Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-03-27
NEGRO LYNCHEC> - :
A COLORADO :
w. H. Wallace, a Pullman G..
Porter, Strung Up at
Lajunta.
ASSAULTED OLD WOMAN
Positively Identified by His Victim
Strongly Protested Innocence.
But CircumstantiaI Evil
dence Was Strong.

Lajunta, Colo. March 27.-W. H.
was lynched at o'clock last night in
a corner of the court house square.
He was hanged to an electric pole by
a bowling mob of 1000 people, who
had been wildly hunting for him all
day.
After the hanging the body of the
negro was riddled with bullets.
Wallace had been kept out of town
all day by Sheriff Farr in an attempt
to save him from the mob. The prisoner
made no resistance TO the lynching, ana
died protesting his innocence.
Mrs. Henrietta II. Miller, a gray
haired woman, aged ST. gong from Los
Angeles, Cal, to Denver to visit rela-
tives. was brutality assaulted in the
Santa Fe railroad yards here Monday
night by Wallace, who was porter on
Pullman car running between Den
Yer and I.ajunta.
After leaving the Chicago limited
train here Mrs. Miller asked porter
whom she met on the station platform
where the Denver sleeper was. The
man offered to conduct ner to the car.
After going with him a considerable
distance Mrs Miller became suspicious
and started to return to the station.
She was then Knocked down by blow
on the head, and after a struggle with
her asailant was checked into insensi-
bility.
When she regained consciousness,
about an hour later, she crawled back
to the station and gave an account Of
the assault and description of her as
sailant
Washington II. Wallace, a Pullman
car porter, Who runs between Denver
and this city, was arrested in the car
of which he had charge.
He was identified by Mrs Miller
iBloodhounds We're brought from Can.
yon City, and they traileel the man who
accompanied Mrs Miller through the
yards to the car in which Wallace was
found
Eight assaults have occurred here In
the past few months, and it is believed
that all We're committed by one man.
Mrs. Mlller's condition is critical.
rearing lynching, Sheriff Farr de-
c1ded to take the prisoner to Pueblo.
When his intention became known,
however the railroad employees de-
cared that he could NOT travel by rail,
as they would refuse to operate the
Train out of Laiunta with Wallace on
board
The sheriff placed his prisoner in a
carriage, and started for Sugar City.
on the Missouri Pacific. twenty miles
north.
At that place he was too lata ~
catch the train for Pueblo, ard then
decided to drive through In tho maan-
time an armed party had left +. ainnto
to overtake the sheriff and prisoner.
The carriage was finn1lv ovnrtaLan
at Patterson Hollow midway ha+Svaa,,
Rocky Ford and ManzanoI.,
Sheriff Farr made no resistance and
Wallace did not ask for mercy rrba
carriage was turned back toward Ia
Passing through Rocky Enra +ha
mob was Joined by 900 men of that
town,
Lajunta was reached at = o,clock
where thousands Of men women and
children. MANY from the snrronndine
country awaited them naaca aia9
ment endeayored TO sion tha nrnnosal
lynching. and COMMITTEES cnnsistina
Of Robert Patterson. banker. DR.
Fleming Charles T., Dearhorna coi,n.
ty treasurer. and other nrominent citi-
zens. asked the nriyilega of irvine To
get from Wallace confession This
was granted. and the negro was taken
into the court house After h.1f an
hour or so inc word vent ont that
the court house doors We're locked and
that the committee wolld try To nra-
vent a lynchins.
Immediatalv nandemonium reiened
stones were hurled at the hmi,ding nm.