Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-03-26
Pullman Porter W, H, Wallace
Outraged an Old Lady
"a JUNTA SCENE OF CRIME.
THE Piend Was strung Up to n Te'e-
graph Pole aud Then hiddied
with Bullets

IA mnta, Colo, March 25,--W' H.
wallace. negro sleeping car porter
vas ynched at o'clock tonight IN
oorner Of the courthouse square, be-
ing hanged to an electric light pole
nv A bowling mob of 1900 people, who
had been Gercely hunting for him all
dav After the hanging the body OF
,he 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, and
died protesting his innocence.
Mrs. Henrietta II, Miller a gray
haired woman, aged ST. going from Los
Angeles Cal. to Denver, to visit rela-
tIves was brutally assaulted In the
Santa Re railroad yards here between
10 and II o'clock last night by wal.
lace. The assault was one OF the most
brutal crimes ever committed IN ms
vicinity, and the aged victim was lett
for dead in an isolated section OF the
cIty By her fendlsh assailant,
Mrs. Miller arrived last night In
tourist car on train No. 2, known as the
california limited, running between
Los Angeles and Chicago. The tram
arrived here at 1890 o'clock. Mrs. MIL
Ter got of the train intending to leave
for Denver at 1875 this morning, See
ing negro In a Pullman porters uni
form, she asked him where the Denver
sleeper was. He said he would show
her the car. and she walked with him
through the railroad yards for u con-
siderable distance. Finally she told
her companion she would go back TO
the depot. He struck her on the head
with his fist, telling her, partly stun
ned, and then carried her to an Ice
house nearby.
AS soon as Mrs. Miller had recov-
cred somewhat she began to struggle
violently in her efforts to release her
self The negro struck her several
times on the head, and then, to stop
any possible cutlery, placed his fingers
upon her throat until she ceased her
struggling and lay like one dead
About ~ o'clock Mrs Miller recov-
cred consciousness. She was stiff with
cold and so badly wounded that she
could hardly walk. she could not ut
Ter sound above whisper, so cruelty
had she been choked. She crawled back
10 the depot following the railroad
tracks so that she might not become
lost
Reaching the long depot platform,
we fell In swoon and lay there when
discovered by one of the railroad men,
She was picked up and carried into the
depot and restoratlyes hastily applied.
The police were Immediately notified
and doctors summoned.
Under the skillful treatment of the
physicians Mrs. Miller soon recovered
enough to tell the awful story OF her
assault She gave a minute descrip-
ton Of her assailant. This descrlp-
tlon was recognized by the railroad
men as fitting W. II. Wallace, Pull
man car porter who runs between Den
yer and La Junta, stopping In this city
from 945 at night. when he arrived,
until noon the next day.
The bloodhounds from Canyon City
were put on the trail Of the brute,
After shifting the ground few min
utes the leader gave low bark and
started off at a rapid gait. The trail
led directly to the Pullman car, where
Porter Wallace was arrested,
Fearing a lynching Sheriff Farr de-
clded to take the negro TO Pueblo.
When his intention became known,
however, the railroad employees declar-
ed that he could not travel by rail, as
they would refuse to operate a train
out Of La Junta with Wallace on board,
The sheriff placed his prisoner In a car
rlage and started for Sugar City, on
the Missouri Pacific, twenty miles
north.
AT that place he was too late to catch
the train for Pueblo, and then decided
TO drive through. Meantime an armed
Iarty had left La Junta TO oyertake
the sheriff and prisoner. The carriage
vas finally overhauled at Patterson