The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-15
SHOWN NO MERCY.
An Omaha Mob Breaks Into the Jail and
Takes . Colored Rapist from His Cell
The FIend Hanged.

Takes a Colored Rapist from His Cell
The FIend Hanged.
OMAHA, Neb., Oct 1.-THE Omaha
county Jail was surrounded Friday
night by a bowling mob of a thousand
men who declared they would lynch
Joe Coe, a negro who recently made
an attack upon Lizzie Yates, s years
old. 1t was reported that the child
was dead and this caused the outbreak.
Public sentiment has been wrought
up highly by the execution of Ed Neal
This tension was added to when the
report became current that Goes victim
had died. 1--WE will lynch the niger"
was soon heard on every side and
it was evident that before nightfall
the days event would culminate in
a tragedy. Night came on with an
on.inous quiet. There were few peo-
pie in the streets, and there was no in
timation of the trouble in sight. About
$50 o'clock there were confused sounds
of a trapping and hurrying along the
paved street toward the county jail,
and in a remarkably short time the
Jail was surrounded
A rush was made for the Harvey
street door of the jail. 1--WE will get
in here" shouted leader who sudden
ly appeared.
"Stopv said Capt Cormack who pre-
sented a revolver The leader halted.
"What do You want?" asked the cap
tain.
I'VE want that - negro" was the
reply, land we will get him. Get out
of the way"
"If you take step this way I'll kill
you," said the captain, as he showed the
pistol under the spokesnnan's nose.
Persuasively the little round hole in
the barrel, backed by true officers
iron nerve, did the work and
the crowd abandoned the Har-
ney street door. Then sledges
were brought and the east door was
assailed. This was built Of strong
steel lattice. Once inside four more
steel lattice doors must be broken
through. This seemingly impenetra-
BILE wall stood between the crowd OF
angry men who having tasted blood
thirsted for more. Solid blows rang
on the doors. 1t was useless. No sledge
would tell against that door.
About block away was the power
house of the cable street railway COM
pany. Near it were huge piles of rails
and long, heavy bars of steel. In a
minute some of these were borne by
sturdy hands up the hill. While this
was being done the telephone wires
had been cut and there was no COM
munication with the Jail. The steel raj
changed against the steel door. The
latter yielded slightly. A mighty yell
went up from the maddened men. and
again and again the battering ram was
hurled against the door Steel cannot
stand everything, and in five minutes
the door was open. Then there was q
short parley and the second door was
assailed. While all this was going or
Omaha's police force of ninety
men was gathered, but concentra
ton was impossible. The officers
were lost in the crowd. Some
one suggested that the fire de
! partment be called out and the hos.
turned on. But it was not that kind o
| a mob The firemen came and lait
their hose. and the crowd. simply car
ried away the lines and drove the fire
men away.
1t did not take the crowd long afte
| the second door was passed to effec
an entrance to the huge steel cage il
which the cells are located. There
wrapped in a blanket, covered tn
trembling wretch for whom tn
lynchers sought.
In the meantime the police, unde
Chief Seavy, undertook to mass at th'
Jail entrance. The crowd surged up
picked up the police and carried then
to the edge of the yard. There the!
staid. Then the work went on.
Inside the cage the negro begged AM
pleaded. He prayed and cried ant
rolled on the floor in terror. Hi
shrieks for mercy were an 'wered wit
blows that brought his executicner
nearer. At this time the doorwas open
Then with one last yell of terror tn
negro was seized by the hands Of me
eager for his blood and thrust throug
the corridor. Here men to ideptif
him were called for. 1t was deter
mined to make no mistake, So O
pressed those who knew him and hi
doom was sealed. A lamb would hav
Jared better amidst pack of wolves
Coe was not torn limb from limb, bu
he got thousand curses and bloy
for every curse.
There is driveway so yards loa
leading from the Jail to the intersee
ton of Seventeenth and Harney streets
This is paved with g ante. Over thi
rough road the wretch was dragged b.
his ruthless captors. After he reache
the door he did not speak a word. an
in all probability was unconscious. b
the time the street was reached h
was dead. 1t mattered not that lii
was extinct A rope was thrown owe
trolley wire of the electric line.
had served to drag the doomed ma
from his c,l. Then a hundred hanG
pulled and hundred men surged bacl
and high above the street directly
front of Boyds theater swung the lif'
less corpse of Omaha's fend.
Last Wednesday afternoon youn
Coe went to the house of Mr.. Yates g
| Oh CIIdAA uhO, ShO AAotnNA ouPROcS'
went away; but instead he returne'
and picking up the little girl, who W.
playing in the yard, carried her to
barn a short distance away and accou
plished his purpose. He was arrest<
that night and was bound over to tt
district court for trial. The little gi
, was not seriously injured and her ult
mate recovery is anticipated.
Want Her to Resign.
KANSAS CITY. Kan. Oct 10.--Tl
town of Kiowa, Kan, is all in q tn
moil, the people being in open r
! volt against the woman mayo
Mrs. Paxton. They have pei
toned her to resign. The busine
men, who depend for much of the
trade on the cattlemen, are opposed
prohibition, and Mrs. Paxton has ke
up q continual war on the Equ
5 Joints" and recently sent out a lot
+ special deputy city marshals to destr'
: all liquor and nail up the doors Th'
E followed the petition asking Mrs Pa
I ton to resign. Her husbands name
attached to it. .-:
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Hold I)avIi1ht Robbers.