The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-12-21
LYNCHED BY A MOB.
Vengeance Dealt Two Negroes In indiana
Authorities We're Overcome.

Authorities We're Overcome.
Rockport, Ind, Dec. 19.--Two ne.
groes, Jim Henderson and Bud Row
lands, who waylaid, murdered and rob-
bed Hollie simons, a white barber,
early this morning, were lynched to-
night in the Jail yard by mob OF
1000 The negj oes were arrested soon
after the murder occurred, and al
though Rowlands' clothing had blood
stains on it they claimed they were in-
nocent. In the meantime Sheriff
Clemens, OF Union county, Kentucky,
arrived with trained bloodhound.
When the dog was placed on the trail
he followed 1t to the house where Row.
lands lived, six blocks from the scene
OF the murder, and went baying to the
bed the negro had occupied. This
was enough for the excited citizens.
Within a lew minutes a mob OF a thous,
and bowling, bloodthirsty men with
sledge hammers. ropes and guns we're
on the way TO the Jail.
Sheriff Anderson and his two depu-
ties made stand and attempted to
protect the prisoners. The officers
were seized by the leaders of the mob
and disarmed. The sheriff, although
locked in a room and placed under
guard, stcutly refused to give up the
keys or tell where the prisoners were
hiding.
The mob made determined but un-
successful attempt to break in the Jail
door. Finally they secured telegraph
pole, and usipg it as battering ram
caved in the side wall OF the Jail. The
door OF Rowlands' cell was then quick
ly broken in with sledge hammers and
he was dragged from the Jail to the
east side OF the court yard, where a
moose was placed about his neck. He
was given time TO make statement,
in which he implicated Jim Henderson
and another negro. Rowlands then
begged piteously for mercy, but the
mob quickly swung Che confessed MUIR
derer to tree and riddled his body
with bullets.
Leaving the dangling body Of Row.
lands, the mob rushed back to the Jail
and burst open the cell occupied by
Henderson. Before the bars yielded to
the blows OF the slsdge some one in the
crowd fred upon the terrified negro as
ne crouched in the far corner. IL took
but few moments to get at Hender-
son, and the negro, more dead than
alive, was dragged at the ropes end to
the court house yard and swung to the
tree beside the body OF Rowlands Fir
| ing a parting volley at the swinging
bodies, the mob. eager for another vic
tim, hurried away to catch the other
negro implicated by Rowlands. lie
was found at hotel where he was em-
ployed as a porter. The negro escaped
to the roof Of the building, and Mama
ger De Bruler succeeded in convincing
the mob that the porter had nothing
TO do with the crime. The mob then
dispersed. apparently satisfied with its
work OF vengeance.
Simons was murdered In the most
brutal manner, one square from the
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going to his home from his barber shop
at 2 O'Clock this morning. He car
ried the receipts of the days work. q
fact OF which the negroes we're aware.
They attacked him from behind, strik-
ing him over the head with o heavy
club into which large mai had been
driven. Although terribly beaten,
simons made desperate fight. His
cries attracted two boys. The negroes
drove them away and accomplished
their original design, securing baf
containing something over $40 from
their victim. and made their escape
When others arrived simons was dead
His skull was crushed in and his heud
and face beaten to a pulp. The spike
on the club had punctured the skull in
four places and penetrated bis brain.
Walter Evans, one Of the young men
who attempted to rescue SiInons, and
who afterwards witnessed the lynch
ing. has become raving maniac.
The dead mans wife is prostrated.
and it Ii believed she will die from
the shock.