The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-03-17

emerged ~ II miuui" with Il coil OF rope
in his hand. He shock il before tbs
crowd, n pierCIuS Yell was the response
10 The suggestions, and ~ one man the
5OO assembled miners rushed toward
the jail.
1t was about 5 O'Clock when the kill
ing took place, and it WAS nearly q,
and dark, before the advance guard OF
The Old Telegraph miners reached
town. The city marshal, who had
Moore i'll charge, knew from the gen
eral bearing OF tho miners that they
meant to lynch his prisoner, and il
being his duty to protect him, he
resolved TO do so to the best of his
ability. SO, while the miners were
viewing the remains of Kemble, the
liiarsh hal slipped his prisoner out of the
calabOOse, locked the door, and rushed
him toward all ore tramwuy track back
OF the town. The marshal had fnur
trusiy men to assist him, ami unobsCrv
ell they made their way to deserted
mine, about hail mile from town
They entered the tunnel and all six
men, the marshal, his four assistants
and The prisoner built up walls of rock
III the tunnel 80 as to protect themselves
from the crowd In case of discovery.
The mine had tunnel about 100 fee,
long, and was tapped near the end by a
shalt about IS feet deep. Both the
shaft and mine had long been abandon
ed, and were reeking with foul water,
which had lodged in low places i'll the
bottom of the tunnel, making tepid
pools, which were the headquarters OF
! toads and scorpions. The timbcrs had
been pulled out of the shaft and tunnel,
and the wall of both were falling in,
making il almost as dangerous for
Moore and his guardians 10 remain
there as to go out and brave the wrath
of the angry miners. But they stuck
to the mine, filed the passageway in
the tunnel with rock and debris, and
retired to the least dangerous place to
await events.
When the miners, led by Appleby,
went to the calab pOse they found the
door locked. They surrounded the
building, and dozen of them went TO
the barred window and discharged
their pistols in the direction OF the
cells. Hearing no response TO their
demands TO open the door, one OF the
assauIting party went to ncighborlng
store, procured n couple of pieces of
giant powder and placed them under
the corner of the building i'll manner
that miners knew would be effective.
The fuse was touched and the miners
scampercd off to watch results. In u
minute dull sound was heard and the
heavy logs that made the wall of the
building were severed and an aperture
made through which a man could east
ly crawl. 1t did not take long for n
mau to enter. In few moments he
reported that the Jail was empty. Then
it dawncd on the miners that Moore
had escaped and their fury was terrific.
They were confident from the first that
he was within their reach. There 81 ere
told that he was arrested by the city
marshal and Jailed in the caiabOOse.
The city marshal was miner and
was elected by the votes of miners and
they felt quite confident that when they
wanted their man all they had to do
was to go to tho Jail and take him ont
and hang him. But the city mar
shal was an old soldier trained TO do
his duty faithfully and well. He was a
friend of Kemble and the miners,
and despised Moore and the
gamblers, but he felt that it wa,
his duty to turn NJ '0re over to the
, sheriff Of Salt Lake county and let the
law deal with him. lie hated Moore
hut he would have given mp his lie to
defend him. The miners knew the
man they had TO deal with, nnd came
TO the conclusion that prompt and wig
|
; the murderer. The thought that they
might be baked in their desire for ven
geance maddened them. Miners IRON
lie different mines in the camp had
Joined the Old Telegraph men before
1880, swelling the crowd to fully oOO
Il was concluded that the marsh al had
The prisoner in charge somewhere III the
' vicinity of town, and 1t was resolved
to scour the vicinity i'll search OF him
-
With a whoop the miners started out
to seSrch for the murderer. In gangs
| Of twenty-five or thirty each the mel
skirmishcd all over the mountain sides
} Prospect holes were searched, cabins
we're examined and every nook where
il was likely that q man could be con
cealed was penetrated. The miners
were furious. The echoes Of theil
, oaths resounded through the 9ulches
They were, to all intents and purposes,
madmen. In their search over the
Z mountain sides they stumbled oVGi
rocks, fell into prospect-holes, became
entangled in the vicious cactus bushes
Iand mired in The muddy dumps OF
mines. / have seen packs of hungry
coyotes on the plains OF Colorado, herds
of wild steers on the Panhandle oI
Texas, maddened for want of water, d
yang of Apache Indians on the war
path, but never did | see anything to
equal in wild ferocity the miners o
Bingham looking for the murderer UI
their comrade on the beautiful spring
= night iu 1878. Man is the most dan
yrrous of animals when stirred up
When he seeks his prey he is desperate
when he is tbwarted he Is furious
The miners continued the search unit
after midnight, and then met, being
summoned together by pistol shot
| about a mile from town. Fiery speeches
we're made and the blame OF the escape
# Moore was placed on the town mar
shal. IL was resolved to return to to VI
and hang the marshal. As they were
l returning in solid body along an ore
lramway, they passed by the old tuu-
mel where Moore and his guardians had
taken shelter. They were passing it bs
without notice when a little spitz dog
was seen cruuching near the mouth q!
} the tunnel. One of the mon picked NJ
the tirnid little animal, and Ii was ice
I ognized Us belonging TO notornu'
! woman with whom Moore lived. Ght
dog generally accompanied Moore
tround town, and it's presence at tbs
mouth of the tunnel convinced The
miners that Moore WAS i'll hiding there
A dash was made for the tunnel. In
before they proceeded three feet "n'
| IiruciiOus were encountered. mtichcE
| we're struck aud the arrangements OI
the rocks and old wood convinced them
hat they were only recently placed
there. 80 it was supposed they HAD
run down the game. The eXciiemenl
consequent on the discovery was terrific
Shots were fired along the tunnel. ;iid
1.-THE ub>truclions were set aside "A,
fast az y ,ssible. Bat removing the q !.
5tructiOns was no easy task. Ihc ian
nel had caved in, III many places, an''
At these points rocks and tilnbcrs were
piled np closely. But the miners, con
lideut that they had their man, worked
with a will aud made fair headway
They had removed three barriers when
shots were fired at them from the III
side. Then they were sure that they
had located their man. While the great
body of the miners were at work
clearing passage through the tunnel Il
few slraggIcrs went up town To get