The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1883-07-28

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minute; and looking at it in a cold.
blooded, deliberate, rlgidly legal
light and analysis, one is at first
dispo $50 to doubt that the son VIII %
was hanged did ashow u good OK
ample to prosperity" whom he "de-
trauded and killed strangers with.
out martial or common law. But
going directly and in a mo bbish
fashion, without duo and formal pro-
eress OF law, right at tho apparent
common sense OF tho record, we an.
derstand at once that the father
hanged his son without martial or
common law, to show u good OK
ample and teach posterity n short
cut to JUSTICE, when tho wlndinPs
and maEes Of common law were in.
expleably and misleading. 1t
seems, by the chronicle, that young
Lynch had been sent to Spain by
his father the Mayor, TO purchase a
cargo of tho vino that biteth log
wood and stingeth like a madden
whom it givolh Its dye color Alright
in the cup.
But tho young man wasted his
substance in riotous living and farod
sumptuoualy three times day and
four or five tunes nj ght, and spent
all his money at the bar and in tho
faro room, before he bought his car.
go. However,, his rating waa good,
and he loaded his ship on short
credit, thirty, sixty and ninety
days, fifteen of, and sailed ioyously
for home intending to beat tho
state and say nothlRg to his father
about the paper, but the credit man
of the concern, who didn't exactly
like the looks of things, sent his
nephew along to collect the money
in Galloway. Seeing that hls noph.
ew's presence would naturally cause
a GOODNESS in the family circle as
soon as he presented his statement,
young Lynch "expodlted" matters
by tossing the spaniard INTO the
loud sounding sea and then sailed
ioyousIy on in an ever widening
moral horizon, and undcr m intel
loctual sky that was infinitely cloud
But one Of the sailors sometime
attorw ards lay down to do and
when ho was positively assured that
he could not live long enough to be
hanged for his share in the transao-
ton, told Lord Mayor Lynch how
his son had killed the Spaniard.
Tried before his own father tho
young merchant was convicted ond
sentenced to bo hanged, Tho iami-
ly and friends violently prevented
the execution wheroupon the Mayor
took his son up stairs, fastened q
staple to tho wall, with his own
hands adjusted the moose about tho
young mans neck, pushed him out
of a window overlooking tho public
street, and there hanged him in tho
manner and reasons SGT forth in the
record. Whenever you talk about
lynch law think Of John Fit2sLcphen
Lynch, Mayor Of Galloway, who
filed tho first caveat for an invon-
ton generally supposed to be Amer
lcan.
The Mayors patent, however dld
not cover tho entire ground Of
Lynch court the prisoner had been
legally and formally tried, convict
cd and sentenced. Many years af-
forward a Virginia farmer named
Lynch got ont an improvement
He captured thloi and kno wing
that if no turned hum over to the
authorities he would himself DO
moro savagely abusod as witness
by tho prisoner 3 counsel than any
ielon in the dock, and knowing that
il would be q toss.up whether the
average potit jury would punish the
prisoner or the prosecuting witness,
tho cnptor organized little court OF
his own. He tried tho case while
no was tying tho prisoner to a tree
he pronounced sentonco while he
trimmed and twisted tho hickorios,
and thon no executed tho sentence
himself by whipping the thief until
tho court was tired.
This was genuine Lynch law, anC