Show OVERPOWER THE JAILER AND LYNCH LUNCH A NEGRO ST. ST LOUIS Feb 17 A A special to the Post-Dispatch Post from New Madrid Mo 1 says that last night a crowd of masked men overpowered the jailer and took a negro Louis Wright a short distance from the town and hanged him Richard Pringles Pringle's negro minstrel show gave an entertainment there Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- night when an altercation arose between one of the musicians and some of the white town boys Several of the boys undertook to take the musicians I out when the negroes on the stage be began began began be- be gan to shoot Several whites in the au audience audience audience au- au were hit but no one was seriously serious serious- ly hurt The negroes ran out the back backway backway backway way to their private car which was soon surrounded by armed men but no violence was wan done owing to the arrival of the town marshal All th the negroes were put Dut in jail and as a result of an examination the name of the one who did the shooting hooting was discovered He was lynched and the others will be released Several of the prisoners were badly beaten Saturday night |