Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-08-23
Carnival Of Crime.

The city Of Shenandoah, Iowa. has been IN
an uproar of excitement. On Friday night
Frank Phillips, n dreyman, who had az
saulted the s~ix-year-old daughter of +. J.
Pine, n prominent merchant, was taken from
the jail by a mob OF masked men, who bat
tered the door down The prisoner struggled
desperately, but his clothes we're soon
stripped of, and lie was thoroughly tarred
and feathered. He fell senseless TO
the ground, in which condition he was
found by the sheriff, whose appearance
witt a posse put the mob TO fight. The
man was carried back to the jail and
physicians summoned. While they were en-
gagged in removing the tar the Jail was
again surrounded. The sheriff surrendered
Phillips without astruggle. The mobdragged
him to the street, his hands and feet were
piDioned to n lamp post and the lash ap-
piled until the blood came. He uttered fear
full cries. When the mob got tired of whip
ping the prisoner they threw a rope around
his neck, dragged him 10 a telegraph pole
and hauled him into the air several times
He was then in a half dead condition, and
upon his promise to leave town was released.
The next night Mr.. Pine was shot and in
stantly killed by Frank Gallop, a Desperate.
Gallop escaped to his house in the outskirts
OF the city where he was surrounded by
officers. The house was dark. The windows
we're all closed and securely fastened and the
doors were strongly barricaded. While the
officers were attempting to effect an en-
trance Gallop opened fire on the crowd from
an upper window. Two of the officers
were killed and several wounded. Gallon
used a Winchester and was plentifully sup
piled with ammunition. The militia were
called out, but before they arrived the mob
succeeded in capturing Gailop and lynching
him by hanging him to q tree.
The dispatches show that three men were
killed, and half a dozen wounded, and that
the first victim was I. J. Pine, father Of the
little girl who was assaulted, although his
death did not grow out ofthe trouble with Phil
lips, but from entirely different causes. The
bloody author of to-day's tragedy, and who
paid the penalty Of his devilishness, having
been strung up by tho frenzied citizens. was
Frank Gallop. a desperate young character,
who's misdeeds had made him notorious in
Southwestern Iowa. Gallop and his father
had quarrelled and the young man assaulted
the old man.
A brother came 20 the young mans rescue
and the father was receiving a severe beating
at the hands Of his sons when the cries at
traeted the neightors. Pine andhaHa dozen
other men came to the Gallop house and in
terfered. Gallop whipped ont a gun and fred
at thecrowd. At the first shot Pine fell dead.
and before his Mortified companions were
scarcely aware Of the tragedy Gallop had fed
from the scene.
Fren1ied as the people tills were with the
remembrance of the violence. Of the day be-
fore the news, which spread like wild Ere, was
enough to collect a mob Of larger propor-
tions and far greater determination than had
thronged the streets the previous day. Pine
was n highly respected merchant and one of
the foremost citizens of Shenandoah and
leaves a wife and two children. Searching
parties, three or four persons in each group,
ran upand down the streets without a leader.
but with the one thought %uppermost in the