Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-08-28
A DOUBLE CRIME.


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city Of h Saints.
Andrew Burt, City Marshal, WAS shot
and killed in Salt Lake City on Saturday
afternoon by q colored man named Sam.
J. Harvey. and another officer was severely
wounded. Burt was trying to arrest the
negro, who, when the officer approached
him, asked: "Are you an officer" and
then fred with Q shotgun, wounding the
officer, who died in q few minutes. The
negro then had the shotgun wrenched
from his hands, when he drew a revolver
and shot another officer before he was dis
armed. The murderer was taken to Jail,
but the Marshal's death occurring in the
meantime . large crowd assembled at the
building and proceeded to lynch the assas-
sin, the officers turning him over to the
mob and assisting in the lynching. Burt,
the man who was killed, although an Off
Ger, was nevertheless possessed of a very bad
reputation. He was alleged to have been
one of the assassins who killed DIR. Robin
son in Salt Lake City in 1866, and was
charged with being . member of the gang
known as the Destroying Angels" who
butchered scores of men, women and
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was formerly q member Of the Salt Lake
Police force, who were accused Of the
murder of Brassield, . Nevadan, while in
company with the United States Marshal,
in 1865. Concerning the murder and
lynching IN Saturday the Salt Lake Tri-
bune editorially says:
Yesterday while in pursuance OF his
duty the City Marshal was fatally shot by
q wretch who was either a lunatio or a
fearful desperate. The murder vas most
terrible, and il the murderer was not q
raving lunatic he richly deserved to die
for it. He was arrested and taken to the
Marshals office, and after being searched
was, while in the Office, knocked down by
the officers in charge, beaten with billies
and brass knucles and mercilessly kick
ed while down. Then he was taken out
and thrown in q cell, then word was given
that the Marshal was dead, whereupon the
officers gave up their victim to the crowd,
which proceeded to hang him. In IS min
utes after the Marshal was shot his MUIR
derer was hanging dead, partly from
his beating by the officers, partly from
strangulatiop.
The crowd was of that kind which three
resolute policemen could have held at bay
without difficulty. but the officers present
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dead he was lowered, and the crowd
started to drag him through the street.
when the Mayors command at last awed
the mob into decency. This, we must re-
men ber was perpetrated in q city Of
25, 900 people, where all the courts are in
full force, and it was accomplished through
the direct assistance of the officers who are
the sworn conservators of the peace. 1t
was lone under the MONDAY sun and in
the shadow Of the Temple of the Saints.
We do not believe that there has been a
parallel to the case in American history.
Mobs have hung men repeatedly, but
never before that we remember Of have the
policemen who bad the prisoner in charge,
first beaten him into half-insensibility and
then turned him over to the mob. This is
not a question between Mormon and Gen.
tile: it is one in which the good name of
the city government is at stake. Had the
same thing happened in the Office OF the
United States Marshal we would demand
the Marsbal's instant dismissal and that Of
all his deputies. Now, in the name OF the
law which was yesterday so cowardly in
suited by officers sworn to uphold it, we
call upon the city authorities to vindicate
their claim and the claim Of their people
that they are a ~law-abiding people, and
that they stand ready to punish unfaith-
fulness on the part Of those in whom they
repose official trusts.