Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-12-19
AN INDIANA MOB.
SUMMARY PUNISHMENT OF TWO
NEGROES FOR MURDER.
Held Up, Killed and Robbed white Bar
ber--Mob Contained One Thousand Fren-
nled Men. who Broke Into the JAN and
Secured the Negroes.

derson and Bud Rowland, who waylald,
brutally murdered and robbed Hollie
Simons, a white barber, early this
morning, were lynched in the jail yard
by mob OF 1000 frenzied citizens.
The negroes were arrested this morn
ing, although Rowland's clothing had
blood stains on 1t, the men claimed
they were innocent of the crime. In
the meantime Sheriff Clemens of I'm
ion county, Kentucky, arrived with a
trained bloodhound in response to
telegraph summons. When the dog
was. placed on the trail he followed it
until he reached the house where Row
land 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. With
in few minutes mob of a thousand
bowling, blcodthirsty citizens, with
sledge hammers, ropes and guns, were.
running to the Jail. Sheriff Anderson
and his two deputies made stand and
attempted to protect the prisoners. The
officers were seized by the leaders of
the mob, who disarmed them. The
sheriff was then locked in room and
placed under guard, nut he stoutly re-
fused to give up the keys or tell where
the prisoners were hidden.
Failing to get the keys, the mob
made determined but unsuccessful
attempt to break into the jail door. BY
this time the would-be lynchers were
in a perfect frenzy, and securing
telegraph pole, they used it as bat
tering ram and caved in the side wall
of the Jail. The door of Rowlands cell
was then quickly broken in with
| sledges and he was dragged from the
Jail to the east side of the court house,
where a moose was placed about his
neck, He was given time to make
statement, in which he implicated Jim
Henderson and another negro. Row
land then begged piteously for mercy,
but the nah. swiftly, swung the cqn.
AreAseu mafderer to a tree and riddled 1
his body with bullets
Leaving the body to Rowland dang
ling from the limb of the tree, the mob
rushed back to the Jail and attempted
to burst open the cell occupied by
Henderson, but before the steel bars
yielded to the blows of the sledges,
some one in the crowd fired upon the
terrified negro as he crouched in the
corner of his cell A few moments
more and the door of the cell was
broken in. The negro, more dead than
alive, was dragged at ropes end to
the court house yard and swung to the
tree beside the body of Rowland. Fir
ing parting yolley at the swinging
bodies the mob, eager for another vic
TEN, hurried away to locate the other
negro implicated by Rowland in his
confession. He was found at hotel
where he was employed as porter.
The negro escaped to the roof of the
building and Manager DeBruler sue
ceeded in convincing the mob that the
porter had nothing to do with the
crime, proving an alibi for him.
The mob then dispersed, apparently
satisfied with its awful work of ven
geance.
The negroes victim, Hollie Simmons,
was murdered in the most brutal man
ner, one square from the main street
of the city, as he was going to his
home from his barber shop at 2 o'clock
Sunday morning. AS was customary
with him he carried the receipts of the
day at his place of business. The me-
groes were aware of this and evidently
laid their plans accordingly. Crouch
ing behind fence. they waited for
their victim and jumped out from the
place OF concealment and attacked him
from behind as he passed, striking him
over the head with heavy club with
large nail driven into the end Of it.
Although terribly beaten. Simmons
made desperate fight and his cries
and struggles soon attracted two boys,
who went to his assistance, but they
were a moment two late. the victim of
the negroes having succumbed to the
terrible beating and was lying dead at
their feet. The murderers then drove
the would-be-rescuers away and ac-
compllshed their original design-that
Of robbery securing bag containing
something over $40 from the PROSTATE
form of their victim, and made their
escape.
Simmons was terribly beaten; his