Washington County News | 1900-06-02 | Page 4 | Negro Lynched at Pueblo

j NECRO LYNCHED AT PUEBLO. Murdtrtd Two Little lilrli aud Seriously j Woundi Ull Wife. j Calvin Kitublern, for the murder of : two little white girls at the Fries Or-phau' Or-phau' ome at Pueblo last Sunday morning and the serious wounding of his wife, was lynched Wednesday morning-. The cold-blooded manner of the slaving slav-ing of the children had wrought the people up to a high pitch of excitement, excite-ment, and w hen it was added to by reports, re-ports, whether accurate it is not known, that physicians who have examined ex-amined the bodies of the dead children found indubitable evidence that they bud been ravished, set the populace wild and resulted in the lynching. Kimbleru was caught in Denver, and a mob of l,uO men stayed up until 1:30 j a. iu., to meet the passenger train, when they took the negro from the officers of-ficers and handed him to a telegraph pole near the center of the town.