Show MOB EXECUTES WOODARD DIED ON SCAFFOLD WHICH HAD BEEN ERECTED FOR HIS LEGAL EXECUTION the murderer of sheriff bicker Is taken from jail at caecer wyoming by a mob and hang lie being strangled to death charles F woodard convicted 0 the murder of sl edff R acker was taken from bail at casper wyo at 12 40 day morning by twenty four masked who overpowered sheriff tubbs and secured the prisoner and hanged h m on the gallows wh ch had been built for his legal on wood ard was to have been executed anday but on the previous tuesday the su preme court granted a stay of execl tion which would have given the con damned man at east three more months of life the stay of execution to have been received with bad grace by a number of casper s citizens and the I 1 lynching resulted woodard was awakened from a sound bleep by the mob s entrance to the jail he was not given time to dress him self but was taken out in two inches pf snow with nothing on his but a short shirt he made no outcry or resistance wl en he saw the masked men who bad handkerchiefs tied over their faces but went qu egiy with them he was taken to the gallows when be said boys let kneel down and pray for you I 1 want to pray for all of you these are tl e last words to my blessed little wife tell my dear little wife that I 1 loved her dearly won t you tell her that boys I 1 pray that you have the papers print it god forgive me for my s ns I 1 pray for my self and I 1 pray for you and I 1 pray for charley piker I 1 never had any grudge against h m in god s world after beclar ag that he never meant to kill sheriff E acker and pleading that he be not choked the naked and trembling man with the rope t ghaly drawn abent his neck wal shoved off the but he gave a spring off from it before the lever could be pulled the body commenced to go through terrible contort ons and a couple ot masked men caught 1 old of 1 s feet and gave them several hard biks the man was simply choked to death A card was p nned to Wood aids shirt wh ch reads process of the law is a little slows so is the road you II 11 have to go murders and tl eves be ware people s V erdice the crime for which charles franc 1 woodard paid with h s 1 fe was corn on the even D of january 2nd last at woodard s ranch near afield peak in the rattlesnake Eattle snake mou bains seventy five miles west of caspel ahei he cruelly ahot to death and mut i the body of william eickel of natrona county woodard with 1 s wife bertha ani brother clarence was arrested last november on tl e chairge of stealing cloth pg and provisions from a ranch it was alleged tl at woodard s ranc was the headquarters of a band of cat tie and horse tl leves at the prel mi nary bertha woo lard was re leased from custody 11 e brothers were held to the dietr ct court bu t were unable to fum sh bonds on th 1 night of dece aber 0 1901 they I 1 off the bars of their cells and a win dow and got away at the stockyards east of to charles woodard secured a p s which had been placed by a friend near casper he stole a horse and rode to his ranch read ng the place on the even ag of january instead of finding friends ready to as bist him he found abher ff kicker and t vo deputies at the 1 ouse who were there looking for h he went to the barn intending ta abandon h s 1 orse and steal one of tha officers an mals it w as about 7 clock in tl e evening a id was quite lark he mounted one of the sheriffs horses and was ready to ride away when tl e sheriff came out of the ouse and ap ag tl e barn ordered him to surrender woodard instantly shot tl e sl enal through the body and the officer fell to the ground mortally voundee wood ard theu it is sa d went to tl e dying man and struck him in the face w th his six shooter he empt ed effs iffs pockets securing 45 and also took off from the body a belt full 0 cartridges and a scabbard woodard then dragged the body several feet to ward the barn and left it he went into the barn turned two of the horses out saddled the remaining one and rode off he was captured several weeks at berward near clings mont and brought back to casper he admitted the kill ng and was colv acted and sen tence 1 to hang friday last acting governor chatterton has sent to bueler prosecuting attorney of county the following tele gram in tl e brutal lynching 0 woodard the fair name of wyoming 1 as been dragged in tt e mire tl e order of our supreme court d the law pross violated the reports ind cate that no conary steps were taken by the officers of the law to pi event its violation in the name of the law wl ich has been violated and as the act ng executive of the state I 1 call upon you the county prosecutor to institute and make a thorough in vest gat on of this crime w th a v ew to the punishment of the guilty par ties |