| Show THAT T IA T LYNCHING L AT LOOKOUT GAL CAL i I Before it Occurred Officers Were Besought to Take Taka Action GRAND JURY ADJOURNED I Jim Jt llody of or Prominent zen ArrI edl Too foo limy tu Annul to Mutter Alturas June 1 Details have haVo been received hare horo of the causes lead leadIng Ing to 10 the lynching at III Lookout yester yesterday day dB morning of ot live men Hall hl his sons Frank l Jim and Martin and his Daniel s sIt It Is 18 claimed that for some time past those thos men lien had hau been systematically pil pilfering fering stealing and robbing throughout t the entire lower end of ot Dig Valley alley and hundreds of ot articles In their i 1108 03 session had hau h heen en Identified as property by b the thc p persons from whom had been taken Inken hast Tuesday May hn II three prominent nent citizens of Lookout to 10 AI luras to get the grand jury jur to tako some Iome action against thee men but the grand jury jur had hlll Just JUtt three hours houra before the delegates from Look Lookout out arrived here and hence could do nothing The three Lookout then went to District Attorney U K J C Donner r and asked him to 90 fO down and attend to the matter He lie replied that he was too busy tu 10 go lt They th Ihen n went to Judge 5 1 F p Harris of ot this and employed him to take lake of the Ille He Ho agreed to do to If he get the to him for that purpose He wag not to 10 get liel the but Instead tile the district dl attorney C C of ot A Jin to Investigate the thu matter On Calvin Hull and hU hi three sons lIOns and were for larceny lureen under a warrant In I sued from the justices court of lookout and their hearing or preliminary ex examination wits Will set for Cor Friday No 0 ball I was granted CI and the live prisoners were placed In the custody of ot A Carpenter M 1 Drown Broun Sidney Drown Brown who were designated for tor that purpose I IJ J H It Myers the justice of ot the peace also keeps ket l u 1 hotel ut lit Lookout and the fie prisoners with their three guards were In the of the hotel hole when the mob came to Its III prey pre The fhe i doomed men had not the slightest HUB of the awful tRill fate bout to over overtake take them th m and their three ln were Ignorant of the terrible which they the would soar bv tw compelled to Lo bout About 1 In morn morning I ing the dour of the toom WM wa thrown Open and the thc mx In In mil seized the In III pile of the remon of the three guards One nf of the guards his hili pistol ami trl trIed l to prevent the men from tar tarrying out their awful purpose hut but aU ll llin in aln lIln The fhe mob ovi ll the I and compelled them to 10 go co along alon assist Il 91 t With hands the I fio were taken laken along Main to the laig bridge which tho ho Pitt river Upon Ulon arriving there Ii i noose was quickly placed the Ihl neck u k of each e ch of the men nen nud the rO e made mide ft t In to the th tim timers bera ers of ot the bridge Then Cheu without n r mo hesitancy h th furious men pu their five fIe victims oft or the bridge ind launched them Into eternity et |
