Show MM mm UP HEAD OF cm government TWICE HANGED BUT EACH TIME SAVED PY OFFICERS court house fired and many injured in rioting which followed attempt of mob to lynch negro for brutal crime omaha A blood crazed mob at tempted to lynch mair I 1 d I 1 smith sunday afternoon and later william brown a hero to a pole the mayor Is in a critical condition at u hospital A rope was thrown around his neck and he was pulled oft the round twice before two police officers hue ceedee in cutting alie rope ind him into an automobile and aw y from the mob the mayor had gone to the court house and lidid a consultation with sheriff CI irk I 1 merging aiom the e lie met the moll and be ann to make an appeal for law and order somebody Some bodi lynch him and i number of the mob threw a rope around his neck half a dozen men dragged alie ma vor half a block and threw the loose end of the rope u a trolley pole twice chev drew alie mabis bodi from alie ground iucci time two police cut the rope 1 the second attempt hese offic cri succeeded in into i police motor car and ru hed him to a surgeon s office nearby ahe maor was bleeding aiom his mouth ind nose ind after a brief examina alon b i was taken to a bos william lbrown colo ati dogged froin the counti jail at 11 0 clock sundie and hangel to an electric pole following a struggle of nine hours to secure pos session of lils body bj an immense mob el L dark and ills deputies held the fort in the top story of the where Is located lie jail with a hundred prisoners until the building became a seething m iss of flames and lie ws forced to sub inet alie lunching lynching lyn ching followed an afternoon and evening fraught with mob demon seldom recorded llie body of thed eid negro was dragged about the foi leeral hours following alie followed bi a morbid crowd of hooting men and boas the assault with which lbrown was charged was committed on agnes lobeck earli in the week alth an escort crippled botond the point of resistance miss lobeck met lier assailant a few blocks from home in the southeast part of the he held the couple up at the point of a revolt after robbing alie boung m in he assaulted alie young vo nun in ills presence holding a vcr at the head of her escort in the meantime outside the otili of the negro the known numbered twenty four one of whom was killed and the remainder received wounds most of which were the result of revolver shots |