, 1890-04-30
Lynch-LPw.
From the daily TeIegraph.)

Ly ..ch. Law and he summary processes of
"Jeddart Justice Springing from the dread
initiative of that mysterious potrntate
Judge Lynch" are not yet out of date in
the Far West Of the American Republic.
1t may not be generally known that the
greatest uncertainty sill prevails as 10 tue
identity aud nationality of the original
Judge Lynch, 10 whom is attributed the
far-tamed dictum, Hang first and try af-
terwanlS," which is also said to have been
used during the Civil War between Charles
/. and The PdrliamentarianS by General
John Brown, of Abingdon in Berkshire. Be
this as it may, it is by no means certain
whether the Judge Lynch who is the only
Judicial authority respected in som Of the
Western States and Territories of the
Union is OF American or European Origi
II is held by some that Mayor Lynch, of
Galway, III Ireland, who in 1893 executed
his own son in the market place FOR murder
and tIled the dead body afterwards, was
the archetypc OF model from which tho
A merlcan Judges who have since initiated
his example derived their Inspiration. 0 hers
again maintain that the name was borne
by a rOugh-and-ready Irish Sel-capt ain
whom Cromwell sent to the coast OF Vir.
ginia in or about the year 1850, to punish
wv - ~ " bNill liz NNbuObi u OtE W CtIL
Roanoke Island and the Capes of the
Chesapeake was infested. The balance of
opinion leads, however, to the belief tha.
Judge Lynch was Il Virginian by birth,
and that he was n planter who undertook
to rid the DisLal Swamp aud its surround.
ing Businesses Of outlaws from Justice, and
OF runaway slaves who had taken retu &c
III that imppnetrable sanctuary, of which
such q powerful description is given in
Mrs. Beecher Stoves romance Of "Drpd."
Lastly there Is Il tradition in the family Of
the Drake s, of North Carolina, which as.
crlbeS the pdraS. to the prrcipitate hang
ing, to prevent his being rescued, of Il Tory
or lOyalist Major named Beard, who was
summary pat our of che way in 1880, on
Lynch Creek, in Franklin County, North
Carolina. When it was found that the
Tories, or supporters of George Ill, were
not in pursuit Of the "rehef' who had CAP.
turcd Major Beard and carried him away
the captOrs went through the form Off court
martial, and hanged the lifeleSS body over
again i'll confirmation OF its decree. What
ever may be his origin, Judge Lynch is
by no means without value in those wild
regions OF the Far West where the duties
OF the Sheriff cannot be discharged without
considerable peril to that official and his at.
tendantS. Readers of Sir Charles bikes
Greater Britain" published in 1858, will
not have forgotten his thrilling description
of the stirring life led by Gilpin, the first
Governor Of Colorado, when he was Sheriff
of Denver in the early d~aysOfthat now pros.
porous and tranquil town. Judging from
a story which has just come across the At.
%lantic, it would appear that there are coun.
ties in Western Kansas where every Sheriff
should be endowed with the iron nerve and
ready resource of Sir Charles DiIke's
friend. - u
Not many days since a man with his
Jaw swathed in flannel entered the bank
kept at Valley Falls by Messrs. Gehlart
aud Hicks. No one, with the exception Of
q solitary cashier. was inside the bank
when the disguised stranger entered it and
presented a genuiue oheque for ffty dollars
which he desired to have paid to him in
single dollar bills. While the cashier was
counting out the money the stranger asked
to be allowed to 60 behind the counter, and
st down by the stove, us he was suffering
from u raging tO0thaGle, and he h0ped
that the heat would asSuage the pain. The
cashier cOnIteOuSly aSSented, and the rob
Der passed into the interior OF the bank.
Scarcely had he got there before he pulled
ont a couple of revOlvers, and, present
ing them at the cashiers head, ordered him
.staightway to leave the building. On the
light of the cashier, the robber locked the
door, and proceeded to help himself to four