The Ouachita Telegraph - Four Men Lynched

Date: Aug. 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, March 9, 1877
Page 1, Column 6

FOUR MEN LYNCHED.
        On last Monday night the warehouse of Mr. Therrouse, on the Macon, was
destroyed by fire.  The warehouse had a considerable amount of freight in
it, and it is supposed was first plundered and then burned.  No clue to the
perpetrators of the fiendish deed has been found up to this writing.
        P.S. – Since the above was in type we have received the information that
after the burning steps were immediately taken to ascertain who were the
perpetrators of the deed, and it ws found that a number of negroes were the
authors of it.  They were arrested and placed in the hands of Constable W.A.
Craig, and during the night were taken from him by an armed body of men.
This morning four of the number were found dead, hanging by the neck to
branches of trees on the Delhi and Harrisonburg road.  There were nine
negroes engaged in the theft and arson.  The following are the names of
those found hung:  Gabe Hill, Ves Thomas, Lou Duncan, and turner Griffin.
The others are missing.
-- Franklin Sun.

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