The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-26
HANG NEGRO IN CITY
COLORADO CITIZENS CHASE SHER-
IFF AND PRISONER. AND BRING
BACK ACCUSED MAN
WOMEN AWAIT THE RETURN
Scores Shoot Black Accused of As
sauIt on Aged woman Before
His Body Is Drawn Clear
of the Ground.

Wallace, a negro sleeping car porter
was lynched at o'clock tonight in a
corner of the courthouse square. being
hung to an electric pole by bowling
mob of 1000 persons, who had been hunt
ing 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 at
tempt to save him from the mob The
prisoner made no resistance to the lynch
Ing. and died protesting his innocence.
Mrs Henrietta H. Miller, aged sixty
seven, going from Los Angeles, Cal, to
Denver, to visit relatives, was brutallv
assaulted in the Santa Fe railroad yards
here last night by a negro porter on
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 platform where
the Denver sleeper was located. 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 bv a blow
on the head and after a struggle with
her assailant, was choked into insensi-
bility. When she regained consciousness
about an hour later. she went to the
station and gave an account of the as
ScNHib anu q GSoEAl DlICil u IitT dSSdlAdDI.
Trailed by BIoodhOunds.
Washington II. Wallace the Pullman
car porter, who runs between Denver and
this city, stopping here on each run
from 9:45 at night until noon the follow
ing day. was arrested in the car of
which = had charge. He was identified
by Mrs. Miller. Bloodhounds We're
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 lynching, Sheriff Farr de-
cided to take the prisoner to Pueblo.
When his intention became know how
ever the railroad employees declared that
he could not travel by rail, as they
would refuse to operate the train out Of
La Junta with Wallace on board. The
sheriff placed his prisoner III a carriage
and started for Sugar City, on the Mis-
souri, 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 prisoner
The carriage was finally overtaken at
Patterson hollow, midway between
Rocky Ford and Manzanola Sheriff FAIR
made no resistance, and Wallace did not
ask for mercy. The carriage was turned
back toward La Junta. Passing through
Rocky Ford the mob was joined by $50
men of that town. La Junta was reach
ed about o'clock, and there thousands
of men, women and children, many from
the surrounding country were waiting.
A peace element endeaVCred to stop
the proposed lynching and a committee
Of prominent citizens asking the privi
lege of trying to get from Wallace q
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 We're lock-
ed and that the committee would try
TO prevent a lynChinS. Immediately pande-
monium reigned. Stones were hurled at
the building until every window was
All Efforts of No Avail
Then, with a telegraph pole for a bat
tering ram, the crowd broke in the doors
and Wallace was taken out. Mayor Sa-
bin made a speech to the crowd, Coun-
selling them to let the law take it's course.
He was listened 10 quietly, but as soon
as he finished the crowd moved down
the street dragging the negro by a rope.
A boy was sent up 4 telegraph pole
with rope. 1t was thrown over the
crOssbar and then dropped into the
crowu. hundred hands grasped it and
in an instant the negro was in the air.
Hardly had the boy climbed cst of dan
ger when hundreds of pistols were drawn,
and before the Negroes body reached the
top OF the pole il was riddleG with bull
let's and the negro was dead.
At late hour tonight the body had
not been taken down. The coroner lives
at Rocky Ford.
Sheriff Farr said tonight that Wallace
steadfastly maintained his innocence, but
the police declare that when they ar
rested him in his car there was blood
and gray hairs on his clothing. and
other evidence which satisfied them he
was the guilty man.
Wallace lived with his wife on Law
renee street in Denver, They had no
children. He Is said to have come from
Sedalia, Mo, and had been employed by
the railroad company for several years
The Denver police declare that he has
no police record so far as they know.