Show ROPE NECKTIE NECK TIE PARTY ottumwa iowa the scene of a first class lynching lunching Lyn ching A I 1 pays the penalty of his ills crime the mother furnished the rope top for the Hinel nn ottumwa iowa nov ai 21 fred gustaveson eson a laborer aged 32 who recently came to this city was hanged by a mob on tho tile main street of ottumwa at o 30 this afternoon last night he enticed a 4 year old daughter of jonas sax into a room in a boarding house and criminally assaulted her the child now lies at the point of death this afternoon gustaveson was brought to justice traute 0 1 effice for preliminary examination A fight cn on hued there thera between tho tile father grandfather and other relatives of the tile child and the officers the culprit was finally wrested from the hands of the officers and dragged to the street here the mother of tho the child stood with a ro rope e and gave give it into the tile hands of the dinou m 0 it was immediately placed around the neck and he lie was hanged to the bannis of the outside stairway A great crowd had by this time collected no effort was made to cut the tile villain down after ilan hanging ing twelve minutes the tile rope broke and the body fell to the pavement it was siezer b by the officers and hurried to the jail the mob fearing life was not yet extinct fol followed lowed and demanded the body mayor laforce assured them the fellow was tas dead and ordered them to disperse diapers c they refused finally a committee from the tile crowd was selected teJ to view the remains they reported life extinct and the mob dispersed for a time it looked as if the mob would not have been satisfied until it had bad taken another life the trial of ed walton for the murder of a young youn girl zirl bs by malpractice began this morning morning in judge babbs babble court when the mob made a break for the jail some come one yelled lets get walton but fortunately ho lie had been spirited away by the tile officers and no further trouble ensued |