ANOTHER LYNCHING
- Title
- ANOTHER LYNCHING
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Chattanooga Daily Times
- Publication Place
- Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Publication Date
- 5/14/1897
- Transcript
- ANOTHER LYNCHING Reported That Jim Nance Was - Hanged Near Jeff The Report Lacks ContIrmation-7Inquest Over the Bodies of the Two IDENTITY:- OF LYNCHERS UNKNOWN The-Jury Returns a Verdict That the Vietima Came to Death at the Hands of Unknown Parties—Rumors That There Is an Uprising Among Negroes Is Unfounded -Huntsville Ala May third negro is reported ttb have been lyntthed near Jeff Ala last night The reported victim 13 Jim Nance alias Williams a former tenant on the Kelly farm who was discharged before the poisoning occurred and who is thought to have instigated the poisoning by the girls in order to 'wreak vengeance on the Kelly& The reported hanging of Nance lacks confirmation and it is believed by many here that the report is not true An Inquest Ordered Yesterday morning Sheriff Fulgham on hearing of the lynching of the two women near the Kelly place went to the scene determined to make an investigation and place the blame if possible Inquest Held He at once ordered an inquest W Y Vaughan justice of the peace empanneled the following- well-known citizens of that neighborhood as a jury of inquest: J F Smith D K 'Wall M A Taylor W L Hilliard T J Wall G A johnsoa and John Vaughan After examining a large number of witnesses both white and colored they reached the verdict that the women came to their death at the hands of unknown parties The bodies of the women were cut down and taken in charge-by friends and m ill be buried today Wild Rumors Denied All kinds of wild rumors are afloat concerning the feeling among the negroes nver the lynching These stories are absolutely without foundation for the negroes were as anxious to punish the guilty- parties as the whites for the reason that nearly as many negroes have been poisoned as NN hites - Forty-seven persons in all were poisoned in the three attempts in the Kelly family but only one death that of Joshua O Kelly resulted - ANOTHER LYNCHING Was Over the Bodies of the Two Negresses
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