The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-05
HOW 1T FEELS TO BE LYNoHsD.
A Man Who Was Twice Strung Up by
a Mob Tells about 1t.

a MOD Tells bout 1t.
From the Seattle Post TnteIlioencer.
Arthur Archunbault, the man who was
twice strung up to the limb of a tree at
O'Clock on Friday morning by mob at
Gilman in an attempt to make him confess
to plot TO fire the Gilman hotel was before
Justice Neagle yesterday on a charge of
attempted arson and was discharged.
There was absolutely no evidence tending
to show that Archunbault had attempted to
set fire TO the hotel.
Archunbault is about % years old. He is
quite rudy of complexion, and withal
"hard-lookiug" citizen. His story of the
affair is that late on Thursday night he was
arrested by deputy sheriff and was taken
to a room he had engaged for himself in
Davis lodging house and was there held a
prisoner. He was a stranger in the place
and, as he refused to tell bis business, the
miners were all against him. One of the
miners, who was deputized as an officer,
held him on the bed in his room while a
crowd of twenty or more angry men
blocked the room and the hall and de-
manded a confession of him. He was OBJ
durate, and insisted that he knew nothing
about any attempted arson.
II don't know how long it was after
ward, but / suddenly felt singing pains in
my head, and the pain shot down my body.
l could hear voices. l thought I was dead,
but / didn't know where l was. couldn't
think. and would not open my eyes. Then
some one struck my face with something
It was my black hat. I saw a whole lot of
men, and my grip was on the foot of the
bed. / was in my own room in the Davis
house, and the miners were drunken than
before. l was lying down and man was
sitting on my legs.
"T6en they let me down. One man said:
Ibid Hughes tell you to set fire to the
buildingg and / said 'Yes;' then remember
ing that did not know Hughes, said No. ;
That made them mad, and they put me up
again. felt my head jerked back. and the
pain was awful. | knew was not stand
ing, but swinging. 1t was so dark l thought
| was dead and IN another world. wasn't
in pain then.
Zone fellow had bowie knife. and
wanted to stick it into me-" said Archun-
bault, land another man had a revolver
and was going to shoot me, but the man
with the dirk wanted first whack at me.
Finally the other men said:
LETS take him out and hang him up
1.-THE crowd all halloed, and they caught
hold of me from all sides, pulled me down
the stairs and into the street. Several men
ran to get rope and the rest pulled me to a
tree. 1t was pitch dark. l was too scared
to fight. One fellow tied a knot in the rope.
He didn't do it good, or l wouldn't have
been here to tell tie tale. They threw the
other end over limb of a tree, and, putting
the moose over my head, ran me up They
failed to tie my hands. and l grabbed the
rope. The motion saved me broken neck
One OF the miners struck my hands with
something that forced me to let go. The
rope tightened around my neck and out off
my wind. l could feel the rope cutting into
the flesh. and it smarted. My eyes felt
funny. thought they were out on my
cheeks. Ifelt-O, 1 felt like hell"
While telling the story Archunbault
showed the tell-tale blistered and red marks
about his neck. 1.-THE first time the rope
caught under my chin and made this upper
mark. The knot came under the left side
of my jaw. This placs is where it rubbed
she flesh of when the rope slipped together.
The second time it caught lower down.
right across my Adams apple. and made
the lower and heavier mark. l don't know
where the knot was, but it must have been
right here where you see this spot where the
skin is rubbed of, and the flesh twisted up.
My neck's awful sore-it hurts me to turn
nv head