The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26

 IN COLORADO IA Negro Hanged by Mob in La Junta. BODY RIDDLED WITH LEAD Pullman Car Porter Had Com.
 mitted an Assault. Prominent Citizens of the Town Alt tempted to Prevent the Negro's
 Execution, But the Mob
 Was Determined.
BODY RIDDLED WITH LEAF

Pueblo, Colo, Mafcn so.-A Speciat iroh La Junta says:
 w H. Wallace, a negro sleeping cal porter. was lynched at o'clock tonight in a corner of the court house square a mob of A. 900 people who had been hunt. ing for him all day. After the hanging the body of the negro was riddled by 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 nc resistance to tho lynching and died pro- testing his innocence.
 Mrs. Henrietta H. Miller. aged e7 years going from Los Angeles. Cal. to Dem yer, to visit relatives. was assaulted in the Santa Fe Railroad yards here last night by q negro porter on Pullman cal running between Denver and La Junta
 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 her 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 choked into insensihility. When she regained consciousness, about an hour later. she crawled back to the station and gave an account of the assault and a description of her assaiiant.
 Washington H. Wallace, Pullman por- ter. who runs between Denver and this city, stopping here On each run from s:4; o'clock at night until noon the follow ing day. was arrested In the car of wbicf he. had charge. He was identified by Mrs Miller Bloodhounds were brought from Canyon City and they trailed 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 were committed by one man. Mrs. Miller's condition is critical.
 Fearing a lynching. Sheriff Farr de- cided to take the prisoner to Pueblo. When his intention became known. how ever, the railroad employees declared that he could not travel by rail .as they would refuse to operate the train out of La Jun ta with Wallace on board. The sheriff placed his prisoner in carriage 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 party had left La Junta to overtake the sheriff and pris- oner The carriage was finally over taken at Patterson Hollow. midway be- tween Rockyford and Manbanola. Sher- iff Farr made no resistance, and Wallace did not ask for mercy. The carriage was turned back toward La Junta.
 Passing through Rockyford. the mob was joined by 800 men of that town. La Junta was reached about o'clock. where thousands of men, women and children. many from the surrounding country, awaited them.
 A peace element eudeaVored to stop the proposed lynchlng, and d committee con sisting of Robert Patterson. banker: Dr.. Fleming, Charles Dearborne County Treasurer, and other prominent citizens. asked the privilege of trying to get from Wallace a confession. This was granted and the negro was taken into the court house. After half an hour or so. the word went out that the court house doors were locked. and that the committee would try to prevent a lynching.
 Immediately pandemoninm reigned Stones were hurled at the building until every window was broken. Then with a telegraph pole for battering ram. the crowd broke in the doors and Wallace was taken out. Mayor Sabin made a speech to the crowd. counselling them to let the law take it's course. He was lis tened to- but as soon as he finished. the crowd moved down the streets. dragging the negro by rope. A boy was sent up a telegraph pole with the rope. It was thrown over the cross bar and then drop ped into the crowd A hundred hands grasped 1t, and in an instant the negro was in the air. Hardly had the boy climbed out of danger when hundreds of pistols were drawn, and before the negro's body reached the top of the pole. it was riddled with bullets and the man was dead.
 At late hour tonight the body had not been taken down. The coroner lives at Rockyford.
 Sheriff Farr said tonight that Wallace steadfastly maintained his innocence, but the police declare that when they arrest ed him in his car there were blood and gray hairs on his clothing and other evil denoe which satisfied him he was the guilty man. Wallace lived with his wife at 1257 Lawrence Street. Denves. He is said to have come here from Seladia Mo. and has been employed by the railroad company for several years.
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