The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-27
lie Murder of the Texas Bank
Cashier Avenged
BY A MOB AT WICHITA FALLS.
iae hid Is without Fear and pies
Cursing His Executioners.
Hardihocd OF "a Missouri Boy with q
Rope Around His Neck HIS Com-
pstnion Presents an isisinal ~r~cta-
Gle, Begging for Ills Life and
Scarcely Able to stand.

Fort Worth. Tex. Feb. n -Fcs.er .er.w-
fsFa snA The hld. who rAidea tie city
Ne1icnai bank of Wichita Fails. TEX
Yesterday afternoon. killing Cashier Frank
Dorsey, wcunding B0okkeeper T.. Plans-
ford and securing see. were sarroan led
last night nine miles from town. IN a
titiA keg. and surrendered whsn all hopa
was gone, They were takea to NHohiiA
Fails. where state rangers guarded theus
ali uight
Dallas. Tex. Feb. ss.-A special to this
News from Wichita Falls. Tex. says; Ar
So Q clock tonight a mob Of several thou
sand persons attacked the Jail where Fo*-
ter Crawford and The Kid were confined.
After show Of resistance on the part oe
the authorities the mob battered in tho
jail doors and forcialy look possession OF
the prisoners. Tire two men We're taken
20 the bank which they attempted TO rob
yesterday and an improvised sealfold was
erected. The first Impulse OF the half
crazed mob was 10 burn the prisoners.
bat calmeT counsel prevailed. Yelis OF
Hang the Kid nrst" went up; then 9TH
ers. No. hang the oldest first
The Kid refused 90 say word, anf
those having him tu charge yanked him
onte the box The scene was "A weird ONE
He had on high-heeled boots. black parHis
and deep red flannel shirt. which added
a gruesome hriillancy 10 the scene. In a
a man who some say looked like the man
whose horses had been taken yesterday
Skinned up telegraph pole and fixed the
end of the rope across the crosshar. MI
this tine The Kid was teeTing the crowd.
laughing and cuFsing. Tie never auivered.
tie was asked 20 say what he wanted and
was told he would be given hearing.
He said: by God. that's all right. IL
you are impatient swing me up now.
amt afraid to die; not d-n bit of IL.
Pull the rope. by God"
A voice in the audience cried: Yours
going to die now. Tell Us your name"
The KID responded: Il don't give a
d-n II do. It's Younger Lewis. and my
father and mother reside in Neosho. Me-"
ANY messageT' from voice IN tbs
crowd.
well. tell my father I was not scared
a bit: that died like "a nervy man."
Anything for your motherg
enc: not q word She VIII see the mes
sage 10 the old man. Say. you fellows 20
and look in that dugeut. and you VIII find
Sleooa there"
the last moment called himself. continued
chatting and laughing with the crowd. pok-
ing fun at them and cursins for a moment,
ana th.r some one yelled. Time fs vt"
The kid said: II am 20 years OF age.
am dead game. and ready TO die: go
ahead"
In an instant he was pulled up above ths
throng He never auivered or kicked. He
lust went up in the air. and there he 10
hanging now lie was the coolest man in
the crowd.
All 4bs while Crawford was a spectator
of the scene He psgan TO weaken. and
confessed giving some vakgalfe informa-
tion. He placed the responsibility for tho
crime or .The Kid. The mob showed him
up TO the improvised platform. next 10
fha bank he attempted TO rob. and f1s
head was about on a level with the dang
ling feet of his companion. lie asked TOR
Cant Burnett. The latter was n spectator
IN tna crowd He went 10 Crawford. END
had a long talk Crawford had worked on
Burnetts ranch for years, and was a
trusted man. lie began stealing his en-
Movers stock. however. and assocaaSing
with territory outlaws. and the two 81 IT.
ed company. Crawford confessed to the
robbery Of yesterday burt denied the muir
der He was a small man, poorly clad.
wtth red face and short-cltpped black
raustache.
when they began TO look for a second
rope he begged for whisky. II was given
10 him He talked and then begged for
more. He again addressed the crowd I'm
comanche. English and Spanish. Those
who understood him say his utteranees
we're incoherent.
Tho rope soon arrived. and IL Was put
about his neck. lie fell forward, either
in a faint or from the effects Of the liquor
he had drunk He was soon strung up
along with his eompanicA Azd their bodies
still dangle In midair.