The Mena weekly star., 1897-01-06
TOO TASTY.
An Uneasy Feeling Felt That Innocent
 Men Were Lynched.
ELEVATED CARS COLLIDE.
raeht Passengers More or Less Hurt in Kansas City, Kan.-Women as Ride Beaters-A Tramp Throws Him.
 self Before Train.

RICHMOND, Mo, Jan. 5.-The declara- fion of Prosecuting Attorney Aull, of Infayette county, that Jesse Winner and James Nelson, who were taken from the jail at Lexington on the night of December 6 and lynched by Ray county mob for the murder of the fcrmer's wife and two children, were innocent, is causing great excitement among the people of both Ray and La fayette counties. Prosecuting kator- pey Auil, of Lafayette county, who is known as a merciless prosecutor, said yesterday: "As there as God in Heaven, I believe those men were not guilty of the crime fer which they were lynched, and if it is the last act of my life shall bring their murdsrers to iustice." MT. Au1 will seek to secure the indictm ent of the lynchers at the February term of the Lafayette county court, though his life has been threat sned repeatedly within the last ten days for his activity in securing evil dence against the mob.
 Attorney James K. Ball, of Rich mond, who is looked upon as one of the foremost lawyers of Ray county, and is attorney for Lon Lackey, the alleged accosnplice of Winner and Nelson, said last night: 'tAt the February term of the Ray county criminal court I shall introduce evidence that will not only clear Lackey, but it will be so strong that the grand jury will not even indict him. That same evidence would ap- ply equally to Winner and Nelson were they alive The lynching was the most frightful mistake ever made by men who thirsted for blood"
 Winner and Nelson are said to have declared with their last breath that they were guiltless. In the meantime Ray county, particularly in the vicin- ity of Richmond, is in an unhappy con dition People talk of the affair in whispers and are apparently afraid to openly express their opinions. Those who were first positive that the men committed the crime have since grown doubtful, particularly as to Nelson.
 Two Elevated Cars Collide.
 KANSAS CITY, Kan, Ian. 5.-An east bound car on the Grandview division of the Elevated railway system ran through switch at Sixth street and Central avenue in this city at 7:50 o'clock this morning and collided with car going west on the op- posite track. The cars were nov ing at the usual rate of speed, and the force of the collision was so great that both were wrecked. About every window glass in the cars was shattered. There were no passengers in the westbound car but in the car going east were six woman and two men. These passengers were hurled from their seats and all were more or less injured.
 Women as Ride Beaters.
 FoRT SCOTT, Kan, Jan. 5.-Olive and Clara Lowe, two young women who had been employed in Kansas City, left there for Hot Springs, Ark, paying their fare as far as Paola. There, being out of money, they were put off the train. They boarded the next train and hid until they were found near here and arrested.
 Tramp a Suicide Before Train.
 BARNETT, Kan, Jan. 5.--As Engineer Dunn's locomotive, drawing Missouri Pacific eastbound passenger train, was entering Westphalia an unknown tramp threw himself before the cow catcher and was killed. Because of the slipperiness of the rails the body was pushed into the station.