The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-08-16
A Carnival Of Crime.

Tho city Of Shenandoah, Iowa, has been IN
nm uproar of excitement. On Friday night
Frank Phillips. q dglyman, who had as.
saulted the six-year-old daughter of +. j.
Pine, prominent merchant, vas taken from
the Jail by n mob OF masked men, who bat
desperately, but his clothes were soon
stripped off, and he was thoroughly tarred
and feathered. He fell senseless to
the ground, in which condition he was
Eound by the sheriff, whose appearance
with a posse put the mob to flight The
man vas carried back to the jail and
physicians summoned. While they were en-
gagged in retaoving the tar the Jail was
again surrounded The sheriff surrendered
Phillips without q struggle. The mob dragged
him to the street, his hands and feet were
pinioncd to n lamp post and the lash ap-
piled until the blood came. He uttered fear.
ful cries. When tho mob got tired of whip
ping the prisoner they throw rope around
lis neck, dragged him to r. 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, q desperate.
Gallop escaped to his house in the outskirts
of the city where he was surrounded by
officers. The house was dark. Tho windows
we're all closed and securely fastened and the
doors were strongly barricaded While the
officers were attempting to effect an sa:
trance Gallop opened fire on the crowd from
IN upper window. Two of the officers
were killed and several wounded. Gallop
piled with ammunition. The militia were
called ont, but before they arrived tbs mob
succeeded in capturing Gallop and lynching
him by hanging him to n tree.
The dispatches show that three men were
killed, and half n dozen wounded, and that
the first victim was Il. 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 dovishness, having
been strung up by the frenzied citizens. was
Frank Gallop, desperate young character,
whose misdeeds had made him notorious in
Southwestern Iowa. Gnllop and his father
had quarreled and the young man assaulted
the old man.
A brother came TO the young mans reseua
and the father was receiving a severe beating
at the hands of his sons when the cries at
tracted the neighbors. Pine and halfa dozen
other men camo to the Gallop house and in:
ferfered. Gallop whipped out aRun and fired
at hecrowd. At the first shot Pine foil dead,
and before his Mortified companions .were
scarcely aware of the tragedy Gallop had fled
from the scene,
Frenzied as tho people tills were with the
remembrance of the violence of the day be-
fore the news, which spread like wild fire. was
enough to collect mob of larger proper.
tions and far greater determination than had
thronged the streets the previous day, Pine
was highly respe ted merchant and one 81
the foremost citizens of Shenandoah and
leaves wife and two children. Searching
parties, three or four persons in each group
run up and down the streets without leader
but with the ono thought uppcrmost in the
minds of every One--tO find the hiding place
of the miscreant and wccak summary vsnge
ance upon him.
Suddenly shout went up. Galloph had been
found concealed in house just back of the
telegraph Office. A rush Was madefor his hiding
place, but tho young Desperate stood at thu