Show LYNCHING IN PROSPECT A Posse in Illinois Hunting for a Brute to Hang Him OAKLAND Ills Aug21 A large crowd of men are out hunting Louis Myers who is wanted for a diabolical crime last Friday He wont to the house of a neighbor named Will and assaulted Mrs Will seriously injuring her Shortly after he met his 11 year T o niece on the road and assaulted her afterwards hanging hang-ing her to a tree She was found and cut down before life was extinct but is not expected to live c S t I After this deed Myers returned heme beat his wife and one of his children severely and then took to the woods carrying with him a rifle and revolver and ordering his wife to send him provisions provis-ions that nIght A posse has been hunting I hunt-ing for him and once or twice he has been I sighted and shots exchanged the only l result so far being the slight wonndincr I of one of the posse |