Huntsville gazette., 1886-11-20
MOB VENGEANCE.

AndreS7 j. MuIligan, the Murderer oi
jam n. Hamilton Taken From Jail al
HARRISON, Ark, Strung Up and Shot to
Deash by a Mob of Armed, Mounted aud
UHknown Citizens.
| HAfs&isoN, Ark. Noy. 15.-There is much
exclt@nent here over the lynching of An
drewEJ. Mulligan. alias James Page, the
nurdkger of James N. Hamilton, Saturday
nightt by mob who took him from the
| Jaa anl shot him to death.
Mnlijgan was brought here from Macon
to aypH lynching. and had been here about
asEees. during all of which time a guard
hs ''ren kept at the jail, as the sheriff
vas aDprised that an attack would be
Hamilton's friends in Harrison
aus Macon counties to wroak vengeance
On the murderer.
Between twelve and one o'clock as a
number of persons We're returning from u
society gathering, and the two guards
were leisurely strolling around the Jail
and eEdcavoring to keep out from a cold
drizzling rain that was falling constantly,
a number of mounted men appeared in the
street. A reporter CHANGED to be passing
near the Jail and was first to notice any
thing uncommon in the street. He saw
five horsemen with faces turned toward
entirely by, then came back to the square
in which the jail is situated and returned
to the street from which they had just
come, and where they were lost to view in
the darkness.
Attention was called to the men, but as
nothing more was heard of them at this
time it was not thought necessary to raise
the alarm.
ln lon IF oh h.N,, fyx-n, ~
five or thirty men, heavily armed and well
mounted, suddenly pounced upon the jail
guards, and captured them without q
struggle.
They demanded the jail keys and being
told that they were in the possession Of
the jailer. who was at his home, they fore
cd the guard to accompany them to the
house, where they found and captured the
jailer and making sure that he had the
Keys with him, took him to the Jail and or
tered him 10 open the door. This he re-
fused to do but gave up the KEYS to the
mob. who Immediately proceeded to open
he Jail and brought out the prisoner. Null
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About this time, an alarm having been
sounded from two or three church bells,
by citizens who had learned what was be-
whom was the sheriff, gathered near the
iail, but were stood off by the mob, who
warned them TO approach no nearer.
a rope was thrown around the neck of
he prisoner, who stood bound hand and
DOT in heavy chains, and two horsemen
al1ing hold Of it, literally dragged the
miserable wretch, who begged for mercy
IS he.went down the Tellcville road across
r 'rooied Creek, to- the edge OF the town,
md about four blocks from the Jail. where
ome twenty or thirty more horsemen
waited them. ~4t
Here they threw the rope over a limb Of
tree that stood near, and rs the wretch
vas drawn up they riddled his body with
ullets aIld then let it fall to the ground.
where it lay until this morning under
heriff' $ guard. when the coroner's inquest
vas held, The jury returning a verdict of
'eath by shooting at the hands Of unknown
arties.
Mulligan'5 crime was committed on the
"a ult He was employed by Hamilton TO
work on farm. He had been thus en-
loyed about four months. and was treat
d as one Of the family. If any enmity or
'ause for it existed between him and his
mploycr it has never beer made known.
On the night Of the murder he left Ham
Iton's 70 spend the night al neighbours.
While Hamilton lay in his he'd asleep
4Iulligan. or Page, as he was then known,
crept into the room, and, taking Hamil
on's pistol from where it hung On the
vail, shot him through the brain and went
back to the neighbor's. Fe was arrested,
md confessed the crime, but gave no
credible account Of his motive, which still
remains q mystery