The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-06
AN ORDERLY MOB
Takes One Whitney From Jail at
Hermann, Missouri,
And in. Spite of His Prayers and APP
pea1s, Strings rim up.
Tragedy in Eowa---An Unknown
Woman shoots a Friend" of
Hers Through the
Head.

ST. LOUIS, No, June 5--A special from
Hermann, Mo, says that the city wasthrown
into a state of intense excitement shortly
after niaI ht this morning, by the lynch--
ing Of Nh..ney, the murderer of young Bur
chard. The mob numbered about 200. They
surrounded the jail, guards being stationed
with drawn REVIEWERS to keep back the curl
Gus crowd which was attracted by the noise
made IN lleaking the Jail doors. The jailer
refused to surrender the keys, when axes were
brought Whitney supposed the purpose of
the assault, and crouched upon his cell floor
and prayed ferventiy. His voice could be
heard outside. The jailer was forced to lead
the way to Whitney's cell, which was then
forced open, and long rope which the mob
had brought with them was put around his
waist Half fainting, the doomed man fell
on his knees. When once in the open air he
asked leave to pray again. This was granted,
but as he continued his appeals to heaven too
long he was jerked to his feet and dragged
through the town into dense woods that
covers the bluffs, a dozen of the lynching
party warning the crowd not to follow, and
ntinidating them by displaying revolvers,
1t was expected that the court would hold
a special session to try the accused, but when
it was announced yesterday that the trial
would go over to the fall term the indigna-
ton was general, and threats of lynching
were made The mob was quite orderly in
its behavior There was an absence of con-
ventional masks, and many of the lynchers
were recognized. The last seen of Whitney
he was being taken into the woods by the
lynchers; ere this he is dead.
Later-A special to The Post-DispatSh
from Hermann says When the woods were
reached, the prisoner was handed over to a
dozen masked men. He said his real name
was Fisher, and not Whitney; that his par
ents lived in Virginia; he did not know
whether he killed Burehard or not, as he and
his partner whose name was Collier, fired
five shots each. He then shook hands with
part of the mob bidding them good-by, after
which he was strung to a tree, The mob
then dispersed. The sheriff took charge of
the body this morning, and the coroner is
now holding an inquest.
Whitney was a desperate of the James
stripe. He and another outlaw named Col
lier, after robbing several stores in Gaseon-
ale county on the 10Th Of last month, at
tempted to burglalize the store of Burchard
& Lakes, in the little town of Bein, during
which they shot and killed young Burchard, a
son of one of the proprietors.
DESPERATE HUNT IN IOWA.
SUMNER, Iowa, June ga report reached
Sumner at p. m. Sunday that the Barber
brothers were seen ii the school-house three
miles north of Sumer. A. II. Jarvis, deputy
sheriff of Bremen county, with six men,
started after them. When near the school
house the party separated The Barber boys
were soon seen by some Of the party, and
fired at They ran south, and were met
by Jarvis, when they the boys COM
menced shooting at Jarvis, and hit
Jarvis in the shoulder. and the BARRIERS
escaped Sheriff Fair, of West Union, was
here Monday with one hundred men, and
they are trying to capture them This morn
ing the BARRIERS were at a house one mile
south of Tlipol, and parties have gone there
after them The sheriff Of Black Hawk
county has started out from Waterloo and is
coming north The BARRIERS left their coats
and boots, Sunday evening, in the woods
near Summer Jarvis is not dangerously
wounded. All the citizens of Sumner were
out Sunday night and Monday hunting for
the Barber boys.
MURDER BY A WOMAN.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, June 5--A special tele
gram from Waverly says a man from Fort
Dodge, named Stevens, employed by the
w., TT,so.,