A NEGRO LYNCHED
John Thomas was Hung by a Mob for Assaulting a Little White Girl—Cool Proceeding After Identification.
CHICAGO, Ill., July 17.—A special from Evansville, Ind., says: A lynching occurred at Union City, Ky., yesterday. Early in the week a negro named John Thomas committed a brutal assault on a little white girl. A posse was organized, and after a long search he was found at Humboldt and brought back. His preliminary trial was held yesterday.
A large, angry and determined crowd filled the court room. He was positively identified by his victim.
At this point some one in the crowd shouted, "That's enough; let's put him where he will do no more of the devil's work." Then the entire court-room of men, numbering perhaps 200 enraged citizens, rose to their feet and with an impulsive rush surged over the posse of officers, sweeping them aside as if though a mere bundle of chaff, and despite their desperate but futile efforts to save Thomas, the maddened throng seized the now trembling and panic stricken wretch, and in an instant a good rope was produced and a noose prepared and slipped about the prisoner's neck. Willing hands threw the end of the rope over a beam in the courthouse, and then the crowd walked away leaving the body swinging.
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