Omaha daily bee., 1893-06-04
HANGED BH AN ANGRY MOB,
Fate of the Negro Assaiiant OF Two Whit
Women.


Women.
DECATUR, ILL.,, June 3.-The mob which
gathered yesterday on the arrival hero Of
the negro captured near Sullivan, Ill,
charged wit hasaulting Mrs West and Mrs.
Hub Dill last Monday near Mount Zion,
forced Its way into Jail at 8 o'clock this
morning, took the ravisher out, and lynched
him. No resistance was made to the mob
Owing to the threats of lynching earlier
in the day an extra police fore of twelve
men had been put inside the jail and another
force outside. A scout sent out to Mount
Zior early in the night reported everything
quiet and fears of trouble had been about
given up, though 500 curious people stood
around the Jail all night, unwilling to miss the
chance of a sensation. About 3 o'clock
twenty-five armed men marched to tho Jail
in a solid body and demanded admission.
This was refused aud the wooden outside
door was at once battered down with sledge
hammers, while the crowd looked on without
protest.
Once inside the lynchers demanded the
keys, which the guards declared they did not
have. The lynchers at once set to work on
the iron door with a cold chisel and opened
it in twenty minutes. Then came the steel
uOOT, WHICH reSlSbtu auOJncr twenty InluuJeS.
Had Things Their own Way.
Meantime q great crowd of citizens had
gathered outside and looked on. The city
marshal appeared, forced his way inside,
but was kicked IN the stomach by the lynch
ers and hustled out, after which he also sub
sided.
Finally the lynchers reached the cell of
the negro, whose name was Sage Bush.
They put a leather strap around his
neck and took him to telegraph post
under the glare of an electric light and gave
him ten minutes to pray.
Then they swung him up and dropped him
and finally put him on the top of hack, tied
the strap to the cross arm of the post and
drove the hack from under him. He was
pronounced dead in two minutes by doctors
who appeared on the scene and noted the
ebbng of the wretch's life. He protested
his innocence to the last.
Then the Mob Went Homo.
AS soon as his death was assured the
Mount Zion mob left for home. The men
wore no masks and made no attempt to con-
ceal their identity. Among the number
we're: William West, husband of the
woman outraged by the negro Tuesday,
and {tolla Dill, brother Of the woman out
ragged Monday. From all the circumstances
it seems measurably certain that Bush was
guilty of both assaults. The most remark
able feature of the whole affair seems to be
| that twenty-five men could march into a
| town of over 2O, 900 inha bitants, and, without
| even show of resistance, batter down the
| doors of the jail and hang human being.
| There was much indigna tion among the
| better class of citizens when they got up this
| morning and found the negro Bush had been
| hung on one of the principal streets. Much
| more Indignation was aroused when it was
discovered that the undertaken had placed
| the body on exhibition in his show window.
| He was soon compelled to remove 1t. This
| afternoon it was taken out and buried at the
| poor farm.
This afternoon States Attorney Mills re-
! ceived q message from Governor Altgeld and
| went to Springfield for a conference which
| preceded the proclamation from the gov
ernor as mentioned in the Springfield dis.
| patch. A young colored attorney has issued
a call for an Indignation meeting of colored
! citizens Monday night.