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TWO NEGROES ARE
LYNCHED IN WALTON
Two Negroes, Tom Allen and Rich
ard Watts, Are Lynched by
Walton County Mob.
From The Atlanta Georgian.
Monroe, Ga., June 27. —The case
of the state against Tom Allen, a
negro, charged with having com
mitted an assault in Walton county
some weeks ago, will not be tried in
the adjourned term of Walton Su
perior court today as was anticipat
ed, by virtue of the fact the accused
fell into the hands of the mob be
fore reaching Monroe, the county
seat. Allen, in company with Bai
liff Patrick, of Monroe; Bailiff
Brooks, of Walnut Grove; and Wil
liam Riley, who was deputized by
Sheriff Stark, reached Social Circle
over the Georgia railroad last night
and as soon as the midnight express
rolled up at the station the mob ap
proached the officers and demanded
the prisoner. They at once pro
ceeded to a piece of woods some
two miles from Social Ciicle on the
Monroe and Social Circle road and
there in the quiet of the night, with
out even the ripple of the leaves on
the trees, swung Allen to a tele
graph pole and began riddling his
body with bullet 3 and otherwise dis
figuring him.
The bullets, it is said, were so
numerous that the large plow line
by which the negro was suspended
was cut in two and the negro allow
ed to slide down the pole. He was
then retied and refilled with bullets.
There were about 40 in the mob
ami those who observed them, pass
ing along the road, said they were
the most orderly they ever saw, and
no one ever dreamed that the negro
was being dealt with as was later
shown.
Hundreds of people have gone in
buggies, automobiles, and on trains
to the scene of the lynching. Al
len, it is said, denied his guilt to
the very last and acted in absolute
indifference to what was being done
to him.
Up to this hour Judge Brand has
not reached the cit.y. He was in
Jefferson yesterday trying a negro
charged with the same offense for
which Allen was lynched. The ne
gro at Jefferson was tried and sent
enced to hang in four hburs, the
date of execution being July 17.
Matt Allen, father of Tom Allen,
was rot brought to Walton county,
but remains in Atlanta. It was an-
ticipated by Sheriff Stark that, in
the event Tom made it through safe,
he would then come in, bringing
®he Journal.
CO6HRAN. PULASKI COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY JUNE 29. 1911.
Matt. Neither the sheriff nor his
deputy were with Tom when he was
seized and lynched.
It is said that Tom Allen was tied
with a rope and the rope tied to the
wrist of one of the officers. When
the mob started off the officer was
carried beside the negro and,
in but a short time the officer asked
that he might be released. The
rope was slipped from the officer’s
hand and lie was allowed to pass on
with the mob.
Walton county is stirred as nev
er before today and much is being
said of the discretion of the mob in
sparing the general public the ex
citement that the lynching incurred.
Monroe, the county seat, is espec
ially pleased that the affair did not
occur here.
On a placard written and hung
above the body of the negro were
these words:
“Do not take this body down un
til 12 o’clock tonight.”
On another were the words;
“No negro must touch a white
woman in this county.”
SAME MOB STORMS JAIL AT
MONROE AND KILLS NEGRO
Monroe, Ga., June 27. —A mob
of between 150 and 200 men, the
same crowd that lynched Tom Al
len at Mitchell’s Crossing near So
cial Circle, this morning, stormed
the Walton county jail here at noon
today and took Richard Watts, a
negro associate of Allen, to a place
two miles northwest of the town
and strung him up.
It seems that the mob was not
satisfied with its work at Social Cir
cle, and was determined to get rid
of all the bad negroes in the Good
Hope section of Walton county,
which is some six or seven miles
away from Monroe.
The mob surprised the jailer,
overpowered him, and made at
orce for Watts, who had been held
for a week for beating a negress.
There were eight or nine other pris
oners in the jail. Not any one of
these was harmed.
For a couple of hours the town
was in intense excitement, and it
appeared as if Mayor Nowell would
be forced to call upon the adjutant
general to send troops here. At 2
o’clock, however, the mob dis
persed, and it seems now as if there
will be no more trouble.
In this issue you will find Gov.
Brown’s farewell message to the
Georgia Legislature, which con
vened yesterday (Wednesday).
