Show J WilD WORK OF A MOB IN RN WYOMING t t Two Murderers Shot Down in Their Cells at Basin Ba in and a Deputy Sheriff Killed Kill While Attempting empting At to Defend His Uis Hi Prisoners Prison rs Sheriff Asks for forM forS S Militia M it to Protect Him from Cattlemen men Accused Acc s d of Murder Mu 4 5 Mont ont July 18 lA A Miner B BUTTE special from Rod Red Lodge Mont says sas saysA sasA A state of lawlessness lawle e IS that beggars description now prevails In northwest Wyoming as a a 8 result of which all aU law lawand lawand lawand and order seems to have been abol abel abolished abolIshed From President nt L L Moffett t tor of or the Montana and Wyoming Tele Telephone T Telephone le phone compan who Is now making a atour atour atour tour of inspection of his hia company hues jines jin J comes the ho news ne s of ot a It bloody blood lynching which occurred at Basin Wyo just across the Wyoming line early this morning and of an appeal R Del lot for h ht Jp l from Sheriff Fenton of Big Horn coun county count county ty t who has arrested a 2 number numb r of prominent t near Thermopolis lis us and has appealed to the governor of Wyoming for or assistance of the mi ml militia litia Jilin in getting his prisoners to th Basin jail Three Victims of Mob Nob Law The lynching this morning resulted in the killing kUling of oC two condemned mur murderers murderers and also in n the shooting of a n deputy sheriff C E Pierce who died instantly The murderers were Jim Gorman who killed his brother about a It year y r rago ago and ran off with his JUs brothers wife and a 0 prisoner named Walters a traveling man who vrho killed a widow named Hoover at Thermopolis hot springs two years ago because she re refused refused refused fused to marry him It was reported to Sheriff Fenton last Wednesday morning that a mob was coming up to Basin along the Big BigHorn BigHorn BIgHorn Horn river from froni Hiattsville Hiat t vi le and Ten slip sill for the purpose l of lynching Gor Gorman Gorman man mn and Walters Val As a measure of precaution the sheriff took those two men and a n horse thief out ou of oC o the jail and secreted them In a gully nea town ton under guard of Deputy Sheriffs Felix Feltz Fel x Alston Aiston and C E Price Made a Dash for Liberty Gorman who has exceptionally small hands managed to slip his handcuffs and nuke moke his escape Deputy Price fired one shot eliot at ilie he 1 fugitive as he disappeared in the brush but the bul bui bullet bullet I let went wide Gorman swam sw m the t e Big Horn river and made for the moun mountains mountains A posse of seven lH en men quickly organized and Gorman was recaptured early earl yesterday esterday morning on en Trapper creek about fifty miles from Basin Last evening a mob of about thirty 1 men unmasked and in perfect ct order rode up the east bank of or the Big Horn dismounted tethered their horses and compelled the ferryman to carry them I Iacross across the river They Th made no degi j I until they hey entered Basin when five shots were werf fired as na a warn warning warnIng warning ing The mob proceeded pro at once to tc the building which is court house and Jail combined and fired a volley into nto the he jail Deputy Sheriff Pierce and SpecIa cIa Deputy george S were guarding the prisoners at nt toe the time One bullet grazed Meades shoulder and en entered n Prices heart killing him In Instantly I Jail Doors Poors Battered Down Members of the mob then quickly procured pr cured telephone poles ioles ana anil battered the thc jail doors down They The first came cameto to Walters Valters who was as crouched on his hie cot pIteously begging for fot fo mercy No needless torture was to Wal Val Walters Walters I was wag shot eliot instantly Tho The mob next found Gorman wese body was wa pierced d by bullets bullet and nd I was WIts left presumably dead He lingered however until S this morning when he died Situation Grave A still more alarming state of ot af affairs affairs affairs fairs is reported from the vicinity of Thermopolis About sis sL weeks age 8 as asa a result of the range feud that has been so bitterly waged a Ben Minnick was WitS killed by cattlemen Sheriff Fenton it is claimed has cap captured captured captured the murderers who are all aU prominent prominent nent neat cattlemen and whose names have been withheld on account of threats made against him Sheriff Fenton is unable to get his prisoners to Basin I It Is claimed the same mob that tha i lynched Gorman and Walters are sym sympathizers sympathizers and have hae declared that Sher Sheriff SherIff iff Fenton will vill never get out of the lo 10 locality locality alive aUe with his prisoners Soldiers Needed Weeded Sheriff Fenton has wired the govern goern governor or of Wyoming for permission to us the state militia at Lander and has hM j also sent a telephone message to Cody Basin Meeteetse and other Wyoming towns tc asking for tor volunteers to assist assis him in upholding the law Jaw Everywhere I hardy westerners are responding to the call caU arming themselves and amid hastening r toward tG vard it Is probable I I that the militia w Ill ll be ordered to the scene seene and maybe a bloody battle will wll willbe be bc fought The country about Thermo Thermon oUe is a wild and lawless In wIese one oneA oneA oneA A message mes age received re at Cody this morning m from Sheriff Fenton stated that he still heM held hel the prisoners pr ners In his Ids Idson on and that he believed he could hold bold out until i came |