antilynchers greatly in their crusade here:

Miss Willard told me the day before the resolutions were offered that theSouthern women present had held a caucus that day. This was after I, asfraternal delegate from the Woman's Mite Missionary Society of the A.M.E.Church at Cleveland, O., had been introduced to tender its greetings. Inso doing I expressed the hope of the colored women that the W.C.T.U. wouldplace itself on record as opposed to lynching which robbed them ofhusbands, fathers, brothers and sons and in many cases of women as well.No note was made either in the daily papers or the Union Signal of thatintroduction and greeting, although every other incident of that morningwas published. The failure to submit a lynching resolution and the wordingof the one above appears to have been the result of that Southern caucus. 2ff7e9595c