Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-01-25
MOB HANGS TWO MURDERERS.
Half Brothers arc Hanged Sdo by Side In
Kansas Jail Yard.

FoRr Scorr, KANs.. january 23.-Geo.
Silbco and Ed. Mccks, half brothers, who
wcro convicted of murder hore early last
week, wero lynched by n mob in tho
county Jail yard here Saturday night
AT late hour thor bodies were dang
ling from two trees in tho yard, tho au-
thortics having been so completely sur
priscd that no effort has boon made to
remove the CHASTITY evidence of tho mob's
work. Tho two mon, who hailed from
Kansas City, had boon convicted of
murder in the first degree, thoir victim
being young German named Leopold
Edlngcr, whose murder occurred in Oc-
tobcr last near hero. Tho murdorers dis
posed of Edlinger's pair of mules, q
horse and wagon in Batos county.
Amos Phillips, an accomplice of tho two
brothers in tho crime, was convicted of
murder in tho first degree. Tho evidence
! showed that the three mon belonged to
gang Of thieves who had been regularly
disposing of thcir plundor in Bates
county.
Th lynching was the work of mob
that began gachoTing iii tho vicinity OF
tho county Jail soon aftcr dark, but tho
purpose of the assembling crowds seems
not to have been suspected until the Jail
was attacked. A barbcd wiro trocha
that had been previously built around
the Jail was torn down, tho heavy doors
leading to tho prison were battered in
and when tho mob como bowling out of
l,n i,,
interior of the place looked us if it had
been wrecked with dynamite. George
Silbcc, the older of the two brothers; de-
fled his captorS until the last. He placed
the moose around his own neck and died
curSinG the crowd. just as he was jcrketl
int" eternity he turned to his brother
with an oath and commanded him to "dic
game. The brother obeycd, maintaining
an outward calm until he was icrkctl
into the air.
Before this Silbcc had shouted to tho
mob in defiant t2ncs that he himself shot
Edlingcr and that Amos Philips struck
him on the head with an AK. lie insisted
that his brother Ed. did not participate
In the crime.
"Bc sure and get rhilips." the doomed
men urged.
ihtn shouted to Ills tormcntors, he
badr 'hHm, with Il curse, to string him
up. The vengeance manifested toward
the accomplicc Philips was probably due
to the fact that the latter soon after his
| arrest made n full confession of the
| crime, though when he was put on trial
he rcpudiatcd this earlier confcsson Ed
Mccks was equally fearless in the hands
| of the mob, but he did not manifest the
spirit of bravado shown by his brother.
lis last words were:
"llang me, if you will, but | did not
help kill EdlinGcr George shot him and
Phillips struck him with an AK, ] did,
The doomed man got no farther in his
statement, for four or five men had him
ny the feet, others drew the moose around
his neck, throwing the loose end over 4
limb and in minute he was strangling
to death.
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