Kerrville / Big Creek Bottoms lynchings (6)

Argue About M'Carver's Case.

Legal Snag Still Stops Progress Of The Lynching Trial.

Butch McCarver is Recalled and His Father Testifies About Him – Dr. Williford States That Young McCarver Told Him of His Athiestic Views.

Bob M'Carver Is An Infidel.

Springs Another Sensation in the Richardson-Smith Case.

Called As a Witness, He Denies That He Believes in God or a Hereafter, and Pending a Decision as to His Competency, Court Adjourns.

State Springs a Sensation.

Witness Says Richardson Predicted the Kerrville Lynching.

Another Interruption Occurs.

Sickness of a Juror Causes Delay in the Lynching Case.

Widows of Victims Testify.

Smith-Richardson Murder Trial Is On In Earnest.

IDA J. WELLS SPEAKS

SHE DENOUNCES THE WHOLESALE LYNCHING IN TENNESSEE,

And Says It Is High Time Steps Were Taken to Make Such Crimes Impossible.

Chicago, Sept. 2 – Ida J. Wells, the young colored woman whose work on the lecture platform here and abroad in behalf of the anti-lynching movement has made her name well known, could scarcely restrain her emotion when she read the published account of the fate visited upon six of her race near Millington, Tenn.

SIX NEGROES KILLED

Southern Savagery Exemplified Afresh in a Horrible Manner.

Half a Dozen Colored Men, Accused of Incendiarism, Who Were Chained Together in a Wagon, Shot to Death.

TWO DETECTIVES "HELD UP"

And the Contents of Fifty Guns Emptied Into the Prisoners.

Usual Verdict of "At the Hands of Unknown Persons" Returned – More Ammunition for Ida J. Wells.

The Frederick Douglass quote is of particular interest: