The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-18
THIS TINE IT WAS IN INDIANA
BATTERED DOWN THE JAIL wAII
TO REACH THE TREMBLING
CULPRIT
WORK WAS DONE IN SILENCE
Not a Shot Was Fired Refora
After the ExecutiOn-No Eff
fort at Conceal
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Dec IA o
clal to the Sentinel from Bonneville Ind
says: 00-Ao ne 1los
John RoHa, the third of the colore,
IN men implicated in the murder of HoIiia
Slinons' was hung 10 tree in the court
eaIs t,ouSe yaTo by mob of about 100 men
ing. '"iS eVch-
Not shot was fired and evervthinc,
was conducted as quietly as if the exe,
cutlon mad been one under the sanctiI,,
OF the law ~ 'i"lA
Koiia was brought to this place this
aeternoon about 4 o'clock. in cLaroa 20
Sheriff Anderson, of Rockport ITnnn ~, -.
arrival he was placed in a cell ON tns
second Hoor of the jail and his p,e.enoe
was Known to only few citizens a few,
minutes after o'clock a bo1v of 1co
men marched through the princinoI
street OF the town to the jail and GO.
Lndhoed that the prisoner be turned over
to it, o'ef
Sheriff Benjamin Hudson was ont =.
town and his deputy, RAYMOND Cherrv
was IN charge of the jail He had baoT1
til'tt mob was on its way here and ~
once made an effort to get the nriscne,.
out of town and take him to FyansviIle
out De1ore this could be accomplished the
mob had arrived and the futi i.itv of the
attempt became apparent
BATTERED IN THE WALL.
FTe declined to give up the KEYS to tha
jail and the members of the mob at nuce
oesan TO batter down the walls of the
9all with telegraph pole, which was
handled by a dozen or more men. AS
soon as hole large enough to admit the
body of man, six members of tho MOI,
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 pitifuly now
and then to be spared. The men working
al 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 breaking into the
cell and in the twinllling of an eye the
thoroughly terrorized coiored 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 shev
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 a tree and hundred willing hands
pulled at the rope and sent his body fly
ing into the air. The loose end of the
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, a stranger would have known
nothing OF the tragedy that had just
been enacted
Citizens of Bconeyille made no effcrt 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-
,ce dcd with its work.
The members of the mob came In
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.