Show DIE GAMEr I Last M Shouted ly Y I Convicted Murderer as Mob J 1 Lynchellm GALLED TO HIS BROTHER I People of Fort Scott Kan Hang Two Murderers OLDER DEFIED HIS CAPTORS Placed tho Noose Around His Own Neck and Died Cursing the Crowd His Brother Equally Tearless in the Hands of the Mob but He did not Manifest the Spirit of Bravado of His Belative Was Making a Statement when tho Noose was Put Around His Neck and in a Moment Ho was Strangling to Death Crime for which They were Lynched was the Killing of a Young German Farmer The Jail where They were Held Wrecked Third Han Secreted Fort Scott Ran Jan 20 George Sll bee and Ed Sleeks half brothers who were convicted of murder here earlier in the week were lynched by n mob In the county Jallyard tonight At 0 late hour their bodies were dangling from two trees in the yard the authorities having been so completely surprised that no effort had been made to remove re-move the ghastly evidences of the mobs work KILLED A YOUNG FARMER I The two men who hailed from Kansas Kan-sas City had been convicted of murder mur-der in the first degree their victim being be-ing 0 young German farmer named Leopold Edllngor whose murder occurred oc-curred near this city In October last The murderers disposed of Edllngers pair of mules one horse and a wagon in Cedar county BELONGED TO GANG OF THIEVES Amos Phillips an accomplice of the two brothers in the crime was convicted con-victed yesterday ot intirder In the first degree The evidence showed that the degIee < three men belonged to a gang of thieves who had been regularly disposing I dispos-ing of their plunder in Bates county SURPRISED THE OFFICERS The lynching was the work of a mob I that began gathering in the vicinity of the county Jail soon after dark but i the purpose of the assembled cIowds I seems not to have been suspected until the jail was attacked A barb wire trocha that had been previously built around the Jail was torn down the heavy doors leading to the prison were battered In and when the mob came howling out of the Jail with its intended intend-ed victims the interior of the place looked a If It had been wrecked by dynamite DEFIED THE MOB George Sllbcc the older of the two brothers defied his captors until the last lie placed the noose around his own neck and died cursing the crowd Just as ho was Jerked Into eternity he turned to his brother with an oath and commanded him to die game The brother obeyed maintaining an outward out-ward calm until he was Jerked Into the ail BOASTED OF HIS CRIME Before this Sllbce had shouted to the mob In defiant tones that he himself shot Edllnger and that Amos Phllipps struck him on the head with an axe He persisted that his brother Ed did net pai tlcipatc In the crime CURSED HIS CAPTORS I Be sure and get Phlllpps the j doomed man urged Then shouting to I his tormentors he bade them with n curse to string him up The vengeance I manifested toward the accomplice j I Phlllpps was probably duo to the act that Philipps soon after his arrest made a full confession of the crime though when he was put upon trial ho repudiated this earlier confession HANGED TO A TREE Ed Meeks was equally fearless in the hands of the mob but he did not manifest the spirit of bravado shown by his brother His last words were Hang me if you will but I did not help kill Edlinger George shot him and Phlllpps struck him with an ax 1 did didThe The doomed man got no farther In his statement for four or five men had him by the feet others drew the noose around his neck throwing the loose end over a limb and in 0 moment he I was strangling to death I AFTER THIRD MAN When finally satisfied with their vengeance ven-geance upon the two brothers the leaden of the mob went back to the Jail In search of old man Phlllpps In the meantime the jail keeperu had secreted se-creted him In I room In the rear of the structure and when the lynchers came back they were told that Phlllpps had been hurried away After a brief search tho lynchcis I seemed satisfied with tho explanation and left the I scene thus sparing the IJfe of the third murderer Philipps will probably bo I taken out of the city There Js Home question as to the old mans sanity I DIRECT CAUSE FOR LYNCHING The direct cause of the lynching was I a vicious attack by Sllbee and Mocks upon Deputy Sheriff Behmer When tho latter went to the cell tonight to Inspect the cage Bohmcr discovered that the convicts had sawed the hinges of the cell door all but off He entered the I cage to remove the prisoners to another cell and as ho did so was I foiled by Sllbce with an Iron bar which I the prisoners had secreted Other dcp I I i titles came to BehmerH rescue and in I the scrimmage fred several shots at the convicts One bullet took effect In Sllbeos IeH MEN WERE SHACKLED j This shooting attracted a crowd wild stories of thp assault were soon in circulation among the crowd which gathered around tile Jail l lWIt only required the few loadqrH who camo later to incite the gathering to violence vio-lence After the mum ult upon Deputy Behmer Sllboe and Mccks were shack I led and the irons were still upon ttu as they were swung to their rcalh thl |