The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-03
NEW WORLD.
Mob Burned Her Alive.

Mob Burned Her Alive.
Mrs L j West, white woman, VA. hurne,
alive by mob at her home in Lebanon county
by, early sunday morning. William DcveI
IA neighbur. and prosperous farmer, froi
whom his wife had obtained Il divorce becau-
OF the intimacy, was at her house, and 1t wa
| generally known that he was living with Nj
| West. He had received several notifications
| from the neighbors to leave the country or tax
| the consequences. He openly boosted that II
| white caps could make him leave. \ mob con
| posed of nearly 100 men, all heavily armed
surrounded the place. They called for Deyers
/ After waiting for several minutes the mob saw
| the front door open, and Mrs West appcaret
and told them Devers was not there. The,
persisted and she and her little girl ran TOWARD
! the back fence. The mob ordered them 10 stop
| The little girl stopped, but the mother ran on
| The mob began shooting at her. Then she raj
| back into the house, leaving her child in th'
yard paralyzed with fear. Repeatedly TN
| leader of the mob ordered Devers to come out
He never answered. Becoming cNaspcrated
the leader directed hi men to set the house 81
fire. They got dry fodder from a cornHclt
near by, piled 1t around the house, and apple,
the match. The building was soon in nalncs
sun the two people inside uttered no word MOI
did they leave the house. Numerous shots were
fired through the windows and doors. Thest
failed TO disodge the occupants. At last whcI
the house was seen TO be doomed, Devcrs ran
out a back or, his clothing in.s u blaze, The
mob began shooting at him and he fell
dead his body being pierced by more than a
dozen bullets. still the woman remained In
the building. Her daughter cried aloud for
help 10 her mother. The mob made no at
tempt to save the woman one man eNclaiming
Let her burn, she ought to die" One man
look ed through the window and said he saw
her STOPPING down In the big old fashioned fire
place trying to get away from the flames. lie
said he thought She was prayipg. as her hand.
We're uptted and clasped together. suddenly
the second floor fell in, and II was then known
that Mrs West had been burned alive. The
little West girl could scarcely talk Her reason
T. nearly gone. She keeps calling Mamma !!
mamma mamma" Then she shuts her eyes
anu shiyers hs II 4 nervous emu were passing
~ ~ m, ~ i ms ny ha.' ""i"'''
"'' NV ANY, nave ""l "'" he' up
Killed By n Hog hit,
y,u,,,, schumacher ~ ,ar-.,ld ,,,,t -,
So , 'd,r,'.', 100, ~ r,atr III , 49, "s
a.. fr,,,,, Mo gecte of , Mo rocnrns Trn,,, =,
,.;sa, - s,,,c III. ..hur,acLa, - =.
butcher and in tndeayuring 10 catch the hog
tine animal turned ON him and bit him viciously
through the leg. The leg AZ once began to
swell 10 an unusual Size and II was found nee.
eSsary to amputatr his leg to save his Ife. This
wa .ioue Int The operation was Intellectual.
Blon,t poisoning set in resulting in his death,
a stated Schumacher was engaged in the
timllc and polular youug man
SNORING in Ihcater.
Tuesday evening the tourhs of the town OF
Nirtnr rnI rave ONT thar they would clean ont
The / Mon thrater. and when manager smith OF
mo thratrr accused Tom I,ohroc one OF mo an
,li,nrp of being The lrader shoniinp afliov
was begun. Manager smith of the theatcr and
'Tn,,, p9sror ,rrrp Killed Gporur t'erTnson ,yns
,nnrtnliy Wounded. Robert smith was shot in The
thirh and Fred Ellis had his arm broken bv a
shot several others received flesh wounds
4 dozen men took part i'll the shooting.
Tho ,,ouse of I Townsend Hurden Madison
.,i,Hro NJ. yorL ri,v u,oe rohhad Fridar nirht
money and securities TO inc yalne
NJ az Ga1 Tbn rni,lnr,. vas rofnn,t,te1 ,ybjic
Mr. and Mrs Burden were m the opera. ana was
li.,nre,cd on thpir rcturn homo aiftrr miini,rh,
pono,,. from, uo,ti ar, ,bo, ,boro wa IN
,,hort ra,oin,inrary uurisinr Cbri tn,as nye bnt
Winnoiyic pronntIv snnnres.,t and
,sos,ot NO ia,,1,crs ''i' ~
- - ,,,,,,
.urnna am iSIis,men, a~ainl, Iowwnr w
Tor snhnrnatfnn If nc,'inrv IN rho
eSenso Of iIo;mes.
' "
Postmaster John Pace shot and Killed DIR
" l. Taylor, member OF the Illinois legislature,
n lne eiuo.' III i'osi3.iec 9uiuaN evening" ~.
'ansc of family troubles race had brought
I SUIT against laylor Jrcaklhs up MS family
y, ihu az st9aS y WA, WIZ nJ wn ~ MoaA III
az ,,,o, ~. paca' rifa 70 pac ma ogero5
81 W. ~, ga -, ni,bdra, ,;, ~, noin
- 800 ~ ,i Iraw rcrnirnr poca uent -, Ne
~ ,','aror,t" -, 30, bis ,,ona,s ,n1 roa4,h;n'.
MO his drawer, cot his revolver. II is a self
ecker He began at once to fire, and Tavlor
ELI dead near the back door of the Office Mr.
Pace made no effort TO nee but calmly surrcnd.
rcd his revolver saving his life mad been in
LANCER and he had fired onIy in self defense.
Dr. Tavlnr had long been prominent in political
rclcs in that part OF the state. Among his
lose friends were senator Cullon and John II
Gamer.
New York city il lust now suffering from an
ndrmic of big hurrlarics Following the
turden robbery OF Friday night when Jewels !
worth over $4,000 were taken comes the r, mort |
f another burglary, of similar character,
hieves having entered the residence of Mrs |
francis Barnes In that city saturday even /
ng and stolen Sl01O worth OF jewels
The II w Iadd Company one of the leafin,, |
rv goods houses in Providence n / and ri |
which eyGoy Ladd, the Republican leader. is /
!, ,ho hoad made an assiynmapt Tuc,I,,. ,,,i,b |