The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-11-10
LYNOH Law m iswA.


From the Dies MONIES Register, sssh.' 20
= A young man, who had been living in this
town IN the employ of Q liveryman on Walnut
street. and whose mother lives In EddyviIle.
got on the eastern bound coach at Rising Sun
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
treated. 1t was determined to- lynch him.
Men, to the number of forty or fifty, sur
rounded him, seized him, encircled hs neck
with q rope, suspended him, and kept him
hanging for much longer time than the pur-
poses even Of ordinary lynching required. He
was at length taken down and fell limp and
Melees TO the floor. II was believed he was as
suminE and he was Questioned and even
kicked, but he showed no signs of life. A by
and no pulse was perceptble. Then there was
ageneral scare. A doctor was summoned who
announced his opinion that the mans spine
was seriously injured. The next morning at
O'Clock, when we last heard from him, be was
lying in the same insensible condition In which
he was found when the rope was taken from
We learn from the Pella Blade that the name
OF the young man who was 90 terribly lynched
n hat MD fotxy fohta
Gale. The man who lost the money, for the
theft Of which. Gale was accused, was one Lem
dreth. The Blade denounces Il, q 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 . shadow Of proof of his
gnilt, was suspended by the neck four minutes
and when cut down, was found % 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.
ton, he lay out of doors, exposed to the terri
BILE storm of Monday night Of last week. Could
Internal cruesty be carried further = li'11 -
For State which processes to recognize the
obligations Of civiilaw, Iowa has been little
too much given to the violent demonstrations
In 1857, when horse thieves were On the RAM
pagein several Of the counties, not less than
fifteen or twenty of them gave up the ghost
under the maaipulations Of mob law; and,
since that time although the cases of mob
vengeance and defiance of law have been less
numerous, or at least less fatal to human life
they have been altogether too frequent. So
ciety will never be what 1t ought 70 be under
the better forms Of civilization, until 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 Pella should be out upou his
Trial under an indictment for assault with In