The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-11-23
TAKEN FROM JAIL
AND lYNCHED.
Desperate Mob Battered Down
the Bars Which Held Will
liam Huff.
MASKS TORN FROM THREE MEN.
Victim Calls Their Names Loudly as he
Was Hurried Away. Met His Doom
Gamely. Sheriff inundated.
MASKS TORN FROM THREE MEN


Dexter. Mo. Nov. 16.-William
Huff was taken from the Bloomfield
jail at an early hour this morning
and lynched by mob. Their pres
ence was not known III the town until
they posted sentries To every avenue
leading To the Jail Sheriff and TAILOR
Evans was awakened by some one
striking IA match III the room and az
he raised up III the bed To see the
cause of the light. he was covered 10y
five pistols in the hands OF the same
number of men.
We want W illiam HUFF. :" the lead
or of the mob said, and are going
to have him. Let lis have the keys.
The matron of the Jail, Mrs. Busby.
appeared upon the scene at this june
ture and said:
Il have secreted the keys in the
next room, and you can only procure
them over my dead body.
and the door battered down.
Huff heard the noise from his cell
and as the doors swung open, told
the mob that they need trouble them
selves no further, a. he would come
out and meet his fate like man. \
moose was quickly adjusted about his
neck and he was quickly taken about
one mile from town and hanged to a
tree
Before leaving the jail he tore the
masks from the faces of three men
and called their names out loudly.
He also shouted to the prisoners to
send word to his son in Arkansas to
come home and wreak vengeance
upon the three men.
Huff's body was cut down this
morning and now lies in Bloomfield
awaiting the finding of the coroner's
Jury, which will return "A verdict to-
morrow.
The crime for which Huff was in
generated was the killing of Andrew
Melton. a young man who lived near
Puxico i'm the northern portion oil this
county last Saturday. A feud has
existed between the two families for
several months, and of late the heads
of the two families have been cOntin-
ually on the lookout for trouble.
Last Saturday young Melton and
old man Huff were seen approaching
each other on the railroad track. As
they neared each other they began to
fire and at the first volley Melton fell
mortally wounded. Three other shots
finished him.
Indignation OF the people ran so
high that Hnff was taken away short
IL after his arrest and lodged iii jail.
A special grand jury was summoned
yesterday and he was indicted Tor
murder in the first degree.
1t was thought this would quiet all
mob talk. Huff was a native OF
White county, Illinois, and had left
there a dangerous man and when IN
anger was feared by all his neighbors.
Andrew Melton, the young man kill
ed. was a boy and IA cripple.
This morning Judge Fort had a
special grand jury summoned, which
will be empaneled tomorrow TO IN
uuire into the lynching OF Hun.
Some valuable evidence has been
collected to-day. which, it IL thought,
wifi lead to the apprehension OF the
leader and the men who composed
mob. 1t il definitely known that
there were at least 100 men and that
they reside near the scene OF the trag-
edy of last Saturday.
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