The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-28
HANG EDITORS EFFIGY AGAIN
Crowd That Blocks Street Cheers
Lynchers and Pelts Figures-An-
other Hanging in Brooklyn.

New York Sun, Sept. 20.-W. r. Hearst
of the New York Journal, was hanged in
effigy early yesterday in east New York
for the second time this week. Last Mon
day straw figure of Hearst was cut
down from a walnut tree at Cleveland
and Jamaica avenues, where 1t had been
jeered and stoned fer forty-e1ght hours,
because the crowd feared that the po-
lice would destroy the efiigy before ar
rangements could he completed to burn
it. On Wednesday evening the effigy
was hanged again a block away. but the
police got around early yesterday MORN
ing and themselves burned 1T. A figure
of Emma Goldman was strung up beside
that of Hearst at the second hanging
and it, too, was burned by the police.
When first hanged the Hearst efrgy
was surrounded almost continuously by
a crowd which stoned and pokef sticks
at it, Pas ing drivers stru it with their
whips ar,l motormen stopped their cars
to see the punishment. After the word
got around that the police, who had
seemed in Indifferent were convinced that
TIE affair had better come to a stop, the
firure was hustled to a hiding place un-
I'll it could be burned at the stake.
On Wednesday night straw figure of
a woman, wearing straw sailor, black
skirt and a white waist, was rugged up
and both effigies hanged from the limb
of tree at Ashford street and Jamaica
avenue, block away from the scene of
the first hanging. The effigy lynchers
We're presentable looking crowd. The
neighbcrhood is built up with small de-
tached houses with trim little gardens in
front and rear. A number of women
and girls were in the crowd. Nobody
seemed to take the affair as an idle lark.
but ra tller as serious business. Some
of the girls tried to pull on the rope that
held the effigies, but there were SO many
men and they were so earnestly enesO.t-
ic about the job, that the girls finally
stood aside and contented themselves
with hand -clapping. The crowd cheereo
and threw decayed fruit and other mis-
siles at the effigies
Both figures were stuffed with straw
That which was supposed to represent
Hearst was dressed in a suit Of blue and
attached to 1t was a placard with the
words: willie Hearst, Red Journal"
An old derby completed the costume.
The other figure had been placarded:
Emma Goldman. Anarchist" Another
placard, a paraphrase of a term often
used by the Journal to beMttle President
Mckinley, hung between the efhgies. The
double hanging attracted such a crowd
as almost to block the Jamaica avenue
trolley cars. The police helped the cere-
away.
Tht programme of the lynchers was to
cut down the efhgieS last evening and
burn them at the stake. The Liberty
avenue police spoiled that plan by ap-
pearing in force early yesterday MORN
ing and cutting the figure down. That of
Emma Goldman struck policeman and
knocked him fiat
He got up and licked the Hearst emgy
into q vacant lot to get even. Then the
police pulled some Of the straw out OF
the figure and burned them without the
formaNty OF tying them to q stake.
In BEDFORD avenut, near Monroe street
Brooklyn, an eflgy of Hearst was hang
ed from an electric light pole at 9