Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-12
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the Raw river. The circumstances which lee
 to this action by Judge Lynch are as follows
 Less than ten days since David Bausman, g
 well to-do farmer from southern Ohio, | reached Lawrence on visit to some relatives
 who reside in the county, and getting to
 town after dark he concluded to remain all
 night before going to his brothers house.
 In going about the city Bausman visited sev- l eral saloons and at one unwisely exhibited 8 | large roll of bank bills which was seen by 1 Isaac King, roustabout at the saloon. The l negro at once determined to obtain the
 money, and called in the assistance of Peter Vinegar and George Robertson, all low ne-
 groes. The three concocted plan to kill
 Bausman, and shortly after midnight the
 intoxicated was met by ''Sis'
 Vinegar, the degraded daughter of one of the
 parties, who allured him from the street
 toward the Kaw river, and at last led
 him to the rear of an old ieehouse, where he
 was knocked down and killed, and after his
 clothes had been thoroughly searched his
 body was thrown into the river. It was found
 two days later and recognized and in less
 than five days from the time of finding the
 body the three murderers were captured and
 lodged in iail-King and Robertson being ar
 rested by the police of this city. The men
 were given 8 preliminary examination yester
 day, and all of them confessed their guilt,
 even giving all the details of the plot, and
 then ''Sis'' Vinegar led Bausman to his doom
 with her blandishments. The girl admitted it all, and last night when they were remand ed to jail talk of lynching was openly in-
 dulged in, but the citizens and officers tbOnObt tbav oo116 the and m alarm was felt, though the fate of the pris oners was sealed, and about one o'clock this morning over one hundred masked men sud denly surrounded the jail as if they had sprung from the ground, and demands were immediately made to the jailer for the keys. The officer refused to give them up, and in | less than minute the doors of the jail were battered down and the infuriated mob rushed l into the corridor, to the cells where the l doomed men were confined, without any pre- l liminaries. The cells were also broken down | and the cowardly, shrinking wretches dragged | out into the open air with halters about their 1 necks and rushed toward the Kansas river l bridge, near which point the murder was 1 committed
 The men were not given time even for a l prayer, although King begged for few mo- l ments in which to prepare himself, and upon 1 the arrival of the mob at the river bank the 1 three murderers were pushed from the east l oTn pleF ol hHe O[luSe, Oue eHu oL Iue IOpes l having been attached to the stringers. King l and Robertson fought like tigers for their 1 lives and only by desperate efforts were they l pushed into eternity. When it became l known about Lawrence during the early hours l this morning that the men had been lynched l the greatest excitement prevailed. The l State University is located at that | point and the city is overcrowded 1 with visitors from abroad, the com exercises being at their height. l On every side deep regret is uttered that the l town has been so disgraced but not word l of sympathy is uttered for the murderers.
 It is known that the lynching party came 1 from the eastern portion of Douglas county, 1 near where the murdered mans relatives re- sided, but they also had the assistance and | co operation of many citizens Not since ] that August day in 1863 when the rebel l guerilla Quantrell rode into Lawrence and 1 sacked the city with his horde of Missouri l leaving the dead bodies of eighty l citizens behind, has the city passed through l such a state of excitement as during the past l twenty four hours.