Crimes and Casualties
Item
- Title
- Crimes and Casualties
- Source
- Daily Dispatch {VA}
- Date
- 1880-03-03
- page
- 3
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024738/1880-03-03/ed-1/?sp=3
- Crime
- Theft
- Subject
- Outrage; Murder; Burglary; Theft
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Race of alleged victim
- White alleged victim; Black alleged victim
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victims
- Law enforcement involved
- Police; Mob
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arrest; Extralegal
- Location
- Out-of-State; Colberton; SC
- Length of story
- 296 words
- Description
- Charlston, S.C., March 2.-On Saturday last a one-armed negro named Louis Kinder commuted an outrageous assault on a white woman named Byrd, residing near George's station, Colberton county, about fifty miles from this city. A hunt was organized, and the villain captured Sunday morning by a white and black posse. He was taken to the scene of the outrage and identified by his victim. A vote of the posse was taken, and it was decided not to lynch him, but to allow the law to take its course. Kinder was then taken to George's station and placed in the guard-house under a strong guard. Monday morning he was sent to Walterboro', still strongly guarded. On their way to Walterboro' the guard was overpowered by an armed force, consisting, it is said, largely of the relatives of the outraged lady and the prisoner was conveyed to a selceted spot in the woods, where he was kept until night. About 9 o'clock last night he was again confronted by the lady whom he had outraged, and again identified. He was again taken to the woods, where preparations were made to hang him. At the last moment he confessed his crime, and also confessed to a similar outrage upon a colored woman in Newberry six years ago. He further acknowledged the killing of a colored girl near Kingstree last April, and Confessed to four burglaries and innumerable thefts. At 10:30 o'clock he was hanged, and, after firing a volley of pistol shots into the body, the crowd quietly dispersed. Kinder was a dangerous outlaw, who for over a year had been the terror of the neighborhood on which he preyed, and the action of the vigilantes is heartly endorsed by both the white and colored residents of the vicinity.
