Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-08-07 | Page 1 | Old Man is Tortured

OLD OlO MAN AN g TORTURED Seven Men Are Being I Tried for Their Aw AwI I ful Cri Crime me I Sparta Spora WIG Wis Aug or of cruelty to lo an old man suspected as a thief were brought out in a trIal hero Accused of robbing Andrew Andre I Johnson a farmer or of his purse con containing taming 75 Frank Allen was Ni ed almost to death at Cataract Wis Wison 01 on July 21 l lio Ha was hanged hangell to the tho rafters of a barn by a crowd of John Johnsons JohnSons sons frIends EIght men were arrested two of whom are arc ph physicIans and seven senen are aro areno no being tried for the crime They are Andrew Johnson Edward May Mayfield field Frank Young Dr Di Hedron An Andrew Andrew drew Ernest Mengel and Frank Masterson DI Wilbur Davis was discharged yesterday and went ent on the tho stand for fez I Ithe Ithe the state He told the tho stor story or of the torture According to him the men caught Allen near barn and after aHel beating bealing hIm until his face took hini hin into the barn barim and ani hanged him by br the neck to toone toone one of the rafters Dr Hedron hold held his hi pulse and when his physical condition required atten attention attention tion ordered that lie ho he be let down for a t brIef rest He was hanged In this manner three times limes the last tIme be being belog log ing taken down unconscious After being with difficulty brought back to lIfe lie he was tal taken en to lo the tho river to be ducked Near the riel the missing pocketbook was found The Tho mob then Allen over oer to a justice of the peace who ordered him out of town