The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-18
MOTHER GLAD
OF LYNCHING
Mrs. Frost Tells Feelings
Toward Negro.
RAIL STANDS AS
WARNING TO OTHERS
Will Be Standing Monument to
Crime and Penalty.

Denver, Colo, Nov. 17.-'eWeIi, no
other parents will suffer from that
brute's crimes,
These were the first words spoken
by Mrs. Frost today when asked for
an expression on the punishment Of the
negro who confessed that he was the
murderer of her child.
"Of course I was not consulted as to
the punishment to be melted cut. and
did not know what fate awaited him."
she continued. II did not care Just so
he was removed from the face of the
earth.
Nothing can atone for the death of
my baby, and I did not have the feel
ing Of revenge which so many people
said ought to possess me. Ny one
thought was to save others the pain
we suffered.
Whatever was done with that brute
was right, no matter what
Certainly he did not suffer what
Louise dtd, and she was innocent while
he was guilty. Maybe 1 would have
some pity We're I not her mother. no
one but Il parent OF an outraged and
murdered child can know just how
feel
The murdered ChiId's father. Robert
W Frost. returned to Denver today
from the scene of the lyBching.
a great load has been lifted off US"
he said, and as for me, ! don't care
who condemns me for starting the
blaze.
NO other father will have to do
what did on account of that niger
and as 1 said before, If the brute had
been lynched for his first offense in
Kansas my baby would be alive today
and our hearts would not be broken.
Death Penalty May Be Restored.
The movement to reinstate the capt.
tai punishment in the statutes of Colo
from the murder Of Louise Frost at
LimOn and the lynching that followed
the confession Of the murder. An
amendment is now being drawn and its
advocates viii make an aggressive
fight for its enactment at the coming
session of the legislature. By this bill
hanging will be made the penalty for
murder and possibly also for assaults
such as that committed upon Louise
Frost previous TO her murder.
No steps have been taken yet to
prosecute any members of the mob
which burned young Porter at LimOH
last night and it is unlikely that any
viii be taken. Governor Thomas re
fuses to express any opinion whatever
In regard to the affair.
District Attorney McAllister, of the
judicial district of which Lincoln
county is a part. said IN reply TO
question that criminal proceedings
against the leaders in the LimOH trag-
edy would be utterly futile on account
of the public approval of the lynChing
and thai proceedings would not be be
gun until the next meeting OF the dis
tTict court in October, if at all. He
strongly condemned the action of
Sheriff Freeman in attempting to re-
for n 20 lin
coin county Jail when he knew IL could
not safely be done
CIergymen interviewed unanimously
deprecate the method used in the Lii
mon lynching, but some of them frank
" said that the negro should have been
hanged or shot.
Preston Porter and Arthur Porter,
fau.4er and brother respectively of the
boy, We're released from the city Jail
this morning. They intend to return
10 their home at Lawrence, Kan.
Rail Stands as Warning.
Ifmon, Colo, Nov. 17.-No inquest
fl is said, viii be held over the remains
Of Preston Porter, jr., commonly known
as John Porter, who was burned az a
stake near Lake station last evening
by mob to aVenge the murder of
Louise Frost, which the young negro
confessed he had committed. In fact
the coroner can find no remains upon
W hlcn 10 GOlQ an inquest } lew men
remained late last night at the EDOt
out on the prairie where the murder
was committed and avenged and re-
neWed the fire again ard again until
every VeStige OF the negro was gone.
The iron rail To which the victim was
bound viii be left standing as warn
ing % all inclined 10 deeds similar to
that OF which young Porter was burn
ed.
A mound of earth has been piled up
around the iron rail. covering the ashes
and It viii remain as a monument IN
sight OF all passing trains.
It IS estimated that 700 persons wit
messed the execution. No women re-
manned during the cremation, but
many OF them went 10 the scene before
the fire was lighted and when the ne
gro was led from carriage Tor insDec-
ton.
A mass meeting has been called for to-
morrow afternoon at the First Baptist
church to protest against the work Of the
IfmOn mob and to discuss the question
of a restoration of capital punishment
Governor Thomas has promised 10 ad-
dress the meeting.