POLITE LYNCHING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14275, 16 August 1910, Page 6

POLITE LYNCHING.

HANGED BY "COUNTY PEOPLE."

| Judge Lynch is again busy in the : United States, one of the incidents ; being probably the most remarkable on record, it haviig been conducted by county people, j "I wash you would please state that : . the lynching of Elmo Curl, at Mastodon, Mississippi, was a most orderly affair, conducted .by. the bankers, law- , yer.-j, farmers, and merchants of that : cov/uty. The best people of the county '■ ns good as the best anywhere—simply met and hanged Curl without a. sign i 01: rowdyism. There was no drinking, ' sJrootmg or yelling, not even loud ; talking." Tlus request irsouthern newspapers without com- '■ i ments. It was rr.feide bv Mr John Mil- ! ter, tax assessor, brother of W. Miller : wlio was shot fcty Curl at Mastodon. : , .several weeks a<go, when Mr Miller: uent :rt the head of a posse to arrest : mm for writing an insulting note to a I % , ,v, . ,111a .»- J°l»i Miller, savs the >' „, the .-ourse of an inter- ' view, .said:. -My friends and nei-b- i ! tJolirs. alter capturing tlie negro, kind- ! | <y ns.jed me to express my wishes. I ! ineir courtesy to me could not have I , fern surpassed. I told them I did not 5 ■believe m brutality nor did. I nporove I of: the mutilation of bodies bv torture I or slow burning, bint I would like to I Have the {privilege accorded me of I making the first p,,l| on the rooe after j Hp P n Tn WM l ra ' M l y f °'" h » n V"Z to a tiee. All-, acceded to- my wishes/but I i believe the negro was dead from fright j long before he was hauled from the ground. The knot was tied at' to ! back of his neck, and the neg J was ! «WIy # hanj.ed .up. There wnj° not a I jerk or- fall; yet lie never kicked and ' so far .as we could see, no muscle ever moved after he was hoisted into the air In f«4, we had to lift him to his feet' m ho. seemed unable to .stand. 11l the | best neoplo m that section took "a, t and I have, never seen a mor»orcTer!v i (assemblage anywhere." »uuiy