Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-12-18
LYNCH THIRD negro
lndiana Mob Completes Its Work Of
Revenging Murder Of Barber
Simons
John Rolla, the Third Suspect,
Found at Bonneville Jail Bat.
tered Down.
Rope Placed Round His Neck
and He is Hung to q
Tree
Bonneville. Ind. pee 1s.-,1ofn Rolla


Bonneville, Ind pee ls-John Rolla,
the third of the celesSld men Implicated.
IN the murder OF Ileile simons, was
hanged 10 tree in he court house
yard by a mod Of bcut 100 men from
sFs9ckppr a I 8: 80 last evening.
Not a shot was fired and everything
Was conducted as quietly as If the ex-
ss,siion had been one under the sane
ton Of me Law.
Roils Was brougli, % this place Mon
day afternoon at ;!bout g O'clock in
Charge Of Sheriff anderson, o Rock
port Upon his al lie MAS placed
in cell on the I'd floor of the jail
and his presence is known only to a
iSfew citizens.
y few minutes after 8 o'clock body
of no mounted ileh marched thru the
lsprineipal street OF tile Town TO the jail
land demanded tbs. the prisoner be
isturned over.
Sherlff Benjamin Hudson was out of
town and his deputy, Raymond Cher
~ vas In charge es the jail. He had
heard that a mob Was on its way here
land he al once made an effort 10 get
1.-The prisoner out o town and take him
lao Evansville, blu, before this could be
/ done the mob arrived and the fiitility
I1of he attempt became apparent
He defined to givs up ne Keys of the
lsjail and the members of The mob Al,
ellee began 70 batter the malls of the
ljaii with L telegraph pole when was
\ handled by a dozen OF more men AS
! soon as a hole large enough 10 admit
/ The body Of man was battered thru
4 the wall six members OF the mob
cfa'vlf-d thru and with sledge ham :
/ flerss broke down he DOR of Rolla' S
/ I'll, Inside the negro could hear the
SCUM. OF the telegraph pole as I bored
us Way, inch by inch. thru the wall. and
he lay upon the floor of his cell in an
ago y Of fear
When the men reached the cell he
Izi'lotested his nnoce nce in LOUD tones,
bsgasing ptisully TO b. spared. No al
sls'Ssion was paid q tbs Negroes plead
ings
4 Little time was lost in breaking into
tbs cell and ROPE Was quickly placed
arqund The negle's neck. The ner
then crasvled thru the hole by which
they had entered, Tagging the nrgre
4 after them.
The MOB then N sehed 70 the jai
yard. the rope WAS thrown over tbs
4 limb Of ire. ana a hundred wiling
& hands pujled at the rope and sent tbs
negro flying into the air. The loose enc
slsof the rope vas tied to a tree and q:
soon a 5 the members of the mob wer,
SIRE hat their work had been com
4 plef.srlt hey left In as orderly a name
4 as they had entered the town.
None Of H. mob More masks ans
d men u all Appearances in every station
Z IN Ne took part N the ynchine. Not I
a shot was fired before or after IN,
4 lynehlng
4 Citizens Of Roouevilie rada no ef
]. Tor: % assist 81 he protection OF tn,
NEGRO and a number quietly as,mittei
hat citizens generally were IN sym
Ipafhy with tfle work OF he mob JUG,
Swan. OF the Warrck county clrcni
court made every effort to suppres
violence, but the members Of the mo
vi Ignored him ana proceeded with tn
q work,
81 Members OF the mob came TO Boone
d Vile il wagons buggies and on horse
back. Their rig were left in a grove
5 half niie out Of the town and the me
!! marched in columns OF twos under tn
command OF three men. who had eyj
i Identity been selected as leaders.