The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-24
Some arewsome "reminiscences.

THE hanging Of Schneider, " said Capt. A. W.
Barrett OF Los Angeles to a Washington star
representative at the Ebbitt, recalls 70 me the
lynching Of seven N en- at one time that / wit
messed near Fort Mason in Texas about twenty
years ago.
/ was then engaged in the railroad business
there had been for a long time disputes and
Ieuds among the cattle men Of Texas, and the
tteennE among the different factions ran very
hlgh STOCK stealing and murder we're Of fire.
quent occurrence. In those days the country
was very sparselY settled and Iawless- There
wa. was German who was engaged in buying cat
tie lie was suspected, whether justly or not 1
cannot say, OF running OF stock and rounding
thein up with bis own cattle. He was arrested,
tosether with six OF his cowboys, and brought
TO the jail at Fort Mason.
Some Of his enemies decided TO hang the
whole lot. They repaired TO the jail. broke in.
"hlch was not very difficult matter, and
mounting the unfortunate men upon horses
made for big tree about ~ miles from the
JAN. lt was night. A number If US were
slated IN the hotel at Fort Mason. The alarm
came that the men were being taken from the
jail TO BE- lynched. There was lively scramble
Tor horses. Once mounted the chase began.
Ile Iynching party hal good start. We sent
our mustangs over the prairie for all they were
worth. The lynching party made the tree some
time before US Throwing the ropes over a pro-
1eciiug limb they strung up the seven helpless
victims Lashing their horses from under them
they lett them dangling in &; air and dsap-
peared. One or two of the pursuing party, who
were mounted on fleet horses outstripped the
others aud cut down the swaying forms with
their bowie knives
1T was g grewsone sight, assure YOU to see
those seven bodies hanging from that tree Five
men were dead. They had been hanged so
hastily that the rope around one of the mems
neck mad not been securely fastened to the
ilmh and his toes touched the ground. He after
ward recovered, but went insane. The other
man with the rope hanging around his neck
broke away from US and ran four miles to an
adjoining ranch He, too, went insane Over
twenty men were afterWard shot on different
sides in the feud following this lynchug.
recall a particularly pathetic lynch
ing at Deadwood. II was in the flush
was overrun with thieves, gamblers
highway robbers and thugs There had been
great numoer of highway robberies and hold
ups ana also lot jumping One man was ar
rested for lot jumping Another young fellow,
mere boy was accused BY a barber Of rob
latter case. though in the alleged encounter the
barber had shot the young man through the
arm.
The vigiantes decided to hang the lot
jumper When they got 10 the ial they con
cluosd to string up the young man, whose
name, think, was Stewart l shall never for
get the sight. 1t was bitter cold night. The
young man had been so roughly handled while
being taken from the jail that his wounds had
broken out afresh, and the blooJ, streaming
down his arm and over his hand, froze on has
fingers. He begged pitifully to be allowed to
send one word to his mother who was in the
east. In the administration of SO called border
Justice men are apt TO be heartless
This was such a case. His entreaties were
ignored They were strung up side by side on a
rafter Of new addition Ia the Jail with
placards pinned to their bodies warning a num-
Der of hard characters in town, who were
named, to leave within tWenty-four hours or
share their fate"