The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-02-27
BANK ROBBERS LYNCHED
The Murder of Cashier Dorsey
Speedily Avenged,
YOUNGER LEWIS GREAT NERVE,

youthful Desperate Who Laughed and
Chatted with His Self Appointed Exc
cutioners, and who Met Death with
Profanity on His Lips.
WICHITA FALLS, Tex, Feb. 27-At $3.50
o'clock last night mob of several thou
sand persons attacked the Jail here where
Foster Crawford and "The Kid were
confined. After a show of resistance on
the part of the authorities the mob bat
tered in the Jail doors and forcibly took
possession of the prisoners, who killed
Cashier Dorsey in Tuesdays bank rob
berry.
The two men were taken to the bank
which they attempted to rob and an inn
/ provised scaffold was erected The first
impulse of the half crazed mob was TO
burn the prisoners, but calmer counsel
prevailed.
Yels of 'rHang the Kid first" went up.
( Then others, "No, hang tho oldest first"
/ The "Kid' refused TO say n word, and
those having him in charge yankod him
onto u box. In moment the ropc was
about his neck and man who some say
looked like one Of the men whose horsoh had
been taken on Tuesday, fixed one end
across the cross bar All this time the
kid was iooring at the audience laugh
ing and Cursing. He never quivercd He
was asked to say what he wanted, and was
told he would be given a hearing.
He said: "By c., that's all right. If you
are impatient swing me up now. l amt
afraid to die not u d. bit of it. Pull the
rope, by c."
A voice in the audience; you're going
to die now. Tell us your name"
The kid" 81 don't give d if do.
1t is Younger Lewis, and my father and
! mother reside i'm Neosha, Mo-
''Any mossagoy' from a voice in the
crowd.
"Well, tell my father l was not scared a
bit; that l died like a nervy man"
''Anything for your mothor?"
"No not a word. She will see the mos
sage to the old man. Say, you fellows go
and look in that iugout and you will find
= $4,000 there"
= ''The Kid" or Younger Lewis, as he at
the last moment said he was, continued
chatting and laughing with the crowd,
poking fun at them and cursing for mo-
ment, and then some one yelled: "Time
is up"
'The <id' said: 81 am 20 years old, and
} robbed that d bank. l am dead game
i and ready to die Go ahead"
= In an instant he was pulled up above
Q the throng. He never quivered or kicked
He just went up in the air. Men on the
frontier for years and years said no gamer
man ever died, He was the coolest man in
all the great throng.
All the while Crawford was n spectator
t of the scene. He began to weaken and con
fessed, giving some valuable information
He placed the responsibility for the crime
on the kid.
h The mob pulled him off the improviscC
II platform next TO the bank he attempted
y to rob, and his head was about on leve
u with the dangling feet of his companion
g He asked for Captain Burnett. The latte
n was spectator in the crowd. He went t.
IS Crawford and had long talk.
L Crawford had worked on Burnett rancl
'r for years and long was a trusted man. II
is began stealing his employers stock, how
4. ever and associating with territory out
'e laws, and the two parted company. Craw
d ford confessed to the robbery of Tuesday
e but denied the murder. He was u small
c man, poorly clad, with a red face ant
"A short clipped black mustache
5, When they began to look for a secon,
i rope he begged for whisky. 1t was givel
IS him He talked and then begged for more
II He again addressed the crowd in Com
IS anche, English and Spanish. Those VIII
'e understood say his utterances were incC
herent. The rope soon arrived, and as
was put about his neck he fell either in
faint or from the effects of the liquor h
At had drank He was soon strung up alon
with his companion.