Show MOB LYNCHES NEGROES AFT R THEY HAVE BEEN LEGALLY CONVICTED HE HEMPSTEAD Tex Oct 22 After Arler After being tried in legal logal form and procedure for tor criminal assault and murder and being sentenced to loath death by hanging Jim Vesle Wesley and Reddick Barton negroes no- no groes were yesterday afternoon taken from the authorities of oC the city and lynched In the public square by an In Infuriated infuriated In- In I mob The District Judge Monday asked ed edth th the Governor for Cor troops to accompany the negroes here from the Jail at al Houston where shere they were safe At the request of oC a lar large c number of ot citizens of or H Hempstead who It Is said laid signed d a n written promise r. r to aid the authorities In preventing any act ad Judge Thompson yesterday afternoon countermanded his hla request st and the troops troop did not accompany th the ne negros Barton was tried first lie He pleaded guilty to criminal assault and then to the murder of oC Mrs Susan Lewis aged 63 63 on Sunday October The jur jury on which there were several se negroes promptly ret returned II a verdict Impo Imposing the d death nth penalty During the afternoon Wesley was put on trial He lie pleaded guilty to the as- as and then to tho the murder charge While his trial was wa proceeding a mob broke Into tho the courtroom anti and attempted attempt attempt- ed to take him It having been heen ascertained ascertained ascer ascer- tamed that the tho Sheriff had asked for troops Tho The dispersed however o and the trial proceeded the State Stale putting through Its testimony In corroboration of the plea of ot guilty In this case too the Jury Imposed the death penalty The of ot the court s sat at about the room at the conclusion of ot the trial when there was a sudden movement nl on the part of ot several men In the room The Sheriff was overpowered o and Wesley Wes Wes- Icy ley was taken by the mob and hurried d away Another nother portion of ot the mob moh while this was going on attacked the Jail lalL where whre Barton had d been taken ken when his I trial was o O ov and the prisoner was surre surrendered ll red to them without a i I I gle The two prisoners were ivere hustled to the public square and there executed b by hanging Neither r of oC them had been neen sentenced although District Judge Thompson had positively el refused to permit them to to waive wal tho the thirty days of grace s-raco allowed I 1 by law The suggestion to burn the negroes met mel with small favor avor It was the general gen gen- eral desire that they die quickly Thc They were hanged to the arm of ot a telephone pole where on only I last month another murderer had been hung by a mob iob The town Is quiet toda today Sheriff was badly Injured In the back hack by ly the rough treatment of oC the mob moh During the first rush a shot was accidentally fired and Sheriff Sparks of ot I Lee ee county was wounded In the stomach thou though h not nol seriously Th The Governor Go was wag Informed of oC th the lynching |