Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-20
DOUBLE lYNCAING
IN H00sIER STATE
Two Negroes Who Killed a White
Man Are Hanged by
a Mob.
COMMITTED A BRUTAL MURDER
founded Thcir victim to Death with y
Club With Nall In tho End of It.
Punishment Quickly Fol-
lows Crime.

Jim Henderson and Bud Rowlands, who
waylaid, brutality murdered and robbed
| Hollie Simons, a white barber, early
| yesterday morning, We're lynched In the
Jail yard by mob Of 1000 frenzied oiti-
zens last night. The negroes were ar
rested early. and. although Rowlands'
clothing had blood stains on it, the men
Gained they were innocent of the crime.
In the meantime Sheriff Clemens of
Union county, Kentucky, arrived with
a trained bloodhound, in response to
telegraphic summons.
When the dog was placed on the
trail he followed it until he reached the
house where Rowlands lived, six blocks
from the scene of the murder and went
baying to the bed the negro had occu-
| pied. This was enough for the excited
/ citizens. Within a few minutes mob
of thousand bowling, bloodthirsty
citizens, with sledsehammers, ropes and
guns, were running to the Jail.
| Sheriff Anderson and his two depu-
| ties made a 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 a room and placed under
guard, but he stoutly refused to give
| up the keys or tell where the prisoners
We're hidden.
Battered Down tho Wall.
4 Failing to get the keys, the mob
made determined but unsuccessful
attempt to break in the Jail door. BY
this time the would-be lynchers We're
in perfect frenzy, and. securing TEL
egraph pole, they used 1T as a battering
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 courtyard, 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 swiftly hung the confessed muir
derer to a tree and riddled his body
| with bullets.
| Leaving the body of Rowlands 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 s,edges
some one in the crowd fired on she ter
rified negro crouched in the corner of
the cell. A few moments more and the
| door of the cell was broken in. The
negro, more dead than alive was
dragged at q ropes end to the cours
house yard and swung on the tree be-
side the body of Rowlands.
| Firing party volley at the swinging
bodies. the mob, eager for another VIC
tim, hurried away to catch the other
negro Implicated by Rowlands in his
confession. He was found at hotel,
| where he was employed as porter.
The negro escaped to the roof of tho
| 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.
| Committed Brutal Murder.
| The negro's victim, Simons, was way
laid and murdered in the most brutal
manner one square from the main
street of the city, as he was going to
his home from his barber shop, at 9
o'clock this morning. AS was GUS
tomary with him, he carried the re-
oeipts of the day at the place of bust
| ness.
The negroes were aware of this vi
IDENTIFY laid the plans accordingly.
1 Crouching behind fence, they
awaited their victim and jumped from
| their place of concealment and at
tackled him from behind, striking him
over the head with a heavy club with
a large nail driven into the end of it.
Although terribly beaten Simons made
Il desperate fight, and his cries and
struggles soon attracted two boys who
went to his assistance, but they were a
moment too late. The victim of the
two negroes had succumbed to the ter
rible beating and was lying dead at
their feet. The murderers then drove
the woad-be rescuers away and ac-
complished their original dsign-that
of robbery-s securing a bag containing
something over $40 from the PROSTATE
from of their victim, and made their
escape.