PRISONERS LYNCHED

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 13 December 1920, Page 5

PRISONERS LYNCHED

VENGEANCE FOR DEATH OF POLIC£,MAN.

KXCITL\G SCENES NEAR SAN FRAJS CISCO.

EY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION-COI'YBIGHT (Received Dec. 13, 9.20 a m ) NJfiW YORK, Dec. 10. •A sensational trial and lyncWr have occurred at. Santa. Rosa, a suburb of Sun Aranoiaoo. During recent weeks oan bnmcisco has been roused over wh Cn°c!, ratlOn !of a, gan S of ex-pugilist* «bo.kidnapped girls and took th£n to a lonely house, where they terriiblv .maltreated them. The policTbrole up assaulted They subsequently traced fi?tPn^i° SaHta R°Sa ' and a Pitched battle with revolvers followed, in which thlTi Ti F rancjjos°o detectives were shot dead before the men wer D captured and lodged in the Santa Rosa gaol on Sunday last. Yesterday morning a i posse of nfty masked men visited the' | gaol and removed three of the prison- | era, Boyd, Fitts , and Tarento, and hanged them on a single branch tree. * ire ot their companions were lynched ' Ihe men arrested with them were jcmoved from the custody of the San *rancisco police and placed in charge ot State officials. The Chief of Police is investigating statements that policemen friends of the murdered officers Darticimted in the lynching. There are indications ti.at it was arranged that no resistance Has made by the gaol officials at Santa Rosa when the lynchers arrived. The n'oior* conveying them rpceived an ovat'-on on returning from their mission of u . n I geance. j The belief is that the dead policemen s friends took this method of derl--IUAu % Everest warning to members oi the San Francisco underworld.