Show MOB AFTER NEGRO LBAVANWOHTH KAN CITIZENS ATTEMPT TO LYNCH BRUTE He Attempted an Assault Upon a WellKnpwn Young WomanIs Removed to Pen for SafeKeeping Leavenworth Ian Jan 12MIss I Eva Roth a wellknown young woman of tola city was assaulted on South Broadway the fashionable residence street of the city at G10 p in by Fred Alexander colored who had followed her for a distance of fol twelve blocks Alexander failed to accomplish his I object was arrested shortly after the I occurrence and taken to the oflice of the Chief of Police which was quickly surrounded by an angry mob numbering num-bering nearly one thousand breathing threats of vengeance Miss Roth Is employed at one of the I large stores and wr1 home going lo her supper She loon became aware lat she was followed and within 3 few blocks of home entered n neighboring house for the purpose ot throwing the man oft her track Alexander kept on and Miss Roth again started hmc and I when at a point nearly opposite the resIdence i of Prof Evans of the high school she was met by Alexander who seized her around the throat and bore her to the ground In falling his lingers slipped from her thrOat long enough to enable her to give n cry for help This cry was heard by Prof Evans who responded when the assailant left the girl and fed A crowd had gathered among hem a young colored girl who told who the assailant was The police were notified and Officer McDonald went out When at Seventh and Cherokee streets the officer saw Alexander and upon undertaking un-dertaking to arrest him the negro attempted at-tempted to escape but n blow from the officer club reduced him to submission sub-mission when he was taken to the station sta-tion News of the attempted assault spread like wildfire and Ina few momenta the streets around the station were filled with a mass 01 excited min deter excted mined to lynch Alexander If he could be obtaluod The police In the mean time spirited the man away and when the doors were broken open no one was found Alexander was taken out through an alleyway by the police placed in a hack and driven to tho Kansas State penitentiary at Lansing He will be kept there until the officers deem It safe to bring him to the city Miss Roth recognized her asasllant and Identified him to the officers Alexander Al-exander has been watched by the police lately as he Is the suspected murderer o Miss Pearl Forbes who was assault rd and killed November GUI three blocks west of the scene of tonights I attempt |