Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-17 | Page 6 | Large Mob Storms Jail, Burns Negro

LARGE MOB STORMS JAIL, BURNS NEGRO j fctUENS, ia.. Feb. 17. A mob of j n.OuO persons last liighl stormed rh. , I ' '.larke county Jail and after forcibly 3 taking John D. BBerhardt, negro, I j tfharaied with the murder ff Mrs. Wal-j f r i .i-f of icnep connt . from tin jail ( I burned him at the stake : The mob secured the negro from the I county jail after leaders had climbed an elevatbi shaft to I u top floor of ' the county courthouse and burned j their way into his cell with a blow torch. lie was taken to a fiel.i about 3 fie t.illen from the Cltj dire' tl '1 A posits the iee horn- and burned a I the stake, shortly before niidniglit. aft-' 3 er leaders had publlcK debated ivheth- jj er he should lie hung or burned Hi- I died in '.'U minutes. Mr. Lee was killed early Wedms- j da morning after shi had been at-' I I tacked on entering : bam on thc Let farm She resisted her :is.allint ;i 1 1 1 ; C ran back towards he: home, but wa.iil shot from behiiut. Bberhardl was ai I rested about noon at a neighboring -i farm. .Sheriff Jackson tried to pro-j , t thi jail, but a mob gs ' hei sd In I 'the rlclnsty tmmediatel) and before ? nightfall thousands of persons from j surrounding counties '".! assembled i