San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-04-08

ington, Ill, when n young man was
arrested for vagrancy and held Oh sus-
picion cf being a horse-thief wanted at
Jacksonville. The sheriff, who was u
kind hearted man, allowed the prison
ers to occupy 4 large cell during the dav,
where they might have the doubtful
benefit Of each others company. When
evening came they were locked mp in
their own cells. The turnkey took this
young man to his cell and stopped over
to unlock the door. when the prisoner
sliced the revolver that protruded from
the hip pocket of the turnkey and shot
the turnkey dead.
Before he could make even an at
tempt to escape the sheriff 2as uRep
him and locked him up II ais cell.
The news that poor Teddy. the turn
key, was murdered. soon spread about
the city, and an excited throng gath
cred about the old Jail. The crowd
kept growing with every minute and
so did the excitement. Some of the
most exciteable could be heard to ex.
claim: Hang himl" Lynch himr'
''Burn himr' Break down the
doors, etc. Noticed that those who
did the most yelling and demanded his
life in the fiercest language were the
last TO take hand at breaking into
the Jail
The excitement grew SO intense that
all that was needed to begin in the
work of breaking down the doors was q
leader. They had not long to wait, foI
soon a thicl-set man jostled me, ex,
claiming: LET me through here" In
less than minute after the window.
on that side were shattered to atom,
and some of the bars were wrenched
off, but the sheriff kept the mob at bay,
A large log was brought and the door,
We're battered in, but the faithful
sheriff and his deputies guarded tn,
doors with drawn revolvers. Not caring
to try and force their way in the face Of
half dozen revolvers, some of ths
mob ran to the C. & A. shops, nearly 4
mile away, and returned with an iror
rail They brought it TO bear on tn,
brick walls and soon succded in pound
ing hole through the bricks, but
could not get through the boiler-iror
with which the wall was lined. Al
last, after scuffiing with the sheriff fol
over an hour. some Of the mob began
to throw stones and bricks at tn,
sheriff In the meantime an alarm
was sent TO the fire department and
they responded promptly The err
went up that they were going to turn
n stream on the mob, but dozen meE
seized the hose and threatened to cut
it into thousand pieces if they did mo-
at once reel up and leave The fremeI
were powerless in the hands of the
mob and had to do as they were told
When the mob began to throw brick
and stones at the sheriff he could ne
longer resist, and, stepping aside, the
mob stepped into the jail They de
manded the keys to the murderer S cell
but the sheriff had concealed them
Sledge hammers were quickly brought
and soon we could hear the blows tina,
were rained upon the cell door, thu
wretched man covering in corner
listening to the blows that were sound
ing his death lSnelL But he had not
long to suffer TINS. for the door wal
soon battered down
The shivering wretch was seized and
dragged into the street The mob wa.
erazed with excitement and kept up &
continual howl of Hang himip burr
him aliver' and many other blood
thirsty expressions. ! could not help 4
feeling Of pity for the poor soul. There
was none to offer one word in his be
half indeed. it would have been as
much as ones life was worth to have
done so. stood on the street not fan
from the jail, and it happened that the
unhappy wretch was dragged within
six feet of me. have often heard OF
the hair standing on end, but never saw
it until then Every hair stood up as
straight as though it was made of wire.
His face was white with horror and
filed with such look of awful despair
that my heart turned sick with pity.
He was dragged to tree.a rope placed
around his neck and thrown over a
projecting limo.
..Gentlemen. he said, Il have a
mother
80 had the man you murdered" was
the reply.
4wont you give me time to pray2"
he asked.
The man you shot had no time to
pray" he was told.