Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-30 | Page 1 | Mob Thirsted for Lives of Helpless Men

j Mob Thirsted for Lives of Helpless Men OMAHA, Ne!)., Sept. 29. Brown was taken by the mob from the county courthouse buiiding, where the county jail w;is located, bhot, burned, hanged ar.U then dragged about the city's streets. At this time the courthouse was burning badly and ten members of the police department were trapped on the fourth floor with a smouldering smoulder-ing hot "stirway as the only ave-! ave-! nue of escape. Several of the policemen police-men thrust their heads out of the I windows to shout for ladders, but the only response they got was a rain of bullets together with such 1 remarks as "Let 'em burn." Finally, Fi-nally, after securing a water hose, the officers, playing a stream be O fore them as they went, descende the hot stairway to the bn torn floor and safety. , j! : OUJ