Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-03-28
4 COLORADO LYNCHING
Pullman Car Porter Hanged by a
HOwling Mob.
OUTRAGED eRAYHAlRED WOMAN

Peaceful Element Locked Negro In
Court House, But Mob stormed the
Building and Secured Victim-5ody
Was RiddIed With Bullets.
La Junta. Colo, March 26.-W. H. \
Wallaces a Pullman sleeping car Dor- /
ter. was lynched at 8 o'clock last |
night in a corner of Court House |
SQUARE. being hanged to an electric |
J H,ght pole by a bowling mob of 1000 |
perscns. who had been hunting for
/ him all day After the hanging the
body of the negro was riddled with
bullets. The prisoner made no resist
aice to the lynching and died protest.
ing his innocence.
! Mrs. Henrietta Miller, a grayhaired
woman. aged 81 years, going from Los
Angeles, Cal. to Denver to visit rela-
i tives. was brutally assaulted in the
Santa Fe railway yards here Monday
night by a negro porter on a Pullman
car running between Denver and La
Junta
. After leaving the Chicago limited
train here, Mrs. Miller asked a porter
whom she met on the station plat
form where the Denver sleeper was.
The man offered to conduct her to
the car. After going with him con-
] siderable distance, Mrs. Miller be.
+ dame suspicious and started to return
) to the station. She was then knocked
down by a blow on the head, and after
Il struggle with her assailant was
: ,hoked into insensibility. When she
iegained consciousness about an hour
! later she crawled back to the station
, and gave an account Of the assault and
3 Il description of her assailant Wash
l .ngton II. Wallace. a Pullman car por
' Ter, was arrested in the car Of which
j he had charge. He was identified by
e Mrs. Miller. Bloodhounds were brought
( from Canyon City, and they traileC
the man who accompanied Mrs. Miliei
through the yards to the car in which
n Wallace was found.
. Fearing a lynching. Sheriff Farr de
= cided to take the prisoner to Pueblo
n When his intention became known tn
] railway employees declared that h
v could not travel by rail, as they woul'
I
q Junta with Wallace on board Tn
4. sheriff placed his prisoner in a cal
hi F'riage and started for Sugar City
10 Meantime an armed party had left L
10 Junta to overtake the sheriff and hi
v prisoner. The carriage was fnall
ID overtaken. and Sheriff Farr made n
resistance and Wallace did not as
for mercy. The carriage was turne
49, back toward La Junta A peace ell
y ment asked the privilege Of trying
get a confession from Wallace. TIL
was granted and the negro was take
into the court house. After half a
n hour or so the word went out that tn
- court house doors were locked, an
=. that the committee would try to pr
vent iynching Immediately pand
n. monium reigned. Stones were hurlC
- at the building until every window W;
~ broken. Then, with a telegraph pc
- for a battering ram, the crowd brol
- in the doors and Wallace was TAXI
~ out.
49, A boy was sent up a telegraph pc
80 with a rope It was thrown over t
H. cross-bar and then dropped into t
N crowd. A hundred hands grasped
and in an instant the negro was in t
air Hardly had the boy climbed O
of danger, when hundreds Of pist'
ler were drawn, and before the negr'
oD body reached the top of the pole
tue was riddled with bullets and the m
was dead.
~ Sheriff FAIR said last night that W
eiu lace steadfastly declared his in
! cence. But the police claim that VII
IN he was arrested there was blood a
leA gray hairs on his clothing and OIL
1ne evidence which convinced them he v
~ the guilty man.