Deseret Evening News | 1905-08-08 | Page 1 | Lynching in Texas

I LYNCH INK IN IX TEXA W o Determined Unit tillit Majors Should Not Have neo Tex Tax Au Aug S At 2 this morning mounted citizens numbering about COO OO surrounded the tho court houS mind and Ind jail Jai mud and Inet utter making of nt Sheriff Tv tho the Sailor Jailor and und mill all ni tin thu til deputy sheriffs broke open the tho Jail JUI took tOOJI Hunk blank Illk Majors out nut and Ind after heating heat heul II tug ing his hung humr him from the now bridge He lie 10 IH is still hanging hlll there ther and 1111 the mob moh IH is II I In tho the el city Majors lad hlll recently hon convicted for tor assault and 1111 given the death Ileath p penalty nl hut but haul hal been bean grunted granted a I now nou nol trial h by imy Judge ge In iii order oller th that t there therB might be Lie bl no 10 opportunity for forthe or orthe the court of criminal appeals to reverse time the an on a n technicality