The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-05-06
CRIMINAL VARIETIES.
Culled Here and There from the Columns OF
the Daily Press.
Justice Administered by Judge Lynch

Justice Administered by Judge Lynch,
Judge Lynch, during the past week, was
unusually active, administering justice, IN MS
peculiar way, almost simultaneously at var'-
GUS points many hundred miles apart.
In COLORADO. The first case of note was
at Lake City, Colorado, on the 97th ult' Two
men, named Browning and Belts, kept low
drinking and gambling den in the place. and
besides had been guilty of various bold acts
of burglary. About Wednesday of last week
il was found that burglary had been CON-
mltted in an unoccupled building in the town
where goods had been stored, and as there
were still valuable goods in the building,
Sheriff Campbell and his assistant, named
Smith, took position IN the house on Wednes-
day night to watch tor the burglars. About
9 o'clock in the morning a couple OF men,
with false keyes, entered the house, and strik-
ing a match, Campbell seeing they were
Belts and Browning, called to them to throw
up their hands. Instead Of doing so Belts
fired, putting bullet through the sheriit's
heart Smith returned the fire, but seeing his
chief fall remained to assist HIM while the
burglars got away Early next morning,
however, both were caught, and coroner's
Jury having been called and placed the guilt
of the two men beyond doubt, they were
placed in the city Jail with guard around
them. That night, however, 70 masked men
took them by force out of the jail, marched
them to the Ocean Wave bridge across the
Gunnison river, and hanged them The bodies
were guarded until next morning, when the
officers of the law cut them down and had
them buried.
AT MINNEAPOLIS. On Thursday afternoon
of last week brutal assault was made on
child less than four years old near school
house in the suburbs Of Minneapolis, by q
ruf1ian named Frank McManus, subsequently
learned to have come there lately from Boston
Several women caught HIM in the act and
were the means of his arrest. The child was
so cut and lacerated by the brute that Its life
lsdespaired of. The fiend was placed IN the
county Jail, but at night 1t having been
rumored that the child was dead, 70 disguised
citizens went to the Jail and taking McManus
out by force conveyed him to the vicinity OF
the school house, where they strung him up
on the limbs of stout oak tree At 8 O'Clock
next morning his dead body was cut down by
the coroner and buried.
AT GALLON, ONO. Recently negro, Frank
Fisher, at Gallon, Ohio, under circumstances
of extreme brutality, committed rape on q
13.year old German girl of that place named
Barbara Kettig, the negro making his escape.
The strictest search for him was set on foot at
once, resulting in his arrest last Sunday morn
ing at Frederickstown. On being conveyed
to Gallon to Jail a mob of several thousand
people soon surrounded the place determined to
lynch him. The officers were powerless against
the Infatuated crowd. The negro was seized
and marched to the bedside of his victim for
Identification, and she promptly, on seeing
him, answering THAT is the man." moose
was thrown over his head and he was dragged
to a tree in the rear OF the lot. His hands
were tied behind his back a handkerchief put
over his face, and he was strung up at 10
O'Clock p. NJ. on Sunday. The mob when
satisfied that he was dead, quietly dispersed.
Attempt on; the Life of W. H. Vanderbilt aud
Cyrus W. Field,
A dastardly attempt was made last Saturday
in New York city, by some miscreant on the
lives of VIM II. Vanderbilt and Cyrus w
Field About o'clock IN the afternoon a
couple of paste board boxes, about the size of
cigar boxes, were dropped into the post office
duly stamped and directed to the individuals
named. They were placed in the mail bags
and sent to the uptown district by the elevated
railway. On the way one of the boxes cxplod
ed in the mail bag, setting 1t on fire, where
upon it was transferred to the platform and
then placed on a wogan and taken to the Goth
street post office station and opened and con
tents examined. 1t was found that the explo
sion had occurred in the package addressed
to Vanderbilt,upon which the other addressed
to Fleld-was submerged in water and then
carefully opened. Inside OF it was found a
tin box containing about pound of powder
with avail, containing sulphuric acid and a
white salt, afterwards ascertained to be chlorate
OF potash, so placed that, on drawing a string,
the sulphurlc acid and white powder would
cause an explosion, of course sufficient TO en-
danger the life of any one holding the box in
his hand. Fortunately neither box reaching its
destination, both gentlemen escaped. A SIM.
lar box on the same evening, was left at the
door of Superintendent Waling, of the city
police force.
The Jenny Cramer Trial.
The trial of the Malley boys and Bnache
Douglass, at New Haven, tor the murder of
Jenny Cramer, promises to excel the Guiteau
trial in length. The witnesses thus far ex
ahmed are medical experts in an attempt on