Murder and Lynching- The Augusta Dispatch learns that a negro boy who had killed a white man was burnt at the stake at Station No. 11, on the South-Western Railroad, on Friday last. Twelve persons took him form the Sheriff’s custody, giving bonds for his redelivery, after which they tried, sentenced and executed the murderer, returning his ashes to the officer.
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I always wonder about these acts of vigilantism. Sounds like The Stoning of Sariah M. My own great-grandfather witnessed a lynching in Calif c. 1846 of a young man who swore his innocence to his death. My ancestor, Thomas Westley Bradley, a Copperhead and supporter of John C. Breckenridge for President in 1860, never could talk about the lynching he witnessed without a tear coming to his eye--for the rest of his life. Anyway, burned at the stake?