HORRIBLE CASE OF LYNCH LAW.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 916, 8 October 1879, Page 2

HORRIBLE CASE OF LYNCH LAW.

One <5f the most horrible instances of "lynch law" has just occurred at Eorfc Scot, Kanas. A negro committed an outrage on a little girl, and fleeing, was pursued for several hours, and finally found in an old mine near the town. -His name was Howard, and the telegram thus tells what happened : "After some little parley, Howard came forth, and delivered himself up, after being promised by his captors that he should receive no bodily harm from them. About two o'clock the band arrived in town, and the prisoner was promptly lodged in gaol. The excitement rose to fever heat, and threats of lynching were made with emphasis, the facts of the crime being so horrible as to be without parallel in criminal history. About seven o'clock in the evening, a crowd of people, numbering fully 1,000, accompanied by thirty masked men, in solid line, with drawn revolvers 'in their hands, marched off to the gaol, and, overpowering all resistance, tore iron the grating from the window of Howard's cell, and forcibly took him out, a rope was tied around his neck, and amid yells and shouts he was dragged by a hundred hands a distance of five blocks and hanged to a lamp-post on the corner of the public square. The infuriated mob, whose anger and excitement had passed all bounds, after the body had hung some fifteen minutes, on a shout of "Burn him! barn him !" being started, took it down and dragged it to the square, and, in spite of the resistance and objection of the more calm and peaceable portion of the crowd, literally roasted and burned the remains in a fire of dry goods boxes and coal oil, amid demonstrations that rivalled a pandemonium.