Show BIG NOSE GEOKSE ReAttempts to Escape Is Cap tared and Lynched Cheyenne 22 George Parrott dias Big Nose George of the Elk Mountain murderers and an infamous in-famous road agent who is under sentence to be hanged on April 2d attmpted to break jail this evening at Rawlins Ho got his shackles off with which he attacked the jailor when he enter the corridor to lock the prisoners in their cells for the night The jailers wife hearing the conflict had the presence of nind to lock the outside door locking lock-ing the jailer in with the prisoners Che alarm was then raised and a number of citizens hastened to the ail released tins jailer and secureu he prisoner lie will be doubly ironed and strictly guarded until the day of his execution This action elf George is surprising since he has always manifested a contrite spirit md did not desire a trial pleading guilty to the indictment and desiring desir-ing to be hanged soon When the sentence of death was passed on him he wept like a child and broke down completely He also said his health was failing and in consequence conse-quence these facts he gained much sympathy but now threats of lynching lynch-ing are made and all desire now to see him suffer death Cheyenne 22A special to the Cheyenne Leader says that JJij Nose George was taken out of jail by a party of masked men at 1055 tonight and taken to a telegraph pole opposite the railroad machine shops where a rope was thrown over a crossbeam of the pole and Big Xose George was made to climb up a ladder when a rope was placed around his neck and the ladder then pulled out from under him letting him swing between heaven and earth His last words were I will jump off boys and break roy neck |