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LYNCH NEGRO NEAR BALTIMORE
DRAGS HELPLESS MAN TO HIS DEATH
IS SILENCED BY BALTIMORE CITY LYNCHERS WHEN HE CRIED FOR MERCY. DRAGGED THRU OWN BLOOD
King Davis, colored, twenty-eight years old, who last Saturday shot and killed Frederick A. Schwab at Fairfield, Anne Arundel County, Md., was taken from the jail at Brooklyn, Baltimore City, and shot to death by a party of men.
Davis, who was also known by the name of Johnson, was dragged to a spot about 200 yards from the station and shot through the lungs four times. His body was not discovered until several hours afterward by a passerby, who notified the police.
No all-night guard is kept at the station and the police had no knowledge of the affair until the finding of the body was reported. Chief of Police Irwin at once started an investigation. He said he had no clue to tJhe perpetrators of the deed.
The avenging band formed quietly. They effected an entrance
"to the lock-up without attracting the attention of those living
kcarby, and went to Davis' cell, where they found him asleep.
Hubert Chase, colored, who was held in the station as a witness
in the Schwab case, was not molested.
Chase said that Davis fought desperately and shrieked for mercy, but his cries were silenced by a blow on the head, which
He was then dragged away to his
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