The Butler weekly times., 1897-10-21
AN OATH
TO Lynch Kate KIum's Ab-
duct0r.
HER fathers kEiGHBORS SWEAR THE
NeGR0'S LIFE SHALL BE TAKEN
FOR HIS CRIME.
Mob Formed 10 Catch Him.

"e, tn" ubueTeir ilSO, Residents OF /
Grand Gorge, \ Y, aud vicinity, do
oledgs ourselves to s.aud for the |
honor Ct our women aai children. |
the good name OF the people of |
Delaware County. New York, is 1T |
stake and those who dishnnored US |
are about to escape justice and pros
cu.ion, through either the lax,ty of |
the laws # tie state or the derel,ct |
actions of the state and county fl
.-rs We do, therefore, solemuly
swear that justice shall be n-eted
nut to the abiuctors and seducers
of Kate K!um. the daughter Of
Henry kium, of Delaware County,
Nav York
Ninety citiza.s affixed their ramas
TO t above petition which was pass
I'D from housa to house in the out
lying districts of Grand Gorge and
through the town, They had been
worked into state cf frenzy hv The
apparent indifference of the law n
'ak n up the case of the abduction
# little Kate klum, the golden. haired
mountain g'ri. who was stolen from
her home in tha darkness of night,
on Thursday last by gang of no.
groes, ana afterward while in a de-
'nented state, made to marry Henry
Nondore, one of the gang.
The girl was found ciazed and
half starved on Saturday in negro
nut iu Ia dense woods outside Tea
ack, n, j., and taken to her home
10 a state of nervous prostration
The gang of groes followed her
aud second attempt was made to
kidnap her Saturday night by the
'olored ruffi.ns who were determined
that tb.i l.ad-r should have the
pretty white girl as his wife Then
the girl WAS placed under guard
Men stood near her constantly, guns
n hand, and it would have been
worth a negroes life to show himself
in the vicinity of her home yesterday
Half dozen or more negroes were
--en lurking in the woods in the
nelghbornood of her home to-day,
and 1t was evidently their intention
to sgain capture her. The girls
story was learned to-day for the FIRST
time. She told how when her father
and mother had LIFT home to spend
the nigh, Herry Mondore, his sis
rers. Mary and Annie Mondore, and
his cousin Frank, had come to her
home anl prepared their evening
meal
They told her pretty stories OF
the city until bedtime, when she and
her sIstsr retired. That IS all the
girl remembers, She bad been
drugged and WHEN she was carried
from the window OF her room she
was iusensible.
when l awoke from what seemed
to be horrible dream 1 was fright
enad,' she said. Il was 10 the train
e.. some place. I don't know wh.r
I began to cry, and two young men
asked me if / did not want to 60
with the negroes. I eouli not an
Iswer them aud ons of them told nse
/ if I did not want TO 60 to hold u;
my right hand. Bef rs could d'
his Nary Mondore caught ne BY
the arm. aud said: If you hold u;
YOUR hand l will Kill you l doa'
know anything more except in parts
until my father and Mr.. McIntyre
, he policeman, got me ard took N
, t. the train. / may have Marie
tha. negro, bat don't know that
did. Please don't ask me any more
. Nv head hurts SO" and the littl
E girl leaned back and placed her hea
j., on her fa,her's breast and the tw
sobbed aloud.
The statement was made in a roof
D at Murphy's hote', in the presenc
of Attorney e. L Andras, OF Stau
; ford. n Y
When il xas told to the scores {
rnen who had gathered outside. b
the father. the anger OF the M
J krex no bounds They were Il
j.. coiog at once to where the negrot
were gathered. on a monntsio know
as Niger Hill. and lynching the
a to a man, But the cool lead