Show THREE NEGROES lYNCHED LYNCH BUT NONE OF THI THEM CUILTy TY ii Crime is Committed by a Frenzied Mob at Pierce Fierce City Mo too o oi oBId i BId Pe People Are Driven From the Little Town and aad Their Houses Burned Springfield J Mix io i An Aug 20 Mob rule rile as prevailed In ID Pierce Pieree City since yea relay and aDd aa as a z result remit three eve ave ve lost their lives and all the Mack black MackI blackL bJ ck L I epic driven from frene the tile town and aud their oases burned The most moat mo t frightful part of f the awful y which began boe a with wigs the order of Gazella Wild is ise e well grounded belief which it Is L Just dawned upon the now sobered people of Pierce City at the three men lynched were inno I nt ut of the terrible crime So enraged en r vere ere the citizens at the ther tit r wg ws w of the tile murder of Miss Miris Wild that fair tali hearing bear Ic was not given iven the ac ae lied eed men and aDd those upon whom who sus don doe was wax cast were doomed Those bb hu be were killed ed were William Siloam Godley hanged front from th th 0 l I Ir r rob of the Lawrence hotel and his dy day riddled with bullets bull rench 3 Godley grandfather gra of o Wf m Godley shot In his own owa OW house ete rte Hampton Hamton burn burned d in his own C use aae but probably shot shat before the th fire t is s believed that none of the three r n lynched was wa guilty of the murder 1 Yip Miss Ia Wild Three suspects are ate un ua unI I r arrest George Lark a railway per por perr r i at Springfield Mo 0 Will Flavors Flavon L c L 10 to a porter sorter at Oklahoma City O 0 Td T Td Td d Eugene Barrett at Mount Vernon Vernona x a Lark Is ta the man to whose wh se honse ho hot hon te tee t e bloodhounds followed the murder murders I s trail trait Lark says ays the murderer v wih wt h him but fled Barrett is believed to t be toe innocent He Heis Heu is u made a statement accusing Flavors T T one of the tM suspects I will wUl be taken to tree City The governor has bas been beep L eked to offer a reward for the arrest c the murderer derer but says ays he will wait waitr r Ir more definite information Quiet was restored 1 in Pierce City this but bat the determination to per perr pert r t It BO no negroes to live lIv there hereafter is Ise x e IY ery general rat and the fugitives will not note r e allowed to return The funeral of Miss Kia Wild took place f t day MIlLY and aM was w witnessed by several i 3 people Pierce PIe City Is I near the junction Of of ur Dr divisions of the Frisco Friso and trains from om all directions brought in Jarge arg j umbe s of armed men Ix brut nt on blood abed If necessary When the meb mob Ja last night went to the section ft of r the city occupied by the negroes n roe some sonic one in Iii 1 the ue cabins opened firs fir but n ii one wa wu was hit The mob then destroyed tree tae Ul settlement hut butt t the financial loss 1 Is Jt not t great eat Reckless s firing broke Droke several seven pI ite glass p windows and a train w was fired into inte In InThe The rifles taken takeR from th the Pierce City military company it ig is I expected will all 11 be returned Members of the com company company pany themselves elvea were out hunting for forthe forthe forthe the escaping negroes ne roell with rifles ri u and this suggested the idea of taking All the guns suns The Th real kcal stores sold aoki out their arms ear but several applications from negroes ere e refused The mob was composed of 1000 or more Wrote and no DO masks were wre re used Thirty negro n ro rofa families fa were driven from their houses hou eL Many of or the negroes who fled tied to the city are hiding in the surrounding woods while stifle others have gone greater peater distances in seeking safety Citizens say that negroes will not net b be permitted to live here bere in n the future and nd nel that the few negroes ne not already expelled ex expelled expelled will be obliged to go goThe goThe The cause of all the bloodshed was the killing of Miss Mies G la Wild Sunday afternoon as she was wu returning to her bel home one mile in the country after at attending attending attending tending church in town She started home alone Jone her hel brother lingering be behind behind behind hind About out one mile from town the brother found her hor with her throat cut emt lying lifeless near a culvert culver under which her assailant had attempted to tod drag d he Evidence of a terrible struggle gb gle was waa shown A negro was s seen Men en sit sitting sitting ting on the bridge a short time before the tragedy occurred It Is supposed that the negro sprang upon her when she the was warn passing and attempted attempt to force fone her beneath beth the tile bridge She Sh fought with such suck desperation that he could tot rot accomplish hIs hie purpose e and he cut her throat in the struggle Her body was not violated On bloodhounds were taken to t the scene e and the girls bloody handkerchief hand band handkerchief kerchief was laid before bel re th them m They immediately caught the trail teal and ran with full speed to the horn home h me of tf Joe Lark where on being bell admitted d They rhey rushed into the bed room and sprang prang upon the bed |