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Show fOB HANGS- TWO MEXICANS FROM PUEBLO BRIDGE oSlIG Murder of Policeman Is Quickly Followed by Vengeance; Prisoners Taken From City Jail. Efforts of Authorities to Circumvent Frenzied Crowd Prove to Be Vain; Work Soon Over. ITKHMl, Tolo.. Scj.t. Two M - icatis were Taken from tae city jail to-nibt to-nibt l'v a inch of armed citi.en, driven driv-en in an automobile to the Kourth street 1'ri'io, near the city limit find 1 1 : t n : - 1 . The bodies wer? found 4"i niinu'cs alter their tnjdur". Tin? lynching follrwcd arrest of two Mcxie.ins charged with the murder early today of Patrolman Jeff Kvaits. T1' men were taken from the city j;.il at o 'eloe!:. Tlie mob lcadi rs usetl strategy to ge; the jtrdice officers off their guard. A riot call was Rent in from the steel works disr riet and the pnt rol, loaded wi'. Ji officers, hurried to t ! scene. As jioon as the wagon was out of sight, the mob quietly marched to the city hall, a commit tee ma rched into t he office, covered the desk .sergeant, Gar Mel'af-f Mel'af-f erty, with revolwrs, and commanded him to turn over t he keys to the jail fells. They then forced him to remain quiet ly in his chair while t hey went into the cell room, took the two Mexicans Mexi-cans from their evils rind to the street. Here a portion of the mob piled into automobiles with their prisoners and sped away for the fcccc of the lynching. lynch-ing. SUSPECT A RUSE; DISCOVER TOO LATE. Upon reaching the scene of the supposed sup-posed riot and finding nothing amiss, Night Captain Sinclair, in charge of the squad of officer.-, suspected a ru.o and ordered the patrol to head for the city hall with all possible speed. Ho found ! that the mob had been there and gone, j Hoping that 1 might overtake the mob, the captain summoned his officers offi-cers to get back into the patrol and a search for the mob and prisoners commenced. com-menced. When the officers reached the West Fourth street bridge, tlv mob had dispersed and the officers found the bodies of the two Mexicans hanging twenty feet a pa rt front the girdors of the bridge. Both wene dead. It was reported earlier in the evening i that the two men had been removed to 'the county jail for safe keening. It was laVr learned that the sheriff had taken them back to the city hall where persons per-sons called in to identify them could do so more easily. The lynching was conducted in a heavy rain storm. The mot) formed behind the new city hall, which is a block away from the old city hall, where the city ja 11 is located. As soon as the patrol wapon with its load 'of officers loft the station the mob (Continued on Page 5, Column 7.) 'MOB IN PUEBLO HANGS MEXICANS (Coiitiiiui-.d rrotrt I'agD One.) imn lo ,1 lo tl.e ol'l ly I, .,11 . i-i' h-i'ir-. Hoy i-larli"! one i li, 'on ii':r oi't'I J'a'rol-inan J'a'rol-inan ' ohll, a l,.',!f r.'i'V, away (ioio U. pl.ieo wto-re th" looh wan foroo-d, tt.le' a K.m l n hlH f ari'l .".i...-:i.-l him to mil i-iel-r hin itrvolv r ni.'l animijnlMon. The. i'-nV. f li-o-.'ilil'n (i In ro-nr a vln-ilow. vln-ilow. win: of He: mob nllfio-'l 01 to II, '! win, low, ,oli,l,-, .', K in through the. tj',r::n al tin: offU'-r aiel or'h rwl him to throw up 1,1m haioln. He 'li'l. Tlo-ii about llfiy rr.'-n, vvllli hsnUkcr-ehU hsnUkcr-ehU Tn over llielr Ino-n, iiiHrch":d In from the i'-.ir, took tlo: kryn from the d:nk ar-K'-aiii anil w.lnol City Itelth wfflcur Jim liyrnc, who ball.'lie'l to be III the offee at the time, to o,'-n the Jail ceTs. I INI) THEIR VICTIMS SLEEPING IN CELLS. They fouinl the two Mexieana uleplnf. They were Mruek over the heaiin with some blunt li.htrumeiit to render them ur.-uoi,:" ur.-uoi,:" loun. They were then draefl out of their eelln Into waltli.B automobile! iii,! whlfke'l to the brPlKe. Here the men tii"l their haioln to their Bhlen. placed roe n aiourel their neekn and p'jfhed thern oit the biiuc-, the fall brraklnis their ne, kn. Tho n ob then disappeared. 'tie- roroner wan eailed. He rut the booiei, of the two men down, and tonlp.it ihey lie on niabii In the morgue by the M!e of the bode of I'atrolman Jeff Kvans. An lo the e!i Izeimhlp of the two Mexl-eann Mexl-eann ll'tle in known here. Hut It in said that they frefuei,tiy have made the bost ti.at th'-v were eltizenH of Mexico anvi fcoi'tlern In VIlia'H army. |