The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-18
THIS TINE IT WAS IN INDIANA
BATTERED DOWN THE JAIL WALL
TO REACH THE TREMBLING
CULPRIT
WORK WAS DONE IN SILENCE
Not a Shot Was Fired BEFORE or
After the ExecutiOn-No Eff
fort at Conceal
ment,

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. IA Gro
clal to the Sentinel from Booneyille. Ind
says: -44e' Ai'u''
John Rolla, the third of the coloreo
men implicated in the murder of HoIIie
SIlhoHs was hung 10 a tree in the court
mouse yard by mob of about 100 men
from Rockport at $50 o'clock this even.
ing. LIS eN'i1'
Not shot was fired and evervtbino.
was conducted AS quietly as if the exe.
cotloh mad been one under the sanction
OF the law 'A
Roila was brought to this place this
aeternoon about o'clock, in charge oP
SherlH Anderson, of RocKport TTnon bis
arrival he was placed in a cell on tne
second floor of the jail and his p!e-onoe
was Known to only a few citizens. A few
minutes after o'clock a bo1y of lc0
men marched through the principal
street OF the town to the Jail and &C.
to it. ~
Sheriff Benjamin Hudson was ont NJ
town and his deputy, Raymond Cherry
was IN charge of the jail He had haar5
mat a mob was on its way here and at
once made an effort to get the prisoner
out OF town and take him to Evansville
put before this could be accomplished the
moi mad arrived and the futi.ity of the
attempt became apparent
BATTERED IN THE WALL.
FTe declined to give up the keys to the
jail and the members of the mob at once
began TO batter down the walls of the
jail with a telegraph pole, which was
handled by a dozen or more men. AS
soon as hole large enough to admit the
body of q man, six members of the mob
crawled through and with sledge ham,
merS broke down the door Of ROlla's
cell. Inside the jail the negro could hear
the sounds of the telegraph poe as 1t
bore its way inch by inch through the
wall and he lay upon the floor in his
cell in an agony of fear. When the men
reached his cell he protested his inno-
cence IN loud tones begging pitifuily now
and then to be spared The men working
at the door of the cell might have been
made of marble, judged by the attention
they paid to- the Wailing of the negro.
Little time was used in brea king into the
cell and in the twinllling of an eye the
thoroughly terrorized colored man was
in the hands of the men who proceeded
to place q rope around his neck
HANGED 70 a TREE.
All left, craving out by the hole hey
had made dragging the negro out with
them. A few minutes only was con-
sumed in the march to the court yard,
where a rope was thrown over the limb
of tree and a hundred willing hanCia
pulled at the rope and sent his body fly
rope was tied to a tree and as soon as
the members of the mob were sure their
work had been completed they left in as
orderly a manner as they entered the
town. None of the mob wore masks, and
men, to all appearances, in every station
of life, took part in the lynching.
WAS NO DISORDER.
Not a shot was fired before or after the
lynchine and aside from the excited
groups of men standing on the street
corners, stranger would have known
nothing OF the tragedy that had just
been enacted.
Citizens of Bonneville made no efCrt to
assist in the protection OF the negro and
some admitted quite frankly that the
citizens generally were in sympathy with
the mob
Judge Swab, of the circuit court, made
every effort to prevent violence, but the
mub paid no attention to him and pro-
&c dcd with its work
The members of the mob came tn
Bonneville in wagons, on foot and ON
horseback They came in columns OF
three under the command of men who
had evidently been selected as leaders.