| Show TO lf mm J dan arata hanged iv bv a mob TRE THE BODT BOD RIDDLED man mam fired into it thousands Wit witness lieSs the horrible scene Dic july 27 wednesday nigh BC B 0 lightfoot an old ola grand army man was brutally murdered by dan A Is i an 11 I 1 linn een n ceper k aper of oeun un yau ya i u uetha murderer was placed in the county bailand ja jail iland and the matter to r was discussed all day yesterday by th the e pa people ople many threats of lynching lunching lyn ching were made but not much attention was paid to them as it ass thought the time for frontier I 1 r justice in denver was passed lost last evening however there wa waa at large mass meeting of unemployed men at seventeenth seven teen h and market streets to there wre were speeches made on the pres prea mt nt financial depres depression aion and kindred when the speakers were a in lal 1 fray cray whiskered veteran wearing a grand grand arm army uniform mounted the end shouted follow follo w me I 1 he crowd understood him and rn opie o booe up ane alter after nim him to thu tho county jail on the way they were i bied by many hundreds and when 10 1 0 jail was reached the crowd number oil 7 u ally ily the jail is a gewand new and massive ive one and it was not thought that it could be entered by the crowd beams and every other available form of battering implements Jo however wever were into play and in a short time tee buti ide door on the north side aide was bettered battered in F at this point captain crews the jailor an and d guards assisted by some of the city police turned a neavy stream ef water upon the crowd but it had bad no effect on 0 1 air ardor I 1 y this time lima the be crow in the streett ar an arun und un d the jail hul hid dwelled to at lens jens the p people ople in tha jail turned tamed off tho the lichti beaving the entrance ent ranco in da darkness rk the crowd secured beadli headlights gats f from rom borna cale cable cars anti and brought tb them em t to the icene acene when the door leading to the jail office fell fall in ane guards in sida began to tire fire the aired mob eid id not hesitate al though two of their number received painful wounds the guard was quickly overpowered and as the jailer would n it t div give a any in ini form formation altion the crowd started in search for alatas cell when it was reached it was quickly broken into one of the mob with a knife ripped at the murderers mur derera abdomen inter antei and he fie was dragged out to the street pulled up to the limb of a tree and his bin body riddle 1 with bullets Du lleta lets finally the rope broke and the bleed bog body fell iut into tho jhb gutter with a splash some of the crowd yelled to burn it but finally a number of men seized the rape and dragged drage ed the corpse by the neck through t the mud into the heart of the bag business idess portion of the city at and curtis streets the body was again strung up to a tele graph prole pole and it was a quarter ol of an h hour our be before LO re the police took it down and placed it in the mongue the crowd then dispersed A number of ail officials were badly burt by missiles tb thrown rown bv tle mob |
