Show WYOMING LYNCHING TWO CONDEMNED MURDERERS AND OFFICER KILLED mob attacks basin jail and murder a deputy sheriff in n endeavor t to secure prisoners who were shot to death news has bes been n received ot of a bloody lynching lunching lyn ching which occurred at basin wyo on sunday and of an appeal for hap from sheriff renton of dig big horn county who inho has arrested a num ber of prominent cattlemen near and has haa appealed to ahn governor of for assistance of the militia in getting ills his prisoners to the dasin jail the lynching lunching lyn ching le malted in the tha killing of two condemns condemn el 1 murderers ani and also in the shooting of a d deputy sheriff C E U pierce who died instantly the murderers were jim gorman german who killed his brother about a year ago and ran off with hf his 3 brothers wife and a prisoner named walters a traveling man who nho killed hilled a widow name named hoover at thermopolis Thermo polls polis hot springs two years ago because she refuse to marry him A mob of about thirty men un masked and in perfect older rode up the east cast bank of the big horo horn dis die housed tethered thir th ir horses and compelled the ferryman to carry them acres the river they made no demonstration until they entered basin when nhen five shots were fired as a warning tho the mob proceeded at once to the building which la Is a court house and jail combined and fired a volley into the jail deputy pierce and special deputy oeo aeo S mead were guarding the prisoners at the time one bullet grazed mead a shoulder and entered heart killing him instantly members of the mob then quickly procured telephone poles and Lat battered the jail doors down don they first came to walters who war waa crouched on hta his cot piteously begging for deicy no needless need lesa torture wits waa resorted to wal was aas shot instantly A still more alarming state of at af fairs Is reported from the vicinity of thermopolis Thermo polls polis about six weeks ago as aa the result of it a feud that baa been so BO bitterly argel a den ben minnick was killed by cattlemen sheriff penton fonton it is claimed has captured the murderers who me ale all prominent catt cat cattlemen temen emen and whose names have apen withheld on account of threats made against again t thern them slier sher iff fenton Is unable to get hla his prison ers era to basin it la Is claimed the same mob that lyn lynched clied gorman german and walters are arc sympathizers and have declared declai ed that sheriff fenton will never ret out of this loa locality lity alive with his fits prisoners fenton has wired the governor of wyoming for permission to use the militia at lander and has also sent a telephone message to cody basin and other wyoming towns for volunteers olun to assist him in upholding the law everywhere hardy vest westerners erners are responding to the call arming them selves and hastening toward ther ino polla it Is probable that the mt ml aitla litla will be ordered to the scene and a bloody battle may be ba fought |