AMERICAN MOB VIOLENCE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 18 December 1913, Page 5

AMERICAN MOB VIOLENCE

Negroes lynched

BY CABIiK—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPTMGHT

NEW YORK, Dec. 16. A mob lynched two negroes-named Ernest and Frank Williams, at Shreveport, Louisana,- after they had confessed to the murder of Ballard, a storekeeper, whose body they hacked to pieces.

Ballard had formerly been a prison guard, in which capacity he killed two escaping negroes, for which the Williams brothers plotted his death. The Williams brothers begged for mercy when the mob overpowered their gaolers, but the mob yelled: "You showed no mercy to Ballard!"

Another lynching occurred at Williston, North Dakota, where a murderer named Cuthbertson was hanged by a band of masked men. Tfie mob battered down the gaol's door with an iron pipe, carried off Giithbertson, and hanged him from a bridge spanning a river. They then riddled his body with bullets. The police interfered, but were badly beaten. Cuthbertson was undergoing a life sentence.