Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-10-07 | Page 1 | Mob Tries to Lynch Would-be Murderer

IB TRIES TO LYNCH WOULD-BE MURDERER Benjamin Roy Spurgeon Shoots and Serious Wounds Girl in New York. ' i By International News Service. NEW YORK, Oct. C Benjamin Roy Spurgeon, 27 years old, was arrested and locked up tonight after police reserves had fought their way through a mob of several hundred men who were struggling to lynch the priboner. Deliberately and apparently without the slightest cause, Spurgeon tonight twice sdiot and seriously serious-ly wounded 12-year-old Dora EUroblf. as the little girl was standing in the en-tranco en-tranco of an east side moving picture houso talking to a girl friend. "I don't know why I shot the little girl," he told the police. "I don't like girls. Thirteen years ago I killed a girl at Rcdburgh, Mo., because sl'e was not true to me. and In 1007 I stabbed and killed a man in St. Louis." In tho prisoner's pockets was found a memorandum book containing the notations: nota-tions: "Evelyn N'csblt, Brevoort hotel; Lillian Russell. 2G7 Went Eighty-ninth street; Mayor Gaynor. St. J tunes and Two Hundred Hun-dred and Eighth avenue; Avlss Llnnul and Anna Aumullcr." Fifteen cartridges and tho revolver wore also found on him. Spurgeon was taken from tho station to the Bellevuo hospital for observation. He was once a printer, he told the police.