The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-11-10
LYNCsa Law IN IOWA.
Man Nearly rKillea.-AAnss q his
Supposed Llfeless Body. %DIl41

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From the Des MONIES Register. ssh. 90
A young man. who had been living in this
town in the employ of liveryman on Walnut
street and whose mother lives In Hddyville,
got on the eastern bound coach at Rising SON
on Monday evening last. When the coach
reached Pella, one of the passengers discovered
that his pocket had been picked, and that he
had lost all of his money, amounting to ESQ.
From some cause or other, suspicion was fast.
ened on the young man from Des Moines.
He was arrested and searched; but a. no
money was found on his person, except the
pitiful sum of four dollars and five cents. he
was dismissed and went on his way to Eddy
Vile. Shortly after his departure, several
persons in Pella expressed their conviction
that he was the thief. notwithstanding his
apparent innocence. He was sent for, and
brought back to Pella. He was perfectly sub
missive, and seemed to manifest no great in.
dignation at the violence with which he was
treated. It was determined to- lynch him.
Men, to the number of forty or fifty, sur
rounded him, seized him, encircled his neck
hanging for q much longer time than the pur.
poses even of ordinary lynchiDg required. BE
was at length taken down and fell limp and
hfelees TO- the floor. It was believed he was as
Stunning, and he was questioned and even
kicked, but he showed no signs of life. A BY
stander finally placed finger on his wrist,
and no pulse was percepible. Then there wa
ageneral scare. A doctor was summoned who
announced his opinion that the mans spine
was seriously injured. The next morning at 5
o'clock, when we last heard from him, he was
lying in the same inseneible condition In which
he was found when the rope was taken from
his neck. 80 - '..''i 't1i
We learn from the Pella BLADE that the name
of the young man who was 90 terribly lynched
in that place, few nights since, Is Thomas
Gale. The man who lost the money, for the
theft of which Gale was accused, was one Len
dreth. The Blade denounces in . very proper
manner the fendish violence with which Gale
was treated. The poor fellow. after be had
stood an examination and had been released
because there was not q shadow Of proof of his
guilt, was suspended by the neck four minutes
and when cut down, was found TO be insensible
and remained in that state for hours. A part
of the time during which he was lying with no
perceptible evidence Of life in pulse or respira.
BILE storm of Monday night of last week! Could
internal crueaty be carried further? =" ~
For State which processes to recognize the
obligations Of civil law, Iowa has been q little
too much given to the violent demonstration.
In 1857, when horse thieves were On the ram
page in several Of the counties, not less than
fifteen or twenty of them gave up the ghost
under the manipulations of mob law; and,
since that time, although the cases of mob
vengeance and defiance of law have been less
numerous or ut least less fatal to human life,
they have been altogether too frequent. So
clety will never be what 1t ought to be under
the better forms Of civilization, until q supreme
respect shall be shown to legal authority as
distinguished from mob excitements and mob
murders. Every man who was engaged in that
develish scene at Pells should be put upon his
lot fNp ussA l.