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Show MAYOR STRUNG UP BY I08HT OHM HEAD OF CITY GOVERNMENT TWICE HANGED, BUT EACH TIME SAVED BY OFFICERS. Court House Fired and Many Injured in Rioting Which Followed Attempt of Mob to Lynch Negro for Brutal Crime. iiuaha. -A blood-crazed mob attempted at-tempted to lynch Mayor Ed. I'. Smith. .Sunday afternoon, ami laier hung William Brown, a negro, to a pole. The mayor is in a critical condition at a hospital. A rope was thrown around his neck and he was pulled oil' the ground twice before two police officers succeeded suc-ceeded in cutting the rope and getting him into an automobile and away from the mob. The mayor had gone lo the courthouse court-house and held a consultation with Sheriff Clark. Emerging from Ihe courthouse, he met ihe mob and began be-gan to make an appeal or law and order. Somebody shouted "lynch him." and a member of Ihe mob Ihrew a rope around his neck. Half a dozen men dragged the ina-yjr ina-yjr half a block and threw the loose end of the rope over a trolley pole. Twice they drew the mayor's body from the ground. Each time two police po-lice officers cut Ihe rope. Following the second attempt these officers succeeded in getting t he mayor into a police motor cur and rushed him lo a surgeon's office nearby. The mayor was bleeding from his mouth and nose and after a brief examination examina-tion by physicians was taken lo a hospital. hos-pital. William Brown, colored. was dragged from the county jail tit it o'clock Sunday night and hanged to an electric light pole, following a struggle of nine hours to secure possession pos-session of his body by an immense mob. Sheriff Michael L. Clark and his deputies held the fort in the to)) story of the courthouse, where is located the jail, with it hundred prisoners, until the building became a seething mass of flames and he was forced to submit. sub-mit. The lynching followed an afternoon and evening fraught with mob demonstrations demon-strations seldom recorded. The body of the dead negro was dragged about the street for several hours following the lynching, followed by a morbid crowd of hooting men and boys. The assault with which William Brown was charged, was committed on Agnes Lobeck early in the week. With an escort, crippled beyond the point of resistance, Miss Lobeck met her assailant a few blocks from home in the southeast part of the city. He held the couple up at the point of a revolver. After robbing the young man he assaulted the young woman wo-man in his presence, holding a revolver revol-ver at the head of her escort in the meantime. Outside the death of the negro, the known casualties numbered twenty-lour, twenty-lour, one of whom was killed and the remainder received wounds, most of which were the result of revolver shots. |