LYNCH LAWIN KENTUCKY AND CALIFORNIA..

Bay of Plenty Times, 18 November 1895, Page 4

LYNC H LA WIN KENTUCKY AND CALIFORNIA..

$W<s das§« of lyttcWtig afe fepttftedj Ifrekft) in OaiildHnia) being tke scene of the ttiost seflsfttlotial proceedings, At gpfingftelA (Kentucky) the ad* tniniattAtiott of moh law Was oi the coinmon»plaee erder. A mob of Sidgroes attacked the gaol, battered down the main gate, and dragged from ft (cell a negro prisoner who was accused of having murdered a fellowblack. He was hurried to a conve- . nient point, and forthwith hanged. p At Yreka the mob of vigilante numbered fully 250 men, variously armed and mostly masked. Assembling noiwleeflly at an early hour in the xnonfing outside the gaol, they ob. tftfaed possession of an iron rail and fixed it between two trpes. They then out t|e fire-alarm bell wires, and thu6 made themselves masters of the eituaN^jgojns^fer as pre^e^tingthe mustering police. Meanwhile their move. men£s had aroused the under?sherif¥, and he, thinking that some of the pijtoners were attempting to escape, f}pjsis4 the gaol gate and walked autsfae to make an e^amjnatiqn. mob thereupon rushed in, and, proceeding to the various cells, smashed the locks, dragged out four alleged murderers, whose trials had been long delayed, and hanged them simultaneously from the affixed iron rail. One of the other three were, in the opinion o£ the mob, responsible for the deaths * of residents in the qfistriot, the mqtfye v |v each case being rqbbeyy; The m,ei; protested thei]; innqcence, but the jead^rs of the mob refused them permission iq mate further statements. After the execution the vigilants dispersed, leaving their victims suspended in full view of the gaol officials.