The Forrest City times., 1888-09-29
Ga, sslo.s5. Other items range from s2n0 down.
LEWIS DAVIS LYNCHED.
Brutal Work of . Blob in Crawford
 County, Mo.

County, Mo.
 CUBA, Mo, Sept. 24.-Lewis Davis, who for six months has been confined in the St. Louis jail on the charge of numbering his neighbor and friend, David Miller. and who was brought here last Tuesday for trial at the Cir cult Court now in session, was taken from jail and hung by mob. Masked men came into town about two o'clock this morning, battered down the iron doors of the jail, led him away and lynched him.
 HIS CRIME.
 Davis was charged with the murder of David Miller on the 2d of last Janu- ary. On that day Miller left home C meet Davis and go to town twelve miles of, to pay his taxes. He never returned and, after weeks search was found murdered, shot through the head and his pockets rifed. The bull let found in his brain fitted the pistol found on Davis, which had a peculiar rifle in the bore. There were other circumstances that pointed to Davis guilt including proven falsehoods told by Davis as to his whereabouts. He would have been mobbed at the time he was arrested, but was taken to St. Louis for safe-keeping. A jury had been selected to try him and the case would.have been called at Il o'clock tomorrow.
 THE LYNCHING.
 This morning, between ? and : o'clock, runner came to the Sheriff ard informed him that there was mob coming, and he sent R. F. Dunlap, deputy sheriff, to inform Judge Bland, who was stopping at the hotel, and got some advice as to what 10 do; but the deputy only got short distance when he met the mob, about forty masked men, who took him in charge and marched him back to the jail. They then went to blacksmith shop and procured coal chiSels and hammers anl returned to the Jail and cut the door down
 Only one guard was on duty at the jail and he was soon mastered. Davis fought desperately with a piece of the heavy bedstead in his cell, but was oyerpowered and led away with rope around his neck. Every street was gudTQeu, no OIit Was dilOWtu lO WlI- ness the tragedy.
 They put rope around Davis neck and forced him out and took him about half mile north of Steelville, on the Cuba road, and hung him to the limb of post oak tree, immediately over the grave of Pat Wallace, who was hung by mob October f, 1886, for the murder of the Logan family.
 Circu Court was in session last week and will meet next week. Davis case would have come up for trial Monday. The jury was already selected and was composed of the best men in Crawford County, and there is no doubt that Davis would have been convicted oi murder in the first degree. No doubt the mob was enraged by the acquittal of Ebert Clonts, who was tried here last week under an indictment for the murder of his father some three years ago.
 WILL BE INvEkTiGATED.
 The better class of society of this county discourage mobs and mob yio- lence, and are very anxious that the guilty parties be brought to justice. There is strong suspicion that the leaders of this mob are some of the same parties that lynched Pat Wallace two years ago, and the matter will be investigated, as Judge Bland has ordered a special grand jury composed of the representative men of the county to inquire into the matter, and says all violators of the law must be pun shed to the full extent of the law.
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