Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-20
JUDGE LYNCH AT WORK.
This Time He Works in a Connecticut
 Village.
FOR A BRUTAL CRIME.
Frank Nearing Strung up by a Mob for an Assault on His Brothers .ife-- He is Cut Down and Resuscitated by the Officers

NEW MILFORD, Conn.,, May 2o.-One of the most brutal crimes ever committed in this state was enacted in the outskirts of the town here Saturday evening Mrs. Charles Nearing, the wife of a wealthy resident of Lanesville, spent Saturday afternoon in shopping, and after finish. ing her shopping she went to the railroad station to take the train for Lanesville.
 While thus waiting her brother-in-law, Frank, who is about 22 years old and married, drove up to the railroad station and jumping from his buggy informed his sisterin-law that he was just about to drive to Lanesville and asked her to ride with him. When about mile outside the village he tuned his horse into a road leading through~ a mountain and away from Lanesville. Upon inquiring the cause of his taking this road the sister-in-law was informed that hess had a message to leave with a farmer living about threeFmiles further along.
 The road is a lonely one and is seldom used. There is but one house on it's en- tire length. When about mile further along Mrs. Nearing said her brother-in- law began to make improper Srayances, and she sprang from the carriage.
 Nearing sprang after her, letting the horse go galloping away. In springing from the carriage Mrs. Nearing fell, slightly spraining her ankle, and before she could rise Nearing sprang upon her and literally tore her dress into shreds. He left his sister-in-law lying by the road and fled into the woods.
 Mrs. Nearing, more dead than alive,
 dragged herself toward the house of the faNner, but had not proceeded far when
 she was met by the farmer and his hired m an, who had been alarmed by the team
 galloping madly past the house The
 farmer and his hired man assisted Mrs.
 Nearing to his house, when he at once
 started for New Milford and notified the
 authorities. An armed force of officers
 was dispatched to search for young Near
 ing, and at II o'clock Saturday night he
 was captured in the interior of the woods He was immediately lodged in Jail here, and anticipating trouble, an armed force of officers was detailed to guard the prisoner.
 At about o'clock yesterday morning the officers, who were all stationed in the room adjoining the cell in which the prisoner was confined, were surprised by the bursting in of the door, and several hundred men, weafing white masks sprang upon them. The officers were too drowsy to intelligently use theil revolyers and they were bound hand an6 1oOt. The Key to Nearlngs cell was soon taken from one of the officers, and the prisoner, who was now loudly crying fer mercy, was roughly seized anC bound also hand and foot. A rope was loosely slipped around Hearings neck while the mob, carrying him with them hurried toward @ tree near by.
 By this time the entire population O. | the town had been aroused by the noise of the scuffle in the jail, toward which l they began to hurry. The lynchers, how ever, were set in their determination tC sling up the young man, and, seeing the ! crowd, began to tighten the rope around his neck. The foremost men in the crowC now whipped out their revolvers and be gan wildly firing toward the lynchers. A the commencement of the firing the 1 lynchers fled, and all of them made gooC 1 their escape, although 1t is believed tha | some of them were wounded.
 | Nearing had been left at the foot O ! the tree. He was found In an uncon ! scious state. The moose was quickly de ! tached from the young mans neck, an( 1 he was soon restored to consciousness 1 by several physicians. More trouble be ! ing feared, the prisoners guard has beer ! increased,