Show STAOfE UOBBttliS LYNCHED John D and Charles Haggles Hung by a lob at Kedding Cal REDDING Cal July 25JQnh D and Charles Ruggles who robbed the Redding stage near hero several weeks ago und killed Express Messenger Montgomery and wounded the driver and a passontrer were taken from the jail by about lift armed and masked men at 230 oclock yesterday yes-terday morning and hanged The recent sentimental attitude of a number of women towards tho prisoners as well as tho line of defense adopted by their counsel who has been evidently endeavoring en-deavoring to implicate Messenger Montgomery Mont-gomery as 1 party to the crime had been denounced by a number of persons in the country and it is believed the lynching was due to tneso causes About 1 oclock yesterday morning a body of forty men who bad evidently had a rendezvous some distance from town marched through the quiet streets to the court house Thoshorlff and deputy were asleep at home but the men aroUsed the jailor and compelled him to accompany them to the sheriffs office and forced hm to divulgo the fact that the keys of the 11 were In the sheriffs safe The men then spent nearly an hour in opening the safe Finally they secured the keys and went tc that part of the building occupied as a jail The cells of the two men were opened and tie older one John Ruggles asked the crowd to be lenient to his brother saying ha was innocent Tho brothers were handcuffed and their bands tied behind their backs and they were led from the jail The party walked several sev-eral blocks aad stopped near the railroad rail-road companys woodshed where a I crossbeam was susponued with ropes from the pine trees The end of the ropes which I had been placed around the necks of the two men were thrown across the beam and I they were told they could make a statement state-ment Tbe brothers had liAlo to say 1 though John still persisted that the younger one was innocent In another moment on a signal from the leaders they were suspended sus-pended about four feet from the ground After securing the ropes tho crowd dis j J 1 persea and the bodies were left there until i cut down by the coroner about 9 oclock Passengers on tho Oregon train W them from morning the sunshine car vrlndors dangling in the 1 |