The Glenwood post., 1906-12-29
NEAR LYNCHIN6
FOR HORRIBLE MURDER IN BENT
COUNTY.
DRANK HIS VICTIMS BLOOD
Tramp From Cripple Creek Murders
Farmer Because He Was Refused
Lodg.ng-CalIs Himself an Anar-
chist and Glories in the Crime.

lodqing-Calls Himself an Anar-
chist and GIores in the Crime.
Denver.-A News special from Las
Animas Wednesday night says:
Confessing that he murdered Henry
Lanvermeyer, rich farmer, at Horse
| Creek, and boasting that he drank on
| the victims blood, Lars Iceberg, a
| tramp, on his way to California from
Cripple Creek, an hour after his arrest
this afternoon detied crowd Of clt-
| zens to lynch him, as they threatened
The prisoner declares himseF an
anarchist and expresses great satisfac-
tion over his deed, because the muir
dered man was land owner
Though cool-headed citizens pre-
vented the summary execution or tho
| man this afternoon, mob numbering
400 tonight at 10 o'clock made raid
| on the Jail and broke in two sides Oh
the walls and were at work wreckin4 >
| the steel cage In which Iceberg Is con-
| fined when Sheriff Brown and four
| deputies leveled guns and threatened
| to shoot if the mob did not leave at
| once. The command was obeyed, but
it is feared another attempt will be
| made before morning.
Iceberg was put off a train at Rob
| inson, he said in confession, and was
| driven by ]. H. Hill into Horse Creek
valley. He was afterward run out OF
grading camp and called at the home
| of George Purvis. There he demanded
| food and n bed, received the former,
| but was offered blankets and vacant
| room in an outside building, instead OF
the latter. He became indignant and
determined to burn Purvis' hay stacks.
| Instead he burned those Of Lanver'
| meyer.
Lanvermeyer gave chase on horse
back and caught the man a short dis
| tance away He took Iceberg into
custody and was leading him to town
| when they came upon closed fence
gate I.anvermeyer diSmounted to
open the gate and was turning toward
Iceberg to tie him to the horse when
| the latter grabbed a hammer WHICH
| Lanvermeyer carried struck the
| farmer over the head, knocking him un'
| conscious and, after robbing his vic.
| tim of s27 and gold watch and
pocket knife, slashed Lanvermeyer
| throat with the knife, drinking or the
| blood.
Mounting the dead mans horse Lee
berg rode aimlessly about trying TO
| find his way to town. In the meaRlme
| the murdered mans body was dis,
aroused and a search begun 1t was
| just after dayn this morning. five
| hours after the murder, that John
| Mariman met the man and offered to
| show him the way to town. Upon ar
| rival Iceberg was placed under arrest.
The prisoner talks wildly and acts(
as if demented. He said to Sheri1
| Brown:
"That man I killed had money. Peo-
| pie ought not to refuse to give poor
man food and good bed to sleep in.
I They wanted to give me blankets and
| a vacant room in an Clubhouse. Then l
| burned the haystacks to get even.
| That man was land owner. He tried
| to tie me on that horse. That made
| me mad | am an anarchist. l cut
| his throat and drank some of the
| blood. | tried to scalp him, but his
| hide was so tough | couldn't get it off.
| l feel better since did the job. am
| twenty-one years old
Sheriff Brown tried to take the
| prisoner to La Junta on the l O'Clock
| train this afternoon but crowd of $50
gathered about him and the prisoner
and became so threatening that they
| returned to the jail.
Iceberg says that he has father
| and mother in Sweden and that he
| came to this country in 1895. He
reached Cripple Creek several months
ago and worked there for a man
named Gallagher. He had quarrel
| with a man and was sentenced to
| termined to leave Colorado and
| wanted to get to California, but being
without funds was tramping it.