Crime had been committed by Negroes, but this mob made no attempt to find the criminals: it expressed its blind, unreasoning, uncontrolled race hatred by attacking every man, woman, or boy it saw who had a black face. A lame boot-black, an inoffensive, industrious Negro boy, at that moment actually at work shining a man's shoes, was dragged out and cuffed, kicked and beaten to death in the street. Another young Negro was chased and stabbed to death with jack-knives in the most unspeakably horrible manner. The mob entered barber shops where respectable Negro men were at work shaving white customers, pulled them away from their chairs and beat them. Cars were stopped and inoffensive Negroes were thrown through the windows or dragged out and beaten. They did not stop with killing and maiming; they broke into hardware stores and armed themselves, they demolished not only Negro barber shops and restaurants, but they robbed stores kept by white men. [Illustration: JAMES H. WALLACE "The asphalt workers are nearly all coloured. In New York ... the chosen representative who sits with the Central Federated Union of the city is James H. Wallace, a coloured man."] [Illustration: R. R. WRIGHT Organiser of the Negro State Fair in Georgia. Of full-blooded African descent, his grandmother, who reared him, being an African Negro of the Mandingo tribe.] [Illustration: H. O. TANNER One of whose pictures hangs in the Luxembourg; winner N. W. Harris prize for the best American painting at Chicago.] [Illustration: REV. H. H. PROCTOR Pastor of the First Congregational Church (coloured), to which belong many of the best coloured families of Atlanta.] [Illustration: DR. W. F. PENN This prosperous Negro physician's home in Atlanta was visited by the mob.] [Illustration: GEORGE W. CABLE Chairman of the coloured probation officers of the Juvenile Court, Indianapolis. Photograph by Sexton & Maxwell] Of course the Mayor came out, and the police force and the fire department, and finally the Governor ordered out the militia--to apply that pound of cure which should have been an ounce of prevention.