The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
''Dick " Williams, One Of the
Principals in Mcfarland
Murder, MObbed.
With SIedg0 Hammers the
Alma Jail Is Entered and
the Frightened Negro
Dragged Out.
SWUNG TO TELEPHONE POLE
Rescued When Nearly Dead,
and ReSuScitated by
the Physicians.

Alma, July 10.-Three unsuccessful
attempts have been made to lynch
aDfck'' Williams. alias Trilby who was
brought to Alma Sunday by Sheriff
Treu His life was saved by bravery
and promptness of City Marshal Pip
pert, after he had been strung up to
telegraph pole by the mob.
Afterward the officials succeeded in
protecting their prisoner from the mob
by securing the assistance of a number
of citizens who were sworn in as depu-
ties.
The news of the finding of the second
victim of Williams and James Render
in the weeds near Mcfarland was re-
sponsible for the frenzied excitement of
the people when Williams arrived in
charge Of Sheriff Treu.
Alma, Kan, July 1O-An unsuccessful
attempt was made Sunday night to
again lynch Dick Williams. A mob of
200 men went to the Jail. Sheriff Treu
deputized a large force and prevented
the capture.
The jail was heavily guarded all
night. The most prominent citizens ad-
vocate lynching yet and an attempt
may be made tonight.
Render will be Iynched if brought
there. Much bitter feeling exists against
Marshal Pippert who is blamed for res
cuing Williams from the telephone pole.
Williams is sore and bruised but not
injured. He does not remember any
thing of the attempted Iynching. The
mob at Mcfarland was also unsuccess-
fuI in procuring the prisoner enroute to
Alma. No arrests will follow yester-
days daylight attempt at lynching.
An Unsuccessful Attempt
Alma July 9.-Dick Williams, alias
''TriIby,' was hung here this afternoon
at 3:45 o'clock by a mob, but was cut
down six minutes afterward by City
Marshall Pipperd and is still alive.
A mob of $50 men met Sheriff Treu
this afternoon as he arrived here with
Dick Williams. one of the accused muir
derers OF Harry Tandy. the drug clerk
of Creighton, Mo, and an unknown man
near Mcfarland on June %.
As the sheriff started toward the
county Jail the mob followed. yelling.
kill him, hang him" One man tried
to pull him away from the sheriff while
another tried to strike him with a club.
Just as the prisoner was hurried up
the county court house step to the Jail,
a lariat was thrown. Williams STUN
bled and fell and the lariat missed
him. He was hurried into the jail and
the mob organized outside. In about
half an hour a tall man bearing a
sledge hammer, surrounded by 20 reso-
lutte men advanced on the Jail, over
powered the sheriff and city marshal,
broke in the door and fastened a moose
about his neck. With yell they start
ed down the street dragging the hand
cuffed and shackled prisoner. A block
distant they halted on the main street
of Alma. The end of the rope was
thrown over the cross arm of a tele-
phone pole and the mob pulled.
The body swung to and fro without
movement. Six minutes afterward
Marshal VIM. Pipperd rushed into the
crowd and cut the rope.
Williams was carried to the 1ail where
physicians tried to Tesuscitate him. He
was delirious and did not rally
Another attempt was made 20 minutes
afterward by cowboys on ponies, but it
was resisted.