The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-23
MOB COT HIM.
A Negro Hanged in the Streets
of Pueblo, Col.
For the Murder of Two Young
White Girls.
LYNCHING PLANNED
Before Arrival From Denver
Where He Was Arrested.
officers Removed Charges From
Pistols to Avoid Accidents.
Many Well Dressed Women in
the Crowd.
LYNCHING PLANNED

Pueblo. Col, May 29.-Calvin Kimb-
lern, the negro who shot and killed two
young white girls and seriously wound
ed his wife early Sunday morning was
lynched at 1:33 this morning by an ang-
ry mob of !. 500. Kimblern was captured
yesterday afternoon in Denver and
brought here by the officers this morn
ing.
Five minutes after the murderer
reached Pueblo on a Denver & Rio
Grande train this morning his almost
naked corpse was being dragged
through the streets by as many men as
could lay hands on the rope around his
neck, followed by a. bowling mob of at
least 8, 600 people. Not the slightest at
tempt to protect the prisoner was made
by the half dozen officers having him in
charge. In fact they had drawn tie
charges from their reVo1vers lest by any
chance blood should be shed in a. feint
at resisting the mob. AS the train pull
ed into the Eighth street depot, Kimb-
lern was pushed helpless out of the
| front end of the smoking car and into
the very hands of the mob. A moose
was cast about his neck. Many hands
at once seized it.
Kimblern made but the slightest at
| tempt at resistance. Heavy steel
manacleS bound his wrists and he was
| helpless He was dragged face down
/ tightened about his neck and he was
| undoubtedly dead before he was hanged
| to telegraph pole two blocks from the
| depot. Twice the rope broke after the
! body had been hauled up but the third
/ attempt at hanging was successful.
After the body had been allowed to
| dangle in the air, a few minutes the
rope was cut and the corpse was
| dragged half a block further the crowd
| clamoring for fire to burn the corpse.
Mayor West, in the center of the throng.
eXhOrted them to disperse but his words
were unheeded by many. Long after
the more respectable element in the
| crowd had gone home, or stood upon the
outskirts, boys and young men danced
! about the remains, thrusting Senseless
indignities upon them and insisting that
| the man was not dead. They stripped
| him to the waist and a man who claim
ed to be a doctor said that his heart was
still beating. The mob tore the clothes
| from him. threw a cloth around his
naked loins. then they hooked the man
acleS into one of the spikes on the side
| of a pole, where the body was again
| hanged up. The body was finally taker
to the morgue late this morning.
The rough treatment had almost tori
one side of Kimblerns face from his
skull. The moose had cut deeply into
the neck and blood splashed his cloth.
ing. Apparently in the melee which at
tended his capture from the train some.
body either moved by mercy or impelleC
| ny d u6blIG " dUQ d personal aIrOc1JY tt
the tragedy, struck the negro a blow OF
the side of the head with sledge ham
mer infiicting 6, wound which must nav,
caused instant Inconsistencies
There were many well dressed wome1
in the mob.
On the journey from Denver. Kimb
lern was fully aware of the fate tina
awaited him here but he retained hi
composure and smoked, or slept rauci
of the time. The autopsy held on tr
bodies of the two young girls whom h
killed on Sunday morning revealed tn
fact that the negro had violated hi
victims before shooting them.