Salt Lake Herald | 1897-12-09 | Page 1 | Brutal Lynching in Arkansas

IITA AL L NCHING IN I ARM1SA8 I CONSTABLES BODY FOUND NEAR THE ROADSIDE Indications That the Life Had Been Choked Out of Him By a Miners Mob Fort Smith Ark Dec SJames Murray constable at Jenny Lind a coal mining < own in Sebastian county was lynched on Sunday night by a mob of coal miners Constable Murray went to Bonanza Sunday afternoon to arrest a miner named Grant McBrooom He captured McBroom without trouble and started for Jenny Lind about midnight mid-night That was the last seen of Murray Mur-ray alive The constables body was found lying ly-ing near the roadside about 30 yards from the shaft of the Bonanza mine His hands were tied securely behind his body and his neck was black and blue showing plainly the imprint of a rope which had choked the life out of his body Blood oozed from a dozen bullet wounds in the officers body and his clothing was torn into shreds The coroner began an investigation and it has been fully developed that he was waylaid by a mob of McBrooms friends composed of miners determined deter-mined upon rescuing the prisoner and that Murray was lynched the body cut down and placed by the roadside Mc Broom was arrested today