Show L Bp V V Mob Mo b of 0 Diamond Slim SI Il Clifton Taken From Pro Ilia County Jail at al a Wyo Ho This Tiis and azid Hanged From a High r Budge ga West of Tow Was Charged Ille of J 1 W U Clinch and ad Wife Near Gillette a r fl to the New Cheyenne Wyo Wo May 37 W C Diamond Slim Clifton W S ell tram from tho county jail at nt Now New Cm tie at on nn j early corly hour this morning and lynched by bya b a II mob of It cowboys The walla vak or of the jut were battered down and the sheriff and tind his hI deputy hold ui willie while the mob operated Clifton was WIl taken to a high bridge Wept went We t of ot town and hanged The Tb fall of ot 40 feet out cut oft off his liU head houd Clifton mur nur murdered murI 1 dared dered J W V Church and nn 1 wife near noor Oil Gil Gillette I lette hISTORY OP Ol TUB TIU CASE 1 Denver May 27 John W Church I and his wife who tio lived on u a homestead claim 76 75 5 miles of ot Newcastle Nev netie were never seen Icon after Notch March 14 U UI I loot IlIst Clifton ClItton whose ranch adjoined Church wan wall wa April V 1 on SUI BUI and on April 17 he confessed thai that he ho had hod killed Mr Ir and Mm Mrs Church j Their bodies found at tim plan Indicated by b him Clifton claimed tha thu thuI I he had killed th the couple In lie llo had given ghon Church n a bill of ot sale cm Co oring personal property to re roo repayment payment of at OO advanced d to him by byChurch byChurch byChurch Church He lIe said Mid that he ho had repaid I lila flits turn MUm and aUlI obtained the hill bill of ot gale galeand and that Mrs Church had then Ihen threat threatened threatened ened him him with a lx demand demandIng Ing a return of ot the lie He shot her liar he lie admitted and being then at nt attacked tacked by her killed killiK him too tuo This story stor was vaa l as nl Mrs Chuich Chuch was WaR a lender decider little woman only 13 2 years of ot ate age Church was for tor formerly formerly merly a stenographer In the Union Pa Pacific offices in About it II year ago Church Chulch and ahll Clifton made an agree agreement ment meat to go Into tho the cattle business In Wyoming together and Church then took tonk up Ul a H homestead adjoining Cliftons Clifton wan WIM S 31 years of oge MOn MOD D The mob which Woe was composed of ot 60 50 mounted ranchmen was as perfectly or organized organized anti proceeded with methodical deliberation The sheriff sherif and his deputies deputies ties were bound and confined Clifton Cliftons t erie were stilled with a n gag gog lIe He was wan bound hand and foot toot and was roughly rou e drugged l to 10 the scene of The of ot the mobs inobe leader lendel Wore woo 9 given and none of ot the towns townspeople people leple was wag aroused by b tho the lynching |