Show mob breaks into jail and takes prisoner waco texas aug S at 2 this morning mounted citizens numbering about six hundred surrounded the court house and fall and after making prisoners of sheriff tilley the jailer and all the deputy sheriffs broke open the jail took sank majors out and 1 after hearing his confession hung ahlm from new bridge ho is still hanging there and the mob is still in this city majors had recently been convicted for criminal assault and given the death penalty but had been gran teda new trial by judge in order that there might be no opportunity for the court of cru ninal appeals to reverse the sentence on a technicality |