Show AWFUL AFFAIR desperate battle between a sheriffs Sherif Ts posse and a mob bakersfield no 0 jan 4 last night a mob of five hundred masked mashed men entered the jail took calvin snipes murd murderer eror to a forest haaf a mile away and lynched him ton of the tho sheriffs posse wore killed hilled in thep efforts to defend the prisoner about twenty five of the mob wore killed among the dead and wounded are some of the most prominent men in the county the facts which led up to the terrible lynching lunching lyn ching affray aro are as follows aaron wiseman and calvin snipes were partners in an ail illicit distillery in ill mitchell Mit choll county no C and told william osborne and isaac osborne Os borno two bro brothers thors where the distillery was situated william osborne repotted potted re ro it to the officials and helped them to destroy it wiseman and snipes suspected isaac osborne as the reporter and on the night of august 27 1892 armed with Winch winchesters Win chesters thoy they wont to the house of iaac osborne and calling him to tho the door opened fire almost riddling him with bullets wiseman and snipes wore were arrested I 1 but sufficient evidence could not be obtained against wiseman and ho he was released snipes was bound to the superior court on purely circumstantial evidence he was placed in jail and after being confined about two weeks confessed to the killing in the manner above related when wiseman heard this ho he left tho the country ever since the murder the brothers of the dead man have been untiring in their efforts to arouse the public to vengeance for several days the sheriff was kept fully informed and lie he selected twenty of the most dotor determined mined men in the county to assist in guarding the prisoner in his chargo charge A small party attempted to storm the jail monday night but they wore were easily beaten back b by y the sheriff and his posse osborne redoubled his efforts tuesday and by couriers succeeded in getting a mob of nearly four hundred men together near the city the sheriff knowing what was coming doubled the number of guards saw their arms were in perfect order and took every precaution to beat off tho attack it wis was after midnight when tho mob was ready to move upon the jail ail firing commenced soon after and a pitched battle followed imo ime between the mob and the deputies almost at the first volley william osborne Os borno who led the attack was killed in a few minutes john Os borno also fell dead the battle raged until eleven cloven or nearly half the number of deputies had fallen dead and alid several others were badly wounded then the mob with a yell abell of triumph entered tho the jail battered down the coll cell door and led the unhappy snipes away to his doom ho he was given no chance to say a word but was riddled with bullets from a hundred weapons this is the story of tho the lynching lunching lyn ching and fatal conflict with the sheriffs posse in which eleven cloven of their number and twenty seven of the mob were killed and thirty wounded the mob is still under arms but in spite of the intenzo excitement it is not boliver that ther well beany be any more bloodshed unless a call is made on the governor for troops if the troops aie summoned every mountain for miles around will assemble to repulse them as the people have but little respect for any thing but local law and will resent outside attempts to force them into submission As far as they are concerned the case is id closed as both tho the sheriffs shori iTs posse and mob are regarded as having done their duty in dying with their boots on A courier has just arrived at marion from and states that the mob instead of dispersing remained on the ground the seat scat cord handful of the sheriff posse also remained under arms and they are being rapidly reinforced all through the day they continued to receive accessions to their ranks and by noon the party numbered about which is now increased to feeling ran high and after a few speeches the posse resolved to revenge the sheriffs death another battle took place shorty after noon in which at least twenty five more wore killed and the firing is still going on what will bo be the ro result ailt no one here can tell telf but the troops are expected another account says about sundown the alist attack was made and at least armed men marched up road and then with a howl broke on the run rull for the jail the garrison was ready for them and seventy five rifles poured a direful hail of bullets into the determined lyn ly chers they wavered a moment as a score of them wont went down but with the steadiness of veterans closed up their ranks and rushed ed forward again under the leadership of a gigantic mountaineer who urged them bornn forward ard with the old rebel yell again the rifles of tho the besieged rang out and this time they were answered by a concentrated fire from the mob the aim was deadly ayery window on the exposed side of the building occupied by the defenders wore were shot out and ail d a dozen non men i fell wounded or killed the bodies hampered the deputies who wore were unharmed and only a few could get close to tho the windows before tho the mob was on them there was a briggle Brug glo gle but what was seventy five mon men against A few revolver shots and clubbed rifles and all was over the deputies with their leador leader sheriff mortally wounded wore were in the hands of the mob and every one of them wore were looking down the muzzle of at least three Winch winchesters Win chesters thero there was no hope of further resistance and tho fato of tho the murderers was sealed without waiting or picking up tho the dead or caring for tho the wounded tile tho mob made a rush for tho the door of the jail and it wont went down before tho the shoulders of allvoro a of stalwart prisoners colls wore reached and they wore were the only onos ones in tho the jail tile alio mob had any in breaking down half dead with fear they wore drugged dragged out into tho the open air where ropes wore placed around their nocks necks and with mon men mad anad with the thirst of for gore thoy flioy wore dragged over tho the ico ice covered rocks to a piece picco of land a half of milo mile away behind them followed tho the rest of mob firing at tho the prostrate forms overy every ini minute tho the victims were undoubtedly dead before they wore dragged twenty yards and it was a more semblance bom Eem blance of human buman forms that were strung up when villon tho woods were reached then tho the mob returned to look for tho the dead and wounded in a little and on oil tho the road bod bed in front of tho the jail twenty civo bodies were found and in three buildings eight moro dead and about thirty thi ity injured somo some fatally sheriff was shot twice avico through the chest and throe times through tho the abdomen salt lako lake herald |