Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-22

notice and with about eight men ] n
front and eight in the rear and four
men on either side of the negro and
deputies the procession proceeded to
the Calwood bridge over the Aux
vase.
Messrs. Buchanan and Buckner pro-
tested with the masked men and beg
ged them to take their prisoner on to
Fulton and let the law take its course.
A spoke sman answered: at is use
less to try to persuade us from this
thing. We have wives and daughters
to defend. W. mean business and
we will have the scoundrel. Resist
ance is useless and we don't want to
hurt anybody but the negro rapist and
the negro zoe WiH hare" And with
that they took him.
When they had reached about the
center of the bridge a halt was called
and the negro was dragged out.
About fifteen feet of rope was pro-
duced, one end tied around the ne
gro's neck, the other to q brace on
the bridge. Somebody said: slump, |
you black brute!" The bridge quiv-
cred and all raj silent.
1t was about 1 O'Clock this morning
when the negro was dragged from
between the deputies and ten minutes
later his worthless body was dangling
between heaven and earth.
The deputies, Messrs. Buchanan and
Buckner, arrived at Fulton and no.
tilted Sheriff Windsor and Coroner
Davis about 8 O'Clock this morning.
On leaving the st. Louis Jail Wednes-
day afternoon Divers said: "Good-
by, everybody. You will never see
me alive agin,' for sure, when l get
to Fulton l will be strung up. killed
the woman, but didn't intend to. It's
a lie that l ravished her, but it's no
use talking, for when they get me up
there atFulton l will be a dead niger.
| They wanted to string me up at once,
but the Sheriff was to slick for them
and got me to st. Louis. If | must
die, I'd rather it was in jail right here,
for they will make me die hard"
MR.. CAIN SATISFIED.
The Fulton Telegraph says: The
Telegraph has just seen MI. John w.
Cain, husband of the murdered
woman. He seems to be entirely sat
isfied, and says that he would only
like to have had a short talk with
Divers before he was lynched. He
asks that peace and order be restored
and that our citizens now resume their
peaceful v~ocations.
WILD SCENES IN FULTON.
FULTON, Mo-, August 16.-The town
is in a measure quiet to-day to what
it was yesterday, when everybody
was wild with excitement over the
lynching of Divers. The farmers have
all gone to their homes and compare
tive quiet reigns this morning.
The disappointed portion of the mob
affirm that but nine men composed
the lynching party and that they were
instructed by county officers to do the
work.
Some time after the lynching party
had successfully finished their work,
the mob, which had for days and
nights guarded every possible en-
trance to the town, became aware OF
the proceedings at the bridge and the
five or six hundred men who COM
posed the mob started with horses al
full speed for the scene. On arriving
at the bridge and learning that they
were two hours behind time, and learn
, ing also that only a very few men haG
composed the lynching party, they
= became Infatuated and their curses o
rage and disappointment were heart
on every hand. Rumors of their hav'
ing been betrayed by the county of
ficers, who had by previous arrange
: ments instructed the few who did TIT
3 hanging whereDivers might be taken
were soon afloat and the officers loud
@ ly condemned.
In full view of the courtroom where
3 the Circuit Court is now sitting, ant
4 within 25 yards of the office of ever,
2 county official and the rostrum of thu
q Circuit Judge, on n of the mail
thoroughfares of the town, the morti
. flying body, horrible in the extreme
O swung all of yesterday afternoon, Al
evidence of the vengeance of an out
ragged man and sympathizing fellow
q citizens.
At 2:15 p. m. a bowling mob of owe
Il 500 horsemen rode into town with tn
I body of the negro in a farm Wagon
They followed the principal street t
the Court House Square, where tn
cavalcade stopped. The covering wa
thrown off the wagon and fully
thousand people took turns in viewin
d the distorted features of the corpse.
The march was then again taken u
10 to the Fair Grounds in the souther
portion of the city. Here, at the re
}, quest of the murdered woman's hus
n band, the body was taken from th
Is wagon and swung to a telegraph poll
le Yesterday the Coroner impaneled
Jury and visited the scene of til
l. lynching. After examining the bod
a verdict, "death al the hands of PEI
sons unknown" was rendered. TIL
body was brought to Fulton at moo
Thursday by a mob of 200 men. The
then formed a procession and marche'
with the corpse, around the Cou
IN House, shouting "Let the law take j
tn course.n From there the mob marcel
ed to the old Fair Grounds, west
w town, where the body was suspends
from the limb of a tree and became
target for hundreds of bullets.
Half an hour later it was brougl
= back to town, another rope secure
and the end, after being thrown ov
the crosspiece of a telephone pole
- front of the Court House, was handt