Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-10-23
NEBRASKA MOB LAW.
4 NEGRO RAvIsHER HUNG BY AN
OMAHA mon.
Taken Prom Jail at Mid night aud
strung Up on the Public Thorough
fare-Execution OF Ed Neil, the MUIR
derer of the Jones Family.

OMAHA, Neb.. Oct. 10.-Joe Coe
alias George Smith, was lynchet
: at Ito o'clock this morning. HI
| was hanged to a wire supporting
the Harvey street motor wire in from
, of Boyd's theater.
About 10. 900 people were present
Coe was dead before he was tied up,
having beeg dragged by the neck from
the Jail and trampled under the fee
OF thousands Of men as he passed.
The report that was spread broad
cast throughout the city yesterday al
ternoon and was published in the even
ing papers regarding the alleged death
OF little 5-year-old Lizzie Yates, who
was brutality assaulted by a burly
negro named Joe Coe. alias George
Smith, proved to be without founda-
ton.
A reporter visited the homo of the
child's parents at 1712 North Eight
zenith street last evening ami found
the little one in very good spirits and
recovering from the fearful treatment
she had received Her father stated
that she was getting along better
than they expected she possibly could,
and he thought she would be herself
again in very few days as she was
able to get around.
The colored ravisher was taken from
the city Jail by the police about
o'clock and driven in the patrol wagon
to the home of the Yates family for the
purpose of identification. He was
dressed in different clothes from those
he wore Wednesday afternoon. but Mrs.
Yates was quite certain that he was the
negro who had been proving around
the place and represented himself as a
garbage man. She said that she would
not be willing to swear positively as to
his identity, but she firmly believed
that he was the brute who had as
saulted her child. The little girl was
still timid and very nervous from her
experience, and could not DE induced
TO look at stranger so nothing could
be obtained from her in the way Of
identifying her assailant.
| At twenty-five minutes past l 3 last
night the leaders OF the mob called to
the crowd to give them room to get out
of the window OF the Jail office. With
blood curdling yell the crowd gave
way for the leaders and the doomed
man. Several men sprang out OF the
window with the rope in their hands
others showed the half dead brute out
OF the window and then the most fear
ful work ever witnessed at the hands
of mob in Omaha was performed
amid the piercing yells OF thousands OF
desperate men.
The rope was graspcd by fully
hundred men ana they ran down the
declining roadway to the corner OF
Seventeenth and Harvey streets. The
black brute was dragged Dy the neck
all the way ana must have been nearly
dead before he had been dragged 100
feet. The MOB rushed upon him, kick
ing and jumping upon him as he was
jerked down over the rough pavement
his clothing being almost entirely torn
from his body, and the skin and flesh
bruised and bleeding in shocking
manner.
1t is ABOUT seventy yards from the Jail
window to the corner of the court house
square. This run OF death was made
in less time than it takes to tell it.
The officers struggled manfully to
save the doomed man, but they were
absolutely helpless in the midst of the
yelling, frenzied crowd OF determined
men.
The leaders in the rope brigade made
Tor telegraph pole at the southwest
corner or Harvey and Seventeenth, but
when one OF the lynchers had climbed
up the pole he found no projection to
throw the rope across. and he quickly
descended and LED the way to a pole
that stands diagonally across the street
directly north and across the street
from Boyd's theatre. Soon the rope
was thrown over telephone wires and
In The twinkling OF an eye the BODY of
the black villain was dangling in the
air as limp ana liieless. apparently. "a
rag. The muscles OF one arm
twitcned convulsively, but aside from
that not sign OF life appeared to be
left in the body.
Beneath the dangling body stood the |
moo. looking up at the OBJECT OF their
fearful revenge, their faces cleaning
IN the electric light ami their voices |
hlllng the air with the cries OF ven
Geance fully satisfied. Fully ten thou
SAND people were in the neigh borhood
OF the Jail when the mob assaulted the
structure.
Whilc the majority of the great
ai.airl Ii,
fully LOCO persons remained and com
pletely blocked the streets and side
walks near the dead man. Some one
standing on the pavement directly
under the corpse called for a speech.
Coe, the man VINO was lynched by
the moo was married. He had n wife
ana one child, who reside in the allev
petweed Eleventh and Twelfth streets.
in the rear OF the Wells, Fargo ex-
press Office. The little girl whom he
ravished is not dead. ana will recover
from her injuries.
While the participants in the hang
Ing>were men. hundreds OF women wit
messed the scenes from start TO finish.
But few OF them ventured upon the
court house grounds, out upon the
streets they were everywhere con-
'picuous. They stopped on the way
home from their shopping tours ana
places OF business ana apparently took
as much interest in the proceedings as
.he men. When the theaters closed
mother mass joined the crowd and
held their positions until the body was
tut down.