| Show u JUST ESCAPED BEING LYNCHED Vigilance of Officers All That Th t Saved Slick Slater ASSAULTED A YOUNG WOMAN WO AN liy b Uio Ilin tim Alter Vu n iU from twit Uio thu lull Jail Topeka Jean iCon Feb 20 The vigilance of tho the was all nil that saved Suck Slick Slater from lynching by nn ran In Infuriated mob In b tonight He lie will suii yet ot bo be lynched It If ho ito ran can be found Slater Slator assaulted Gerberick Monday evening and andwan wan captured by h the Topeka the next day In Carbondale Tim The officers kept the tho fact tact of or the capture quIet and placed ace Baiter In tho the county count Jail here This rule afternoon It became known knowlI that he was here and und immediately the time Santa SantaFe Fe Ie of whom tim the assaulted II girls father Cather George III Is one otte decided that he lie should sho hl be lynched d They at nt once sent a committee to Watch the tue jail jull while they quietly ar arranged ranged the details of the time expected lynching lynch lug lugIi Uy Ii B 6 G oclo k there was nn an angry mob moh of ot around time the county jail demand ing that time the prisoner be delivered to them A brigade of sturdy Santa Fo Vu o armed arm ed with WI Lii heavy stood ready to make muke short work of the time Jail In case ase the t e de do doI I Inn I iIo 10 s r n n v I U Sheriff Cook told the crowd that tho the prisoner hat had been removed and of ot to let a committee search learch the Small jail Ten men headed by Goorge GIorge made malle a ro thorough search but Jut Slater could not be found They fhe returned and told the mob but that failed tailed to satisfy them and twice they started to break bleak In ha time tho jail doors It developed that early In tho the after afternoon noon the sheriff In anticipation of 01 trouble ordered a deputy to get Slater I out cut of town He lie was ordered not to i leave leae him In Jackson county or take him to Leavenworth The Tue deputy drove to Hoyt with Slater 51 ter and entered n at northbound Hock flock Island train with him It Is thought here tonight ht that Slater Sinter ID It now In jail at lit Atchison The Th Santa Fe Pc are calmly determined determine to lynch Slater Sinter when hen he ho Is brought back buk for tor trial They fhe have he ap up appointed pointed n It e vigilance committee to tobe tobe be he constancy on rn the time lookout and vow OW that thal will never leave Topeka alice The Tho Santa Fa ra have hae a Il past pastIn record In cases of ot this kind kim They lynched John Julia Oliphant twelve years aeo nizo II O for tOI a like offense Slater Is 19 white and 28 age The he county courtly Jail which the lynching party visited Is I In search ot or Slater Is the tho same siame one OM In which Mrs Irs Nation Is 18 confined Mrs rs Nation was much alarmed at the course cOUlse of ot the evenings events cent but fear tear for tor herself hersel did ditl not once enter ente her mind as far as ns outward ap tap appearances wont went The ThO army arm met at atthe the tho First Christian church tonight and tand andon an anon tandon on hearing of ur the tile projected attack on tho time jail Immediately sent a I message to Sheriff Cook saying sa that of or time the members of ot tho the or organization would Immediately b Jt on tho the spot to help protect the tho Jail front from tho ho fury tUf of oC the mob This Thill of ot loyalty on the time part hart of oC her Imer followers highly high I pleased Mrs Nation and rho Fhe expressed her loyalty of them In un unmeasured Unmeasured measured terms Mrs Irs Nation said that the time action of ot the lie enforcement law people eo pie proved that they were Just JURt what they claimed io to iobe be anxious for tor the enforcement of or law la and anti who would not endure the tho th sight of a n lynching being perpetrated here In Mr Mrs rs Nation Nallon atlon was sas pleased that the tho managed manage to get Ret Slater from the fury of the mob nob M eo o that ho lie can receive reele his punish punishment punishment ment In the manner prescribed by law ions In |
