Show PLEADED FOR A NEGROS LIFE father of a girl asks that a mob act not too hastily dyersburg Dyers burg tenn feb 18 an unknown man broke into the residence of dr arnold a prominent physician here yesterday and etrick miss eliza arnold on the head and the bide with a hatchet she fainted without her assailant who became frightened and fled bloodhounds followed the trail from the young ladys room to the house of a negro named frank king where a hatchet was found in a bureau drawer king with two other negroes were arrested but the latter were released A mob was formed and would have lynched king but tor the pleadings of dr arnold who instated upon having better evidence of guilt at a late hour last night it was thought that a lunching lynching lyn ching would take place today but so far king Is safely in jail arnold will recover later A mob formed today and took king from jail and tried him before a jury selected from the mob he confessed implicating several other negroes and was then hanged another negro named abbee has been captured charged with complicity in the ns and probably will meet tho same fa |