Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-03-04
TWO THUGS LYNCHED
Sayers of the Wichita Falls Bank
Clerk Were Hanged.
THE " KID" DIED GAME
If You Are Impatient, Swing Ne IT
Now; 1 Amt Afraid 10 Die"
lie SAID.

Dallas, Texas, Feb. ga special to
the News from Wichita Falls, Texas,
says:
"At $50 tonight a mob of several
thousand persons attacked the Jail here
where Foster Crawford and The Kid
who were captured today, were confined.
After a show of resistance on the part
of the authorities the mob battered In
the Jail doors and forcibly took pos
session of the prisoners. The two men
were taken to the bank which they
attempted to rob yesterday and an i'm
provised scaffold was erected. The first
impulse of the half crazed mob was to
burn the prisoners, but calmer counsel
prevailed.
"Yells of Hang the Kid first went up.
Then others, No, hang the oldest first
The Kid refused to say a word and
those having him in charge yanked him
onto the board. The scene was a wierd
one. He had on high-heeled boots,
pants and a deep-red flannel shirt,
which added a gruesome brilliancy to
the scene. In a moment the rope was
about his neck and man who some
say looked like one of the men whose
horses had been taken yesterday, shin
ned up a telegraph pole and fixed one
end of the rope across the cross-bar.
All this time the Kid was jeering at the
crowd, laughing and cursing. He never
quivered. He was asked to say what
he wanted and was told he would be
given a hearing. He said: by God,
that's all right If you are impatient,
swing me up now. I amt afraid to
die, not a damn bit of it. Pull the rope
by Cod
"A voice in the audience: You're GO
ing to die now. Tell us your name
THE Kid: L don't give a damn if
do. It's Younger Lewis and my father
and mother reside in Neosho, Mo-
ANY messenger from a voice in the
crowd.
Well, tell my father I was not
scared; that died like nervy man.
Anything for your motherY
Not word She will see the mes
sage to the old man. Say, you fellows
go and look in that dugout and you
will find $4,000 there.
1.-THE KID, or Younger Lewis, as he at
the last moment called himself, con-
tinued chatting and laughing with the
crowd, pol1ing fun at them and cursing
for moment, and then someone yelled
Time is up The Kid said: L am 20
years old. l am game and ready to die
Go ahead with it. In an instant he
was pulled up above the throng. He
never quivered or kicked. He just went
up in the air and is hanging there now
He was the coolest man in the crowd
CRAWFORD WEAKENED.
"All the while Crawford was a specta-
tor of the scene. He began to weaken
and confessed, giving some valuable
information. He placed the RESPONSE
bility for the crime on the Kid The
mob showed him up to the improVised
platform and his head was about on a
level with the dangling feet of his
companion. He asked for Captain Bur
nett. The latter was a spectator in
the crowd He went to Crawford and
had long talk. Crawford had worked
on Burnett's ranch for years and was
a trusted man. Crawford confessed to
the robbery of yesterday but denied the
murder.
when they began to look for a sec
md rope he begged for whisky. 1t was
given to him. He addressed the crowd
in Comanche, English and Spanish
Those who understood him say his ut
terances We're incoherent. The rope
soon arrived and ii was put about his
neck. He fell forward either in a faint
or from the effects of the liquor. He
was soon strung up with his compan-
ion, and their bodies are still dangling
in midair."
THE CAPTURE.
Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 26.-Foster
Crawford and 1.-THE Kid" who ralded
the City National bank at Wichita
Falls, Texas, yesterday afternoon, kill
ing Frank Dorsey, wounding the book
keeper, p. p. Langford, and securing
s400, were surrounded last night, nine
miles from town, in a thicket, and sur
rendered when all hope was gone. They
were taken to Wichita Falls, where the
state rangers guarded them all night.
A mob is gathering for the purpose of
lynching the robbers, but there is no
fear of an advance on the jail as long
as the rangers are inside. Crawford is
wounded. but not seriously.
THEY ASK FOR A WARSHIP