| Show 1 r CRIME BIME E IN NEBRASKA N tASKA ha has bre breakfasted and d dir edas as well as supped on on ii for some days past Nine murder murders in one week mane make mea a h heavy av crime crime- score crime score for that State Some of them were distinguished for tor cruelty ald dt jt characteristic only nl of r the lowest lowe t order of savages On the night of November two negroes named r respectively pe Ja Jao k ott ott and aLd a Ld Martin outraged oU g an anold old 8 ei yea s e rs IS of ot a ae age e and b at out the brains of her ber hue hue- band an aged cripple wb while te he he was in his bed Th Th s 1 urd i ti w were re tried convicted convicted and nd strange to say the jury brought in a ver vs- verdict dict diet of murder in the second de- de degree degree de degree gree This infuriated almost to madness the the- people of ef Nebraska city where the trial tria was waa held The Judge who presided said he had sat In ment o tWenty tWenty-sta murder eases cases and aDd this was the most moet heli of all alt and th the evidence Vid o wilful murder murder- was Wd plats plain and in- in indisputable In Indisputable disputable The murderers were WeN e to imprisonment ment for life Tuesday mom mouL morning p-g p the ins a mob l led d by influential i citi went to the jail jaB battered In ina a the doors doore ov O r ered officers and took the two southward to Table just juste opt out of town where the they hung them thern to w aft au old elm tree Martin Martis n up first while Jackson stood laughing in a fiendish man man- manner manner manner ner ner he was wae then hoisted three ti times mee and nd died in terrible lUde agony The desperate and lawless work was done quietly and while the com com- commUnity community com community deprecate dept cate lynching they d r rejoice at t the fate te of 01 WI Ur two to vil n- n lain i t On the following day the the bodies of M Mip Mw Hanson and her three obi then dren lit lit- little tie tle distance south of K Kearney arney Her head bead had d been beaten in with a SMoothing snoot g iron irOD Irons and anti lOp children had b been ep feed rl d mired Kicked ked to death A t Ii A l f m this scene b U or s rte n was found dpi dead fu n jb Arta hl J head pounded w tb a T lab eevi- eevi eevi denae en panted d to td t oN 4 fi hh t R harde as the tite t e and 4 a reward re ot of waa was was by i for tie off CW t tBt f Bt the most a at I jt bar bar- barbarous bar barbarous perform barous pf all wa wain in t i ted ed p pr per per- per per- r form y t SQ eq on t e I ay n t ap that cat cattle le leher her herders rs bad in the habit 01 of d j upon the he farms tE s settlers settlers in Ouster custer lV Nei T i a g great ate Jy ly to th the injury ry and chagrin of latter Mr Mitchell an old and respected citizen prot protested sted nai st this course by a man named Stevens Ste- Ste Stevens vens alias Oliver who went to Mitchells Mitchell's house with some com com- companions companions having threatened to kill him and attempted to arrest him and a hired man named Keto m on sore some some pretended charge Tji T v y were resisted and when t tl they their pistols and commenced shoot shoot- shooting shooting shooting ing at Mitchell and the family Ketchum who was wounded in inthe the arm seized a gun and mortally wounded Stevens Mitchell and aad Ketchum then fled for their lives But a reward of being offered by the dying for their apprehension they were captured by the sheriffs of Merrick Buffalo Batalo and Dawson counties and brought I to Kearney where Ketchum admitted killing Stevens Th They were then taken in by y the sheriff of Custer County and on reaching Plum Creek flue five mounted men masked and armed took the prison prison- prisoners prisoners prisoners ers from the Sheriff and his com com- companions companions com companions hurried them to an adjacent tr tree e and securely tied them The fiends inhuman In inhuman human shape then built a afire afire fire around the tree and proceeded to slowly roast rout the men to death And while the were writhing in agony their mur mur- murderers mur- mur murderers murderers actually took pointed brands and amused themselves by running them Into the quivering flesh of their victims vict All AU was wae as witnessed wit wit- De 8 d k t tI f ti riff pd I his bis party looking looking O on from froma a distance tJ c h i This was not the work of Indians Indiana but of white men who th though ugh personally not Dot identified were re- re recognized re recognized cognized ed to ke Texan boys boye or stock herders in the employ Y of Stevens and other sto stock li men They are at present free tree from froDl ar- ar arrest arrest ar arrest rest But the whole State is Arous Aroused ed with anger a against the pel e- e of this demoniac Bab there is 18 little pro p t at pre pre- present present sent of any satisfaction of f justice JIh The Governor i bas lias has no means athie at at- his hie for tor the payment of exp ex- ex ex p uses necessarily accruing in the pursuit p and capture of People however Indignant and lout load tri their th ir outcries s against th the Texan Texan savages gel will win not leave their theW and occupations o t to hunt for forthe forthe the murderers without ur recompense If either of the tragedies whiCh stain the honor of the State of N Nebraska had beet b been elt p perpetrated Utah the Whom country v th the idin 1 t to tile J led ih desperadoes CT J sech ct horrible Crimes rimes would B ha Ve hen been b be e t laM iMd to he the I indifference i Terence ference of df f the Mormons fir or their elter of the tIle criminals f |
