The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-11
|E CoRYELL MOB.
Ms Murder One Of the
| FouIeSt Grimes.
taed TO Ills Execution From the Pres.
ence OF Il Sick Vile.

NIB atesville, April lo.-The peo-
|H of this county a,e terribly
'11St k ed up over the assassination by
|sA lob of Ed. Cash, as briefly cut
Med in my dispatch OF yesltrday.
lEggSrhis crime, atrocious at best, was
f4x9 dered doubly so by the fact that
(l victim was dragged from the
~ " Sheence Of his wife, " no Was very
fH and almost in ler presence
WI ged and shot to death.
sS8The only clue to the perpetrators
Sglthe crime is furnished by state
mt which Cash recently made TO
wv county attorney. He said certain
I'm were accusing him of fence.
kting, and had threatened his life.
MILES, his assassination grew out
2fFtt at, no one, except the perpetra
WIS, knows the cause.
B XXX lash vas at bis home with his
l3fe, who was very i'll, and DR..
NINTH who was attending her
Rhen the mob, consisting of ahoat
m men, arrived, Dir. Smith was
iV|cIm PEELED to 90 into another room
Md go to bed.
l5;,sS1sT men Cash, who had retired, vas
'dAgged out of bed aud, in spite of
Tie cries and entreatles of his wife,
SStas hurried off 10 his execution.
.Go brutal indeed, were the inhumsn
Mates wLo composed the mob of
'i6nrderers that they threatened the
HE of the sick woman, whose
6Atural feelings prompted her TO
splead for the life Of her hus band.
AFTER leaving the house the path
s,1 the place of execution was very
8ort. A convenient tree was soan
g. Ached, and, throwing one end of the
JSpe over limb, the other having
Ter looped about the victims neck,
H. was swiftly drawn up, to strangle
III death.
INTO stand by and watch the
fanglipg process was, however,
no inactive an entertainment for
ome of the bloodthirsty vlllains,
4 Nd so some twenty five bullets We're
We'd into the @rithing body Of their
Victim. This all took place but q
a1ew yards from the house whore the
NJ distracted wife lay, in full hearing
XII the foul proceedings by which
snhe was rendered a widow.
l When word Of the assassination
41eached this city the excitement was
syendered intense, and such details
~ have BEEN brought in since form
Utmost the sole theme for c3nversa
Mon on the streets, and wherever
%1Olks cong1egate.
Nh The officers are doing all they can
10 ferret out the murderers, and ars
sl6acked up in their work by tht
8trongest sentiment of an outraged
ApeopIe.
|M Governor Hogg has been commu
mlcated with, and it is earnestly
)SAoped that he will offer heavy re-
21 ard for the arrest of the perpetra
S1prs.
R Coryell county was, in the past
Aa4ll too used to astassinaticns, anc
|gae law abiding people had fondly
|SA oped that the spirit of lawlessnes.
IN hlch so long disgraced then
Mn lad been stamped out. This recur
Sxence to old-time lawlessness hal
EIs2 roused them almost to desperation,
S3end they will never rest until the
MI Mn : sassins are brought to justice.
VIM Mrs. Cash is a very beautiful
Dung woman, who had been mar
med but year. She was expected
ssto give birth to child very soon, an'
she terrible shock of her husband
'5@s9 fearful death has rendered her con
Milton such that her life is des
ssPalred of, and news of her death i
a SSn omentarily expected.
NH HE BLOOD is the source c
1tt. H.. n,