Show MISSOURI MOB LYNCHES LYNCHES' WHITE MAN AND NEGRO LEXINGTON Mo Aug 12 Charles 1 Charles white and Harry Harr Gates colored colored col col- ored were taken from the county Jail here b by a masked mob at this mornIng morning morn- morn Ing InS and anc lynched Inched They were charged with wih killing George W. W Johnson a wealthy farmer who surprised them at his henhouse near town a tc few days tays a ago o. o and Gates Gate were arrested on the day following the shooting after oter an exciting chase chas Johnson was one of the wealthiest t and most respected men In Inthe Inthe Inthe the community and the feeling against the t two TO men was Intense Last Lt night shortly shorty after aler midnight armed aed men came to town by t twos os and threes most of ot them masked m They massed finally near th the courtyard In which th the county Jail jai Is IB situated A demand upon the Jailer for tor the prisoners meeting with wih refusal several members of the mob who had come well Wel prepared broke In the outer door and made quickly for the cel cells of ot the murderers It I took them thirty minutes to cut through the ste steel 1 doors dors was taken ken out first then Gates Without encountering any serious objection the mob started with wih their victims for tor a point half halt a mile mie south of ot town There was granted o tOI make a et statement ement He said that Gates Gates had shot Johnson after ater firing frIng three that when the last shot was wo fired Gates Gates' had hold of ot Johnson Before being killed Johnson had exchanged shots with the men and G Gates was wn found to have been shot In the right hip statement finished the men were up to a tree There they were cre left hanging and the mob dispersed quietly at 2 o'clock after an hours hour's work Only one shot was fired and that was to put out an Incandescent 11 light ht In front of ot a livery stable tres as a the mob pase passed by on the way to the scene of ot the lynching ng alias aUas Sacks had lived hero for a number of ot years eaT and left leCt a n family He had a 0 bad reputation Gates who W was lS 30 years old had served ser ed a term In Inthe Inthe Inthe the penitentiary for Cot burglary committed In Lexington |