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Show JUSTICE, IF NOT LAW. A Fiend Who Chopped Up His Wife and Children Taken Out and Hanged to a Telegraph INle. Findi.ay, O , March 31. Joseph Lyttle, au inmate of the National Soldiers' home at Dayton, butchered his divorced wife and two" daughters iu a horrible manner here yesterday yester-day morning. He returned home Sunday on leave of absence, and stayed quietly in the house witli the unsuspecting though estranged family. Yesterday he carefully I sharpened a murderous hatchet. After j breakfast he crushed the skull of his daughter Delia with the weapon, and, leaving her for dead, dealt a blow at his daughter Emma, who escaped with a slight wound. Then he rushed upon the invalid who was oneo his wife, and a terrible struggle ensued. He landed six blows on the woman's head without with-out breaking the skull. The fiuger of her right hand was cut off by a blow. When tho woman was j exhausted her fiendish ex.. husband crushed her skull. He then cut the piano, pictures and furniture to pieces and then gave himself him-self up. The only motive assigned is total depravity. At 12:80 Ibis morning a mob stormed the jail, took Lyttle out and hanged him. When the mob first reached the jail they could not gain admittance. They then procured oil well drills and battered down, the dors'! Lyttle was dragged into the street and ta H Jp-a-tertfgTr jrroJVi'i-WE" innat iiHwi.f Hi' icck, out just as hiSvas being pulled up a shot from a nraper was beard and the ( rope parted. Thjt determined men were not to be balked, however. Lyttle was picked up and taken tin the nearest telegraph pole, where he was strung up. His victims are still alive, but .the deaths of Mrs. Lyttle and her daughter ielia are hourly expected. |