Henry Lloyd and Will Echols
The Clarke County Tribune
Henry Lloyd and Will Echols, negroes, were convicted in the Meridian courts or the murder of a suburban merchant, James A. Tyrell, and an aged night watchman, Davis, by name, and sentenced to hang on Friday of last week at Meridian. Henry Lloyd paid the penalty upon the scaffold, and in his confession exonerated Ecols stating he alone committed the killings, however, stating that Echols planned the double murder. Upon this confession the execution of Echols was stayed at the last moment by an appeal to the supreme court.
As a precaution to prevent a possible lynching of the negro, Echols was spirited away from the Meridian jail and brought to Quitman and placed in a cell of the jail here.
Early Sunday morning, the hour about 3 o'clock, a crowd of about 20 drove into Quitman, stopping in front of the court house. Sending an urgent call for sheriff Evans to immediately come to the court house as he was wanted by a U.S. Marshall. When Mr. Evans did arrive he was siezed and the keys taken from his person. Not being able however, to obtain the cell key in which the prisoner was confined, an aectiline torch was used to melt away the lock. Securing the prisoner he was placed in an automobile and rushed out of town. His body was found later riddled with bullets lying in the road about two miles north of Quitman.
After an inquest, the jury came to the conclusion that "the negro came to his death by gun shot wounds by unknown parties." His body was turned over to sheriff Evans who had it prepared and shipped to Meridian, the negro's home.
Wm. Doggett
The Clarke County Tribune
Died, at his home near Quitman, on August 26th, 1920, Mr. Wm. Doggett, after an illness of ten days, old age being partly the cause of his death, he having been born November 29th, 1848, this making him lack just a month or two of being 72 years of age.
Mr. Doggett leaves a wife and six living children, and quite a number of other relatives and a large circle of friends to mourn his departure, among his children being C. L. Doggett, of Quitman.
For twenty years Mr Doggett was a member of the Methodist Protestant church and was a devout member, and as a citizen was loved by his neighbors because of his uprightness, many of whom were at hiss bedside through his sickness, and when death came, to whom the family feels deeply grateful. Peaceful be the sleep of this good old man and glorious the awakening on the resurrection morn.
M.B. Felts
The Clarke County Tribune
Mr. M. B. Felts, age 62, died instantly of heart failure on Wednesday September 14. He was at the home of his son in Quitman when the sudden call came. He was a resident of the Hurricane Creek neighborhood just over in Alabama. The remains were sent to his home for interrment.
The Clarke County Tribune
Henry Lloyd and Will Echols, negroes, were convicted in the Meridian courts or the murder of a suburban merchant, James A. Tyrell, and an aged night watchman, Davis, by name, and sentenced to hang on Friday of last week at Meridian. Henry Lloyd paid the penalty upon the scaffold, and in his confession exonerated Ecols stating he alone committed the killings, however, stating that Echols planned the double murder. Upon this confession the execution of Echols was stayed at the last moment by an appeal to the supreme court.
As a precaution to prevent a possible lynching of the negro, Echols was spirited away from the Meridian jail and brought to Quitman and placed in a cell of the jail here.
Early Sunday morning, the hour about 3 o'clock, a crowd of about 20 drove into Quitman, stopping in front of the court house. Sending an urgent call for sheriff Evans to immediately come to the court house as he was wanted by a U.S. Marshall. When Mr. Evans did arrive he was siezed and the keys taken from his person. Not being able however, to obtain the cell key in which the prisoner was confined, an aectiline torch was used to melt away the lock. Securing the prisoner he was placed in an automobile and rushed out of town. His body was found later riddled with bullets lying in the road about two miles north of Quitman.
After an inquest, the jury came to the conclusion that "the negro came to his death by gun shot wounds by unknown parties." His body was turned over to sheriff Evans who had it prepared and shipped to Meridian, the negro's home.
Wm. Doggett
The Clarke County Tribune
Died, at his home near Quitman, on August 26th, 1920, Mr. Wm. Doggett, after an illness of ten days, old age being partly the cause of his death, he having been born November 29th, 1848, this making him lack just a month or two of being 72 years of age.
Mr. Doggett leaves a wife and six living children, and quite a number of other relatives and a large circle of friends to mourn his departure, among his children being C. L. Doggett, of Quitman.
For twenty years Mr Doggett was a member of the Methodist Protestant church and was a devout member, and as a citizen was loved by his neighbors because of his uprightness, many of whom were at hiss bedside through his sickness, and when death came, to whom the family feels deeply grateful. Peaceful be the sleep of this good old man and glorious the awakening on the resurrection morn.
M.B. Felts
The Clarke County Tribune
Mr. M. B. Felts, age 62, died instantly of heart failure on Wednesday September 14. He was at the home of his son in Quitman when the sudden call came. He was a resident of the Hurricane Creek neighborhood just over in Alabama. The remains were sent to his home for interrment.
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