The age-herald., 1900-12-18
Prisoner Protested His Innocence
 and Begged PiteousIy
WORK DONE IN ORDERLY MANNER
tempted to Disguise Themselves. Troops Were Sent But Ar
 rived Too Late.

Indianapolis, December 17.-A special to the Seminal from Bonneville Ind, says:
 John Rolla, the third of the colored men implicated in the murder of Holie Simons was hung to a tree in the courthouse yard by a mob of about one hundred men from Rockport at 6:30 o'clock this evening.
 Not shot was fired, and every thing was conducted as quietly as though the execu- tion had been one under the sanction of the law.
 Rola was brought to this place this aft ernoon about 3 o'clock in charge of Sheriff Anderson of Rockport Upon his arrival he was placed in a cell on the second floor of the jail, and his presence was thought to be known only to a few citizens.
 A few minutes after o'clock however a body of one hundred men marched through the principal streets of the town ito the jail, and demanded that the prisoner be turned over to it.
 Sheriff Hudson was out of town, and his deputy Ramona Cherry, was in charge of the jail. He had heard that mob was on its way here, and at once made an eff. fort to get the prisoner out of town to take him to Evansville, but before this could be done the mob arrived and the fu- tility of the attempt became apparent.
 Jail Door Forced.
 He declined to give up the keys to the jail, and the members of the mob at once with a telegraph pole, which was handled by dozen or more men.
 As a hole large enough to admit the body of a man was made through the wall, six members of the mob crawled through, and with sledge hammers broke down the door of Rolas cell Inside the jail the negro could hear the sounds of the telegraph poll as 1t bored its way inch by inch through the wall, and he lay upon the floor of his cell In an agony of fear. When the men reached his cell he protested his in7 nocense in loud tones, begging pitifully now and then to be spared The men working at the door of the cell might have been of marble, judged by the attention they paid to the negro. Little time was used in breaking into the cell, and in twinkling of eye the terrorzed negro was in the hands of the men who proceeded to place a rope around his neck. All left again, crawl ing through the hole by which they had en- tered, dragging the negro after them.
 A few minutes consumed in the march to the jail yard, the rope was thrown over the limb of a tree and a hundred hands pulled at the rope and sent his body flying Into the air. The loose end of the rope was tied to a tree, and soon as the members of the mob were sure that their work was com- pleted they left in as orderly a manner as they had entered the town.
 We're Not Disguised.
 None of the mob wore masks and men, to all appearances, in every station in life took part in the lynchng. Not d shot was fired before or after the lynchng, and ex- cept for the excited groups of men standing on the street corners, a stranger would have known nothing of the tragedy that had just been enacted. Citizens of Boone- vile made no effort to assist in the pro- tection of the negro, and number admit ted that the citizens generally were in sym pathy with the work of the mob.
 Judge Swan of the Warrick County Cir cult Court made every effort to suppress violence, but the members of the mob ig- nored him and proceeded with the work
 Members of the mob came to Bonneville in wagons, buggies and on horseback. Their rigs were left in grove half a mile out of the town, and then men marched in a column of twos under the command of three, who had evidently been selected as leaders,