Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-10-11
OMAHA'S LATEST LYNCHlNG.
Graphic Story Of the Vengeance Wrought
Upon n child's Assailant.
TBy telegraph 70 the Dispatch

OMAHA. NEE, October 10.-The city is
peaceful and quiet this morning. and be-
vond a few curious people around the city
Jail there is nothing 70 remind one OF the
scenes Of the wild excitement OF last
nisht. Joe Coe has been lynched for his
assault on O tive-y ear-old glrl, and the MOB
Is satisfied.
Early in the evening it became evident
that the CITY officials would shed no blood
ia defence OF their prisoner, and AS soon as
the mob realized this the fate OF the negro
was sealed. The first and second barriers
to the city Jail were soon passed and 1t dld
not take the crowd ong TO effect an en-
trance into the huge steel cage in which
the cells are located. There, wrapped in
blanket, wasthe wretch whomthe lynchers
sought. A howl of wild excitement was
sent up by the leaders. who called Tor
tools to cut their way into the cage. Yell
after yell of triumph went up from the out
side and soon sledges and cold-chisels were
IN the hands of those nearest the cage.
As the clang or blows rang through the
Jail and into the courtyard the crowd
kept up It's bowling. In the mean time the
police. under Chief Seavy, undertook TO
mass at the jail entrance. The crowd
surced up. picked up the police, and car
RED them to the edge Of the yard. There
they stayed. Then work went on inside
the cage. The negro begged and pleaded.
lie insisted that he was charged with bur.
Clary. g. you: we'll burglar you"
Ia response heprayed and cried and rolled
in terror. His cries for mercy were
answered by blows that brought his exc
cutioners nearer.
At this time tho door was open. Then
with one last yell of terror the negro was
seized BY the hands of men eager for his
blood and thrust through the corridor.
Hero men to identify him were called tor.
1t was determined to make DO mistake.
Soon pressed forward those who knew hum
and his doom was sealed. A lamb would
have Jared better amidst pack Of wolves.
Coe was not torn limb from limb. but he
got thousand curses and blow tor every
curse. There is q driveway fifty yards
long leading from the jail to the intersec-
ton Of Seventeenth and Harvey streets.
This is paved with granite, and over the
rough road the wreck was dragged by his
ruthless capturers. Since he had reached
the door he had not spoken word. and IN
oil probability was UNCONSCIOUS. by the
time the street was reached he was dead.
1t mattered not that life was extinct. A
rope was thrown over the trolley-wire OF
the electric line-it served to drag. the
doomed man from the earth. hundred
hands pulled and the remains were hung
high above all heads.
TIE LEADER AND SEVEN OF THE LyNcHEEs AR
REsIED.
OMAHA, NEB.. October 10.-Joseph News
hotter, who led the assault on tho county
jail last night which resulted In the
lynching of Joe Coe. the negro. has been
arrested. and will be charged with muir
der. the only Nebraska statute covering
lynching prescribing that as the charge.
4 MOB THREATENS TO ATTACK THE JAIL AND
LIBERATR THE PRISONERS.
OHlH.. NEB., October 10.-Seven men,
bers of the mob which lynched the negro
last night are under arrest, charged with
murder IN the first degree. County-At-
torney Mahoney has refused to allow the
release of the prisoners on bail, and by 2
Z. II. crowd surrounded the county
jsil and threatened that II the prisoners
were not given their liberty that the jail
The men under arrest are Ed. Neuschalter,
Patrick OBene, John Fritz. r. G. Bloom.
IL. IL. Brandeis, Ed. Fitzgerald, and Joseph
0Donchue.
Bloom is manager for s. p. Morse 4 Co.,
the largest dry goods company IN the city.
and ODonohuo is u captain of police.
O'Hene. who was delegate 10 the Demo-
cratic County Convention, was arrested
while the convention was III session.
County-Attorney Mahoney sent word
that the men would not DO released under
any circumstances. aud the crowd at once
began to lay plans for attacking the jail.
The crowd Is nowpretty quiet, but looks
ugly.
The MOB SATISFIED.
When the mob had gathered in front Of
the window where the crowd broke IN last
night, Jailer Harrigan appeared and an
nounced that none of the men wanted were
in the Jail and offered to escort q commit
tee OF ten to satisfy them that he was toll
ing the truth. The crowd accepted the
proposition and the committee reported
that the men were not there. This salts
fed the crowd and it dispersed. Five Of
the prisoners had been released on bail
and the remaining two had been spirited
ont OF the Jail and taken to Papillion for