The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-11
THE LYNCHERS' TURN
The Leader Of the Omaha Mob
Placed Under Arrest
THREATS TO PULLDOWN THEJAIL
Seven Men Were Apprehended-SomeB ailed
Out, Some Rem0ved-Chsrged with MUIR
der in the First Degree.

OMAHA, Neb., Oct 1O.-TSpeciaI telegram
TO The HERALD. Omaha is convulsed with
excitement. The legal execution of Neal,
the double murderer of the Joneses, started
the riot. The report that the five-year-old
Lizzie Yates, the victim of negro Goes
lust, had died, caused the whole city to rise
in the evening and almost tear the prisoner
limb from limp. When morning dawned,
though, the mob had dispersed. Knots of
men remained and the general sentiment
was to lynch every murderer in Omaha.
Word was sent to the sheriff that to- night
the mob would return for Dan Piece (who
recently cholled to death Fannie Tate, a
woman of the town. and Trumptor Dixon,
confined in jail for numbering his COM
panion recently at Fort Niobara, Neb AS
the murmurings became fercer the police
formed, and an attempt was made to take
the prisoners away. Appearances were
ominious and TO prevent them being taken
from the. police, they were dressed in
female attire and secretly taken to the pen
itentiary at Lincoln. Then an effort was
made TO assert the civil authority. Sud
denly it developed that the child
was not dead as reported. The mat
De~1UlB SERIOUS anu ARRANGEMENTS
sgere made to arrest the leading members
of the mob. Joseph NEWSLETTER, the leader
of the attack on the jail, was arrested.
NEWSLETTER will stand charged with muir
der tor his part in the lynching, if County
Attorney Mahoney carries out his iatention
TO file as information.
This afternoon NEWSLETTER was put into
the city jail. The county attorney is bound
to MAKE test case, apparently, for no
other arrests have been made, although the
police were instructed last night by Chief
Seavy TO get as many names as possible of
any persons participating in the disturb
ance. NEWSLETTER was the man who led in
the assault on the steel cage in which Coe
was confined and the case is therefore re-
garded by the authorities as a pretty square
one to ascertain what the law can do ana
what public sentiment will or will not sus-
tain.
When he began his assault on the cage
NEWSLETTER threw OFF his coat and hat.
When he looked for them as he was leaving
the Jail he found the police had seized them
and taken letters bearing his address from
the pocket. NEWSLETTER did not go nearer
the scene OF the lynching than the vail at
the court house grounds, about Xty feet
away. He was coatless and hatless and
was easily spotted The prisoner came
yesterday from Rising City, where he
owns newspaper. TO this city in search of
VI.
He is powerful young German. There is
a strong sentiment toward seeing that he
is supplied with a competent attorney and
given the moral and financial help in his
defense of the people who took part IN the
lyncaing. Under the law of Nebraska any
man who took part in the lynching was
guilty of murder in the first degree and
punishable by hanging.
The mob was composed of the best citi
zens, and while the affair is deprecated
there is a determination to prevent the
leaders suffering from the affair Already
there are murmurings aud assertions that
# the leader Is not released before night
he will be rescued by force. The police
are said to be preparing warrants by the
wholesale for the lyncners. Already u en-
bers of the mob are being jailed hourly
without bail.
Sheriff Boyd this morning was very
downcast over what had taken place. He
ha heard wild rumors tina: mob intended
raiding the jail but regarded them as cow
srds. He had taken precautions and had
ordered the man placed in the strongest cell.
Had he expected an attack he would have
sworn in fifty deputies and had them on
duty In speaking of his abduction the
sheriff stated that he went to the north
door Of the jail Cor the purpose of ouellng
the mop but as soon as the
door was opened he was seized by the arms
and legs, overpowered and hustled to the
high school grounds, where he was kept
until the man had been hanged high in the
air. His capture and detention was com
plete, as after reaching the quiet of the
high school grounds they next placed him
on his back and sat upon his arms and legs
The sheriff p eaded for mis- liberty, but was
told to keep quiet at the point of his life
That il was a preconceiyed plan the sheriff
has but little doubt, as after his capture
messengers arrived every minute during
l.
formed of the progress being made at the
Jail. He thinks that if a shot had been
fired into the mob while the excitement
was at its height, it would have precipi-
tated the bloodiest riot on record.
County Attorney Mahoney said that he
would advise the county commissioners to
offer reward for the arrest and conviction
of the leaders The county and city Off
GERS thought that if a squad of police
had been present there would have been no
trouble.
Seven members of the mob are under ar
rest, charged with murder in the first de-
gree County Attorney Mahoney refused
10 allow the prisoners bail, and by pm. a
large crowd surrounded the county Jail
and threatened if the prisoners were not
given their liberty the Jail would be attacked
and the men liberated. The men under
arrest are Ed. NEWSLETTER, Patrick
O'Herne, John Fritz, Il. @. Bloom, II. H.
BrandleS, Ed. t1tZgerald and john Odono-
hue. The county attorney sent word the
men were not to be released under any cir
cumstanceS, and the crowd at once began
20 lay plans for attacking the jail. When
the mob gathered in front of the Jail Tailor
Harrigan appeared and announced none of
the men wanted were there, offering to es-
cort committee of ten through tue build
ing. The crowd accepted the proposition
and the committee reported the men gone.
Five of the prisoners had been released on
bail and other two taken to the PapiIlion.