LYNCH LAW.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 310, 29 December 1900, Page 5 (Supplement)

LYNCH LAW.

CAUGHT WRONG MAN.

After..inor«..than;,a. year Wy*-?"*, a: d*monstratlom New Hampshire Wfciteeaps have again started ~Bn tjKa warpath, says an American exchange; A raid occurred the other evening in:tbe village of Derry, about 1J miles from Nashua. The affair ■waa i> success from * spejitaoular view point, although the quarry most sought Was riot brought to "bay. A« u»ual in New Hampshire the victims to be whitecapped were alleged violaiers of the 7th commandant. Ethel Sannorn was married three years ago to Perley Dearborn. One

child was born to them, but did not prove a hostage to connubial "oliss, for about a year ago the couple 1 The woman left husbaftjl^rand. - baiby, "and ha# occupied a cottage in'the outskirts of the Village.; Rumour had associated her name ■with that of a storekeeper of the place, a married man. Such stories came to the ears of friends of Dearborn and of the merchant. Certain persons resolved to take justice .into their own hands at the

first available opportunity. A watcher]

ijferought news that a man was visiting! 'f$iTS Dearborn's cottage. ■ A party of 40 i /young men, supposed to be mostly shopmates of Dearborn in the> shoe factory ■where he works, disguised themselves and started in a posse for the cottage. The evening was unusually' sultry, and the' Shadows of Mrs Dearborn's domicile were open. Acting with stealth, the uninvited visitors secured a garden hose, and attaching it to a pipe from* the village waterworks, suddenly had a; stream playIng into Mrs Dearborn'svoom. The effect •was magical, and in less than one minute ;the form of a thinly-clao" mail, dripping with water, ran from the house. When it •was discovered that he was not the man suspected he was allowed to go without much rough handling,, ana the woman was not further bothered.