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Show WYOMING LYNCHING TWO CONDEMNED MURDtlRERS AND OFFICER KILLED. Mob Attacks Basin Jail and Murder a a Deputy Sheriff In Endeavor to Secura Prisoners, Who Wert Shot to Death. News has been received of a bloody lynching which cnrreil at Hnnln. Wyo., on 8untlnv. and of nn appeal for help fnim Sheriff Kenton, of lllg Horn county, who haa arrested a number num-ber of prominent cattlemen near ThermotHills. anil han appealed to the governor of Wyoming for anslstn-ico of the nil'ltia In getting Jiis prisoners to tho llnsln jail. The lynching resulted In the killing of two condemned murderers, and also In tho shooting of a deputy sheriff. sher-iff. 0. K. Pierce, who died Instantly The niurderem wore Jim t'.orninn. w-ho killed bin brother about a year ago and ran off with his hrothor'a wife, and a prisoner named Walters, a traveling trav-eling man, who killed a widow named Hoover at Thernioiadla Hot Springs two yeara ago because she refused to marry him. A mob of about thirty men, unmasked, un-masked, and In perfect order, rode up the cant bank of tho lllg Horn, dismounted, dis-mounted, tethered their homea and compelled the ferryman to carry tbein across the river. They made no demonstration until they entered Masln. when five shota wore fired aa a warning. Thn mob proceeded at once to the building which la a court house and In II combined and fired a volley Inio the Jn II. Deputy Pierce and Rpeclnl Deputy (Jon. H. Mead were guarding the prlsouern nl the time. One bullet grarcil Mead's shoulder and entered Plorce'a heart, killing him Instantly. Members of the niob then quickly procured telephone poles and haltered the Jail diHira down. They drst came to Walters, who wan crouched on hln cot. plteously bot-itlng for mercy. No needless torture wns resorted to. Walters Wal-ters was shot Instnntly. A still more nlurmlng ntnte of affairs af-fairs In reporteil from the vicinity of Thermopolls. About six weeks ago. as Hie result of a feud that has been so bitterly wage-1 a sheepman, lien Mlmilck. was killed by cattlemen. Sheriff Kenton. It Is claimed, tins enntured the murderers, who are all promlrent ratr onion, nnd whose names have been withheld on account of threats made against them. Sheriff Sher-iff Kenton Is unable to got hla prisoners prison-ers to Ilnsln. It la clnlmed the same mob that lynched (iormnn and Wnltora. are svnuiaihlr.era. and have declared that Sheriff Kenton will never get out ot till" locality alive with hln, prlaonera. Hherlff Kenton haa wired the governor gov-ernor of Wyoming (or permission to use tho militia at Lander, and haa also nent a tolephnno message to Cody, Hasln, Moeteotse and other Wyoming towns (or volunteers to assist him In upholding tho mw. Kvory where hnrdy westerner are responding to the call, arming them-aelvea, them-aelvea, and hastening toward Ther-mnpolls. Ther-mnpolls. It la probable that the militia mi-litia will he ordered to the aceno and a bloody battle may be (ought |
