The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-02
LEBERC LYNCHEp
MOB OF MASKED MEN HANG DIES
PERATE MURDERER.
At THE LAS ANiMAs JAIL

llynchinD Party Made UP OF D'sc''
pIined Men Under leadership
Sheriff and Force overpowcred and
Disarmed.
Dcnvcr.---A Republican special from
Las AnimnB, Colorado. Thursday nigh.
says: Infatuated by the nendieshnesl
)f the crime and by their failure to
lynch Iceberg last night. nifty maskc |
non. heavily armed. tonight broke Into
tho JAIL Overpowcrcd Sheriff John ID.
Brown and two deputies. bound AMI
gagged them, and threw them into u
| cell.
| They then secured Lars Iceberg. the
murderