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Show m DECLINED TO BE LYNCHED. A Louisiana n..prado Make th Jail t III. Fortrr... SiiHEVF.rouT, La., Feb. 3. Homer, the parish seat of Claiborne, bas been the scene of intep.se excitement the past two days. Saturday night a mob battered a hole in the jail and six men went through the passage to kill Link Waggoner, a desperado recently captured. cap-tured. Link, who had two revolvers, shot two of the men in the arms and held the others at bay. Waggoner was not in a cell and did the shooting from the corridor, dodging into different apartments. In trying to pull open the door of a fellow-prisoner's cell, the latter lat-ter caught the door with one hand to keep him out, when Waggoner drew a knife and cut the fellow's fingers off. The sheriff says his friends furnished him with arms. |