Ogden Daily Standard | 1906-08-01 | Page 8 | T. H. Carr, Druggist

ys thac TT y f n at H 3 r A t TEN THOUSAND WITNESS HANGING mayfield ky july 31 the hanging of alan AIn the negro who criminally assaulted miss ethel me clain last night took placa at 6 tonight in a legal manner in the yard of the county jail fully ten thousand people were on the scene but only a tev hundred see the execution although almost the entire fence surrounding the scaffold had been torn down by the enraged catl zena while the trial was going on it was only fifteen minutes from the time the jury was sworn in until the negro was pronounced dead mathis arrived here at tonight from louisville in charge 0 a deputy sheriff and corn pany of rol litia from the local military met the train and negro marched to the court house i several were made to get twice he was in the pos of abe mob but the soldiers succeeded in forcing their way with their prisoner to the court house Mathi 5 trial wag at once begun jail from county charged with a similar offense iwas to be lynched but it Is understood was spirited away