The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-05-31
Rope Broke Twice as Victim
Begged Mercy.
RAILROAD TRACKS BL0CkADED TO
PREVENT ESCAPE.
The Negro Had Brutally Murdered and
Outraged Two Little White Girls
and Nearly Killed His Wife.

end OF a rope for 200 yards, and after
the rope had broken twice while the
struggling and yelling negro was be-
ing pulled up. Calvin kimblern. muir
derer, was lynched at 1:30 O'Clock
this morning.
Three thousand people watched the
death struggles and finally the last
witches, and then the shouting and
yelling that at first drowned the ne
gro 5 voice died away in silence.
Affairs had been at fever heat in
Pueblo all evening. 1t was pretty
we'll known Just when the officers
were going to bring back the murder
er from Denver. Their movements
were announced from the telegraph
office and frequent bulletins kept
everybodyposted.
At 1870 O'Clock last night IL report
was current that the officials of the
Rio Grande Railroad had issued or
ders to rush all trains past the Eighth
street station without stopping. A
pile of ties , feet high WAS quickly
placed on the tracks lust north OF the
depot, and warning was sent To the
dispatchp to notify the engineers OF
all trains that they must he brought
to standstill and search permit
ted.
The first train down soon after was
freight The red lanterns were
swung across the track and the train
stopped. \ dozen men jumped on
the engine and asked if the prisoner
had been brought in on the train
They were assured that he had not
The crowd was not satisfied. insist
ing on searching every ear but the
negro was not found.
The ties were then removed and the
train allowed to proceed. This was
kept up until the arrival of the Rio
Grande train at 1:15 O'Clock. The
mob of determined citizens, being told
that kimblern was on board. at once
surrounded the train at the Eighth
street. depot, overpowered the officers
and took the negro from the train
Putting Il rope around his neck,
the lynchers dragged him to the cor
ner OF Eighth and Santa Fe avenre,
a distance of about three blocks. The
rope was quickly put across tele-
graph pole, diagOnally opposite the
Grand Hotel and the negro was
strung up. The rope broke twice
but the third attempt was success
full.
After the body had been allowed to
dangle i'll the air n few minutes the
rope was cut and the corpse dragged
half a block further, the crowd clam
oring for fire to burn the corpse.
Mayor West. III the center of the
thrOng, eXhOrted them to disperse.
but his words were UNDECIDED by
many. Long after the more respect
a ble element in the crowd had gone
home or stood upon the outskirts.
boys and young men danced about
the remains, thrusting senseless in
digniries upon them and insisting
that the man was not dead. They
stripped him to the waist and a man
who claimed to be doctor said that
his heart was still beatin"
The mob tore the clothes from him.
tied cloth around his naked loins.
then they hooked the manacles into
one of the spikes on the side of pole
when the body was again hanged up.
The body was finally taken to the
morgue late this morning.
The rough treatment had almost
torn one side of kimblera' : face from
his skull. The moose had cut deeply
into the neck and blood splashed his
clothing. Apparently in the melee
which attended his capture from the
train somebody. either moved by
mercy or impelled by desire TO add
a personal atrocity TO the tragedy.
struck the negro blow on the side
of the head with a sledge hammer,
inlicting a wound which must have
caused instant unconsciousnesS.
There were many well-lressed wo-
men iii the mob
kimblern's crime was the brutal
murder of two little girls in Erie
Orphan Home. in this city. last Sun
day morning. when he also nearly
killed his wife.
On the journey from Denver Kim
blern was fully aware of the fate that
awaited him here. but he retained his