The morning news., 1891-10-11
ONAHA'S LYNCHING BEE.
NC SERIOUS EFFORT MADE BY THE
POLICE TO BALK TIE MOB.

When the Bluecoats Appeared the
Crowd Simply Hustled Them Out OF
the Way-fhe Prisoner q Picture OF
Abiect Terror While the Aven gers
We're Bsttaring Down the Bars OF
His Cell-Seven of the R'ngleaders in
Je1-Another Alta OK Imminent.
OMAHA, NEB., Oct. 1.-THE city was
nesceful and quiet this morning. and be-
vond few dozen curious people around the
city Jail there was nothing to remind one of
the scenes Of Wild excitement last night.
Ice Coe was lynched for outragipga 5-year-
old girl, and the mob is satisfied Early in
the evening it became evident that the
city officials would shed no
blood in the defense 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
we're soon passed, and it did not take the
crowd long TO effect an entrance to the
huge steel cage in which the cells are
located There, wrapped in blanket, cow.
cred the trembling wretch for whom the
lynchers sought.
A HOWL OF EMULATION.
A howl of wild exultation was sent up by
the leaders, who called for tools to cut their
way into the cage. Yell after yell of tri-
umph vent up from the outside, and soon
sledges and cold cniselS were in the hands
of those nearest to the cage. AS the claug
of the blows rang through the jail into the
courtyard the crowd kept up its bowling.
In the meantime the police under
Chief Seavy undertook to mass at
the jail entrance. The crowd surged
up, picked up the police and carried them
to the edge of the yard. There they stayed.
Then the work went on. Inside the cage
the negro begged and pleaded He insisted
that he was charged wish burglary. e.
you" came the response. He prayed and
cried and rolled on the floor in terror. His
Shrleks for mercy were answered by blows
that brought his executioners nearer.
IN THE HANDS OF THE MOB.
At last the door was open. Then, with
one last yell of terror, the negro was seized
by the hands of men eager for bis blood and
thrust through the corridor. Here men TO
IDENTIFY him were called for. 1t was deter
mined to make no mistake. Those who
knew him pressed forward, and his doom
was sealed. A lamb would have Jared bet
ter amidst q pack of wolves. Coe was not
tOrn limb from limb. but he got thousand
curses, and blows for every curse There is
adrlveway 100 yards long leading from
The jail to the intersection of Seventeenth
and Harney streets. This is paved with
granite. Over this rough road the wretch
was dragged by his ruthless captors. Since
be had reached the door ne had not spoken
sword and in all probability was uncon-
'cious, and 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 tho electric line. It had
served to drag the doomed man from his
cell. Then hundred hands pulled and a
hundred men surged back, and high above
the street, directly in front of the beautiful
new Birds theatre, swung the lifeless corpse
Of Omeha's latest rape fiend.
Joseph Newshoffer, who led the assault on
the jail. has been arrested and will be
charged with murder, the only Nebraska
statute covering a lynching prescribing
that as the charge.
UNDER ARREST.
OMAHA, NEB., Oct. 10, II P M-Seven
members of the mob which lynched the
negro rapist last night are under arrest,
charged with murder in the first degree.
County Attorney Mahoney refused to allow
me release OF the prisoners on bail,
and By O'Clock tonight large
crowd surrounded the county jail and
threatened that if the prisoners were not
\ gwen their liberty the jail would be at
lacked and the men liberated, The men
under arrest are Ed Neuschalfer, Patrick
0aeine, John Fritz. r. G.. Bloom, Fl. II.
bfandls, Ed Fitzgerald and Joseph O'Don~
Chus. Bloom is manager for s. P. Morse &
20, the largest dry goods company in the
City! and O'Donohue is q captain of police.
oleae was delegate to the democratic
county convention and was arrested while
que convention was in session. County At
.oIhey Mahoney sent word that the men
"ould not be released under any circum-
ssances and the crowd at once began to
.ay plans for attacking the jail. The crowd
"o" pretty quiet and looks ugly.
NOT IN THE JAIL.
Al, "nsn the mob had gathered in front of
sue WINDOW where the crowd broke in last
nigne Jsiler Harrigan appeared and an
nounceo that none of the men wanted were
3 le s 'ne jail and, offered to escort committee
;n =, zen TO satisfy them that he was tell
ans Vhe truth. The crowd accepted TIE
j pLopoSlton and the committee reported
th thae ene men were not there. This satisfied
sne crowd and it dispersed. Five OF the
prisoners had been released on bail and the
iomialning iei TWO had been spirited out of the
'AiA ana taken to Papillon for safety.