A FAIR WARNING
TO BLIND TIGERS
Sheriff Rogers Calls on Liquor
Dealers and Tells Them to
Quit Business.
From Hawkinsville Dispatch.
Sheriff John R. Rogers spent a
part of Monday and Tuesday in
calling upon parties in Hawkins
ville and Hartford who were alleg
ed to be engaged in dispensing
"blind tiger” liquor and notified
them that if they didn’t quit the
business at once he would proceed
against them as the law directs in
such cases. All of them, it is said,
promised him they would quit
“right now” and stay quit. In
fact, one man who attended tlie
men’s meeting, recently conducted
in this city by Rev. Bob Jones,
told the Sheriff, it is said, that he
had been made to see the error of
his way and its awful consequences
so clearly and forcefully that he
had decided of his own free will
and accord to quit the business and
that he not only intended to stay
quit but would cheerfully assist the
officers in making any others quit
who might be selling liquor.
Not only those Ipiown to be lun
ning “blind tigers” were warned
against further violations of the law
but all those suspected of conduct
ing such places of business.
The step on the part of Sheriff
Rogers will be heartily commended
by all good citizens of the city and
country and many have already
pledged him their hearty support in
co-operation in his efforts to sup
press these great nuisances that are
having such a demoralizing effect
upon our community.
Sheriff Rogers is known as a good
man, a man with a big sympathet
ic heart, and he does not wish to
see any one get into trouble, but it
is said the prohibition law is being
violated so frequently and openly
violated that he has decided to cast
aside all sentiment and will hereaf
ter exert every possible effort to
catch all violators, both white and
black, and will know no friends nor
favorites, but will treat all alike.
And he has the assurance of Mayor
Lovejoy, Chief of Police Meadows
Policemen Napeir and Ragan and
Deputy Sheriff Joab Horne that
they will render him all the assist
ance they can in his efforts to en
force the law.
If anyone, therefore, goes ahead
and wilfully violates the law in the
face of these warnings, which are
given in all kindness but with firm
ness, and gets into trouble, he or
they, as the case may be,'will have
nobody to blame but themselves.
Many of our best citizens are ad-
INTER-URBAN LINE
TO NEARBY TOWNS
Waycross Capitalists Will Connect
Blackshear and Waresboro
with Electric Railway.
Waycross, Ga., June 27. —Way-
cross will have a system of street
railway with extensions to nearby
communities within a year, if the
charter applied for today is granted
to the citizens backing the proposi
tion.
' To begin the company, it is
proposed to have at least $500,000
in stock. This is the result of the
great demand for, stock in the com
pany locally, although a good share
is to go to outsiders. The company
will have to get busy within sixty
days in order to comply with the
franchise granted.
Blackshear and Waresboro are the
first places near Waycross that will
be reached bv the suburban lines.
Hebardville, Deenwood, Winona
Park, and other sections of Way
cross will l>e pierced Try the city
lines.
To overcome the railroad crossing
problem, several overhead crossings
will be erected, making a portion of
the lines elevated. The backers of
the system have ample financial
support to carry out all projects of
the company, in addition to the
outside assistance. The construc
tion of the line will relieve condi
tions considerably in Waycross, as
the question of transportation has
been one of the greatest ones before
the city for years. —Macon Tele
graph.
vocating chain gang sentences, with
out the option of paying a fine, for
this class of law-breakers and senti
ment along this line is growing so
strong that this may be the rule of
punishment adopted by the courts
hereafter.
When men are allowed to break
one law without being punished,
they soon have no fear of breaking
others, and we soon find ourselves
in a state of anarchy, with neither
life nor property safe, and the time
has come in Pulaski county when
every good citizen, white or black,
should bestir themselves to see that
the dignity of the law is upheld,
and the only way to do this is to
punish those who commit crime.
Sheriff Rogers says that his eff
orts to stop the sale of liquor will
not be confined to Hawkinsville and
Hartford alone, but will extend to
every part of the county.
Sheriff Rogers is not only a good
man but is one of the best and
most fearless officers in the state.
He is a man that knows how to do
things and without any fuss and
goes quietly along and brings things
to pass, and it is safe to say that
hereafter no one in the county will
be able to operate a blind tiger
many days or weeks before he will
be boarding in the county jail,
awaiting action of the courts.
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