Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-30
Under Sheriff, Pepin County, "
The ssStmdle De'ssssncsd.

fDurand (Wis Courier, Nov. u.s.
Saturday afternoon the prisoner was brought
before Justice w. B. Dyer, in the court room
The house was crowded with men, women and
children, from nearly all parts OF this and ad.
joining counties, anxious to get view OF the
no orious criminal. He gave his name u
william E. Maxwell, and to the charge as read
by the Justice, catered plea Of mot guilty
He also waived an examination and Vae com.
mitted for trial. Without delay the officers
started to conduct the prisoner back to Jail.
TER TRAGEDY.
+ Just % the prisoner, in charge Of Sheriff
Peterson, Deputy Knight, Deputy d. Cole
man, Of Dunn county, Sheriff Killian, of
Grand Island, Neb., Marshal Seeley and Thos
Garvln. reached the bottom of the stairs, some
one cried, chang the s-n OF b---h," and q
dozen or more determined men tackled the
officers A man with moose lodged in the
door and soon had 1t over the murlerer'e head
with regular "haugman's knot" under the
left ear. The officers made desperate resist
ance, but were Overpowered by superior num-
bers and hurried down the hall away from
their prisoner. Maxwell fought like tiger,
but he fought without his favorite weapons,
against men as determined as himself, and
IN less time than it takes as 70 write
these lines, the rope was securely
er Of "hanl awsyl" and the rope frightened
with jerk that landed Maxwell on the porch
outside the building, another jerk and he
reached the ground, from where hs was
dragged to an old oak tree east Of the court
house and quickly suspended thirty feet in the
air, with his handouts still or and heavy
pair Of shackles hanging from his left foot.
As soon a. they could possibly get to him
(xbout fifteen minutes) the officers cut down
A. H. bfoh Of
forwards inferred in the P0tter's field OF Oul
cem.tsry.
While our citizens generally do not coun'
tenancs the lynching, we hear no regrets
Mob law should always be frouned down BY
all respectable citizens, but this was moi
q mob. Less than twenty-five meu
seemed to have hand in the matter
and the fact that all our citizens al.
lowed their wives and children to 60 to {
coust house sho W that they were suspecting
nothing Of the kind. The affair was conduct.
ed quietly-no loud talk nor yelling, except
the cry, Chang the s-n Of ab---hp' which
was evidently q signal agreed upon By the
vigilance committee, and the signal OF "haul
away" Only one drunken man WAS to he
ssen in town, and he had been havir & . little
spree Of his own for several daye. A regular
legal execution could not have boen conducted
more quietly and orderly, and 40 soon IS the
murderer was suspended from the tree the
crowd commenced to disperse. Less than
ATTY Of the large sssemblsge in tho court room
had time to get out of the building before the
tragedy was over. Five minutes after the
body was cut down less than dozen persons
were to be seen about court house square and
our streets had assumed their regular every
day appearance. All zee ned to feel that
Q painful duty had been performed, and ex.
pressed fervent wishes that the Ike necessity
should never occur again.