The herald., 1897-11-15
RETRIBUTIoN IS METED OUT
BY A MOB OF DETERMINED
CITIZENS
J. Waldier Kirk, Chicago's King of
the Dudes, Undor Arrest at
New York
Associated Press Special Wire.

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Coudet, an Indian halfbreed, Paul Holy
track and Philip Ireland, full-blood In
dians, the first of whom was sentenced
to death for the murder of six members
of the Spicer family last February and
had just been granted new trial by the
supreme court on the ground that con
viction could not be secured on the un-
corroborated testimony of a criminal S
accomplices, and the latter two self
confessed accessories in the murder,
We're taken from the county Jail in EN-
mons county last night and lynched by
mob. The lynching had apparently
been coolly planned and was carried out
without a break.
Sudden and swift retribution was
meted out. Williamsport, where the
hanging took place, is about forty
miles from this city and off the railroad.
The news of the lynching was received
here this afternoon. The men had been
under the custody of Deputy Sheriff Tom
Kelly. They were taken from him by
the mob and hanged to a beef windass
several hundred yards from the Jail.
Their bodies were left hanging during
the entire day, the coroner not having
arrived, and no one else volunteered to
cut them down.
About forty men We're concerned in
the lynching. They rode into Williams
port on horseback late at night and
tethered their horses a short distance
from the city. that they might secure
them again as speedily as necessary
after the deed was done. The Jail is a
en- tia1 ctn CT n6 n
charge of Deputy Sheriff Kelly. Since
the confinement of the prisoners there,
so great has bee nthe fear that they
might escape in some way. that one man
has watched the prisoners all night.
Last night Kelly was on watch.
There was a meeting of the lodge of
Woodmen in a building near the Jail,
and as Kelly was member he expected
to meet some of the members of the
lodge after the meeting had adjourned.
To while away the time during the night
hours he was playing solitaire in front
of the cells in which the murderers were
confined. About o'clock in the morn
ing there was Il rap at the outer door of
the Jail and Kelly rose quickly and
turned the key in the lock, thinking the
persons he expected to meet had ar
rived. No sooner had he opened the
door than the mob crowded into the
corridors. All of them were masked
and the leaders carried ropes. Kelly at
once realized that the mob had come
after his prisoners. The lynchers We're
lauiet but determined. The leader pre-
sented a revolver at the head of the
deputy sheriff and told him they wanted
his prisoners and demanded that he open
their cells. Kelly demurred, but saw
that resistance was useless and un-
locked the door. Two of the prisoners
We're confined together and the other in
a separate cell. They had been reused
from sleep by the entrance of theSynch-
ers, and sat up, half awake and tremb
ling with terror. Holytrack and Ireland
We're pulled from their beds, ropes We're
fastened about their necks and they
were dragged out on the ground. after
being told to prepare for death. The
men were then dragged to a beef wind
lass, which had been erected to suspend
the carcasses of slaughteredbeeves and
strung up on a cross beam.
Coudet was the first man to be hanged.
1t is reported that he was asked before
he was hanged whether Blackhawlk and
murder for which he was about to be
hanged. He answered in the affirmative.
The rope which had been fastened about
his neck was then thrown over the cross
beam and he was suspended in midair
Holytrack and Ireland We're so nearly
unconscious from the effects of the drag
ging that they did not realize what was
about to happen when the ropes about
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beam. They We're unable to stand and
were slowly raised from the ground on
which they lay until their bodies swung
in the air and dangled from the wind
lass with that of Coudet. The mob then
DISPERSED, mounting their horses and
riding away.
THE KING OF THE DUDES
NEW YORK, Nov. III. Waldier
Kirk, known as the king of the Dudes"
who came here recently from Chicago,
was today arraigned in the police court
on u charge of shooting Richard Man
delbaum last night in the Hotel Girard
on Forty-fourth street, and was held in
S25OO bail for examination November 23d
Kirk was carefully dressed. He wore a
black frocl1 coat, yellow waistcoat,
striped black and white trousers, red AS
cot tie. with a pearl pin and patent
leather pointed CATERS with uppers that
matched the trousers. He stood before
the bar ungoved, holding his silk top
hat in his right hand. Around his head
and chin was wound narrow bandage
of white cotton to cover a scalp wound
on the top Of his head. His demeanor
was calm. He was brought into court by
a police captain. Mandelbaum was un-
able to appear and roundsman did the
formal charge of felonious assault
against Kirk. Mandelbaum' physician
sent a certificate in which he stated that
he was unable to determine at present
whether or not the wounds would result
fatally.
According to the police, Mandelbaum
failed to find his wife in her room when
he returned to the hotel Saturday and
went to Kinks room and kicked in the
door. Kirk is said to have fired five
times at the intruder. One shot entered
his body just above the heart and one
struck him in the groin. The others
went wild. Kirk said he shot in self
defense, declaring that Mandelbaum
struck him with a blunt instrument
In default of bail Kirk was locked up
AN EDITOR STABBED
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, Nov. IA
At Ashland AN inland .own twenty miles
west of here, w. H. Harrison, editor of
the Ashland Register, was stabbed to
death last evening by j. L. Mcdonald.
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