The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-09
COLO-BL CODED LYNCHING
A Deplorable Affair Startles the
People of Colfax, Wash.
QUIET WORK OF THE MOB
Chadwick Marshall Dragged to the Court
Room, Rope Is Put Around His
Neck and His Body Suspen-
ded From a Window.

Colfax Wash, Jan. S.-Chadwick
Marshall the suspected murderer of
young Hayden. near Pennington. Oct.
-. was taken from jail by a mob at
o'clock this morning and hanged to the
west wall of the court house. 4ester-
day there was suspicion that n mob
was collecting, but the officers made
no preparation to resist. The train
from Spokane last night arrived at l
o'clock. an hour late. A rev minutes
afterward prisoners in the Jail saw
body of masked men marching zip Mill
street, east of the Jail. Jailer Treff.
who was the only officer about the
court house, was awakened anu notified
that an officer wanted prisoner locked
up. He dressed and came out. and
was then surrounded by masked men
with drawn revolvers. Treff was in
formed that the mob wanted to hang
"Blackeye" Chadwick and Dakota
Slim and demanded Treff to give up
the jail keys. The officer W. 5 led to
the sheriff's office, where he got the
keys and gave them to his captors.
Twelve of the mob then entered the
jail, taking Treff with them.
At first the mob went into the worr
ans wing, where Dakota Slim" was
confined. slim" protested innocence,
and said: Take Blackeye who admits
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GO. The mob thought this a fair prop
osition, and went into the .;tst wing
of the Jail, where "Blackeye'S" cell was
unlocked. He had only time TO say:
Don't hurt me; before God | am inno-
cent, when one OF the mob struck him
"A heavy blow aNe. the head with an
iron bar, stunning him. y rrJe was
then fastened around his neck aud he
wis 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 the standard be-
tween the windows. "Blackeye
body was then pitched out head fore
most and left dangling at the end of an
eight-foot rope against the court house
wall in plain view of the people on
Main street.
While this was being done part Of
the mob went to Dakota Sims cell
again. During their absence the pIis-
oner had stuffed the Keynote of his
cell door with rags and fastened a
sharp knife on the end of DroomstIck.
With this spear he kept jabbing
through the barred door of his cell. thus
preventing anyone from approaching
the door to pick the rags out of the
keyhole His cell had two doors. the
inner ono being of solid steer. and be-
hind this he protected his body. Fin
ally one of The mob. catching a glimpse
of Sims" shoulder, fired a shot at
him. The bullet passed through his
sleeve, struck the wall and rebounded
striking him on the breast. He fell to
the floor. exclaiming: My God. they
have killed me-" One of the mob was
heard to say. Lets be sure we've
killed him." Another said: Let's give
him another shot and finish him"
Finally they decided that slim was
dead and left. His wound, however is
not serious.
The mob was at the jail less than
10 minutes. and the jailer family.
which occupied rooms directly benz
the Jail did not know or amy disturb
anee until "Blackeye's" body was taken
yesterday afternoon for Spokane. and
is expected to return by noon. Moth
ing is being done TO learn the identity
of the lynchers.
Another lynehng is not probable.
Mcdonald. or Dakota SLIM was tax
en- to Walla Walla tonight for safe
keeping. A majority of the people here
denounce the affair. Il consider 1t an
outrage" said Judge William McDon-
aid of the superior court. AN outrage
on justice and public decency II we
cannot maintain law better than that IL
is deplorable. 1t was a quiet. cold
bIooded affair The lynching was done
alarmed, and persons sleeping in the
basement of the court house were not
aroused and knew nothing of the trag-
edy until IL was over
Marshall. the victim of the mob. was
q member of the famous Marshall fam
lily Of Virginia While confined in the
jail here he received word of the death
af his father. Judge Thomas Jefferson
Marshall at the residence of his
daughter, Mrs. w. r. Smiley near
santa Fe. Judge Marshall was born in
Virginia in 1872 and moved to Missouri
in 1881. For IS years he held the office
of county clerk of Warren county In
1866 he moved to Mexico. Mo. where he
held various public offices.