The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-22

A RaViSh0T Taken From Before the
Justice and Hanged.

The Balcony in Front of the Build
ing Utilized as a Gibbet-The Rope
Breaks After the Brute Had Been
Hanging 10 Minutes and He Tum-
bles to the Ground a Corpse.
Ottumwa, Ia, Nov 21-An excited and
angry mob hung Fred Gustavason to the
stair railing of Justice Truitts court
room at 2:30 0, clock this afternoon.
Gustavson feloniouslyi assaulted the A.
year-old girl of Jones Sax about 10 o'clock
last night. The brute was arrested
shortly after committing the crime and
lodged in Jail. This morning he
was taken to the Sax house
and positively identified by the
little girl and companion who was en-
ticed to room together with the little
Sax girl, but was permitted to leave af-
ter getting inside the room. Gustavason
kept the little Sax child and succeeded in
his purpose He then turned the little
girl out, and with much difficulty, she
succeeded in reaching home, and related
her horrible experience to her parents.
THE BRUTE IN A CELL.
Her father went to police headquarters,
and soon Capt. Harmon had Gustavason
behind the bars of the county Jail. At 3
o'clock to-day GuStaVasOn was taken to
Justice TRUTHS Office for arraignment.
The news that the man was in Justice
| Truitt'S court spread with wonderful
| rapidity, and in less than twenty minutes
| crowd of perhaps l 900 was Surging
around the stairway leading to the court
room, trying to get at the prisoner. The
mother of the little glrl succeeded in get
ting to the top of the stairs, and to the
| platform in front of the court room swung
| a rope, and together with her aged father
appealed to the crowd below to hang
| Gustavason. Sheriff Mcintyre and Mayor
Force appealed to the crowd for peace
and silence, but all in vain.
THE LYNCHING.
The mob forced its way into the court
room, overwhelming the officers by sheer
weight of numbers. The leader seized
the rope from the hands of Mrs. Sax and
| as the court attaches were powerless to
| interfere placed it about Gustavasou's s
neck in twinkling. With a yell
of rage the rope was seized
| by hundred hands and the
quaking wretch was dragged from his
chair across the floor to the door, where
he was lifted on the railing until the rope
had been made secure, when he was let
go. He hung suspended above the pave
ment on the principal street for fully ten
minutes, the contortiohs of his body being
exceedingly revolving.
THE ROPE BREAKS.
! Suddenly the rope parted and the body
| dropped to the street below, and a rush
was made for his possession. The police
were the first to reach the body, and
hastily throwing it into farmer
wagon standing near by, drove rapidly to
| tho i1il fOl1nyyNH hxr tho rpnh Tho lVDpb-
ers again demanded the body Of Gustava-
son, nor would they desist when told
| that the man was dead. A truce
was patched up by the appointment
of a committee, who examined the body,
and pronounced life extinct. The mob
then quickly and quietly dispersed, and
the city is now as quiet as though no
thought of the terrible affair of the after
noon had ever entered the minds of any
citizen of the place. The little girl re-
mains in a pEecarious condition, with the
| chances of life greatly against her.