The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
BLACK EYES" CRIME
In Company With Dakota Slim" He
Was Held for the Murder
of Young Hayden.
DEEDS. THAT EXCITE SOBER CITIZENS TO VENGEANCE
Dakota Slim'sv Denial of Guilt
His Novel Defense and Lucky
Escape From Death

Colfax, Wash, Jan. S.-"Blackeye'
Chadwick Marshall, the suspected muir
derer of young Hayden; near Farming
ton, the night of Oct. %. was taken from
jail by a mob at o'clock this morning
and hanged to the west wall Of the
court house. Yesterday there was a
suspicion that a mob was collecting,
but the officers made no preparation to
resist it.
The train from Spokane last night
arrived at 1 o'clock, an hour late. A
few minutes afterwards the prisoners
in the jail saw a body of masked men
march up Mill street, east of the Jail.
Jailer H. B. Treff, who was the only
officer about the court house, was
awakened and notified that an officer
wanted a prisoner locked up. He
dressed and came out. and was then
confronted by masked men with drawn
reviewers. Treff was informed that the
mob wanted to hang -Blackeye" Chad
wick Marshall and Dakota Slim" Nc
Donald, and demanded Treff to give up
the Jail keys. The officer was led to
the sheriff's offices, got the keys and
gave them to his captors. Twelve of
the mob then entered the jail, taking
Treff with them.
DAKOTA SLIM
At first the mob went into the wo-
mans wing, where Dakota Slim" was
confined. Slim protested his inno-
cence, and said: Take 'Blackeye,' who
admits his guilt, and if he duplicates me
l will 60" The mob thought this a fair
proposition, and went into the east
wing of Jail, where ''Blackeye's" cell
was unlocked. He had only time to
say don't hurt me, before God 1 am
innocent" when one of the mob struck
him heavy blow over the head with an
iron bar, stunning him. A rope was
then fastened around his neck, and he
was dragged out Of the jail and up the
narrow stairs to the superior court
room to a double window, where the
rope was tied around standard be-
tween the windows. Buckeyes" body
was then pitched out headforemost, and
left dangling at the end of an eight
foot rope against the court house wall,
in plain view of the people con Main
street.
While this was being done part of
the mob went to Dakota Sims" cell
again. During their absence the pris-
oner had stuffed the keyhole of the cell
door with rags and fastened sharp
knife on the end of broom stick. With
this spear he kept jabbing through the
barred door of his CELL thus prevent
ing anyone from approaching the door
to pick the rags out of the keyhole. His
cell had two doors. the inner one being
Of solid steel, and behind this he pro-
tected his body. Finally one of the
mob. catching a glimpse of Sims
shoulder, fired shot at him. The bull
let passed through his sleeve, struck the
wall and rebounded striking him on
the breast. He fell to the floor ex-
claiming, MY God, they have killed
me-" One of the mob was heard to
say Tets be sure we've killed him.
Another said: Lets give him another
shot and finish him"
Finally they decided that slim was
dead, and left. His wounds, however
are not serious. The mob was at the
Jail less than ten minutes, and the Jail
ers family, who occupied rooms direct
~ beneath the jail, did not know of any
disturbance until sBlackeye's' body
was taken down, an hour later Sheriff
Sims left yesterday afternoon for Spo-
kane, and is expected TO return by noon.
Nothing is being done to learn the iden-:
THY of the lynchers.
Marshall, the victim of the mob, was a
member of the famous Marshall family
of Virginia. While confined in the Jail
here he received word of the death of his
father Judge Thomas Jefferson Marshall,
at the residence of his daughter Mrs
W. F. Smiley, near Santa Fe.