Show lynehnl and Uiddtnt PEiiitsncno Va Nov 23 Robert Bland who on Thursday last attempted to commit a criminal assault on Miss Annie Gee aged 16 years daughter I ot Hon Charles I Gee I L aIled States inspector of lumber lum-ber at Slits Alaska but whose family reside at Prince George County a short distance from DIs putanta Station on the Norfolk < Western railroad was taken from thejail of Prince George County today and lynched l A mob of forty men mounted and well masked went to the resident of Henry King the negro jailer and demanded de-manded the keys of the jail Ho stoutly refused to surrender the keys or go to the jail and unlock the door TIle mob then burst open the doors J rkn of his hoUse and again demanded the keJ On his refusal to give them up they placed a rope around his 1 and dragged Irf to the jail es cral hundred yards from the house Despltn ys 11t tmi King still refused to tell where the keys to the jail were Jut before the jail was readied tho keys were heard rattling in Kings pocket The mob then took the keys from him and carried him Into the jail I and made him lead the tray YII i lrct to lie Cell in which Bland was confined con-fined Bland had nothing b gay when the > nchers came to his cell but was perfectly quiet Ho was tied hand and foot and was carried ofT about seventyfive yards from the jail where he wn strung up by a rope to the branch of a t lee le-e pltcously for 1e but tlie ly nchers were deaf to his appeals for mercy eli body i riddled with bullets and left dangling from tlie tree where he was found at daylight day-light this morning Bland was about 21 years of age and worthless character He was arrested Thursday day night by a posse of men who went in pursuit of him and he h been sent on by magistrates to Austin Aus-tin for trial at tile November term of tlie county court |