Fights Off Lynch Mob

Black Buzz News Service
From The Archives Of The
Cleveland Gazette
Jacksonville, Fla.

JACKSONVILLE, Florida May 12, 1896- A Negro, Jack Trice, has escaped after fighting off 15 white men who were attempting to "regulate" (brutally ) whip and perhaps kill) his 14 year-old son.
The battle occurred after Trice's son had fought with the son of Town Marshall Hughes and beaten him badly.
The Marshall was enraged. He brought 14 of his friends to Trice's Palmetto home and demanded the boy be sent out to be" regulated."
Trice refused and the mob began firing. Returning the fire, Trice's first bullet killed Marshall Hughes.
When the whites tried to batter in the door, Henry Daniels received a fatal bullet in the stomach. Albert Bruffum was shot in the back as the "regulators" began their retreat.
The whites returned the next morning with reinforcements, vowing to burn father and son at the stake; but both were gone.
Posses with bloodhounds are chasing Trice and his son. If caught they will be lynched.
*Blogger Black Buzz says there is no further information on the above incident involving the Trice family and the nefarious mob.
Blogger Black Buzz, states that in 1895 One hundred-seventy-one Southern Blacks were lynched ; Black men were disenfranchised in South Carolina and Mississippi; Black workers were excluded from most unions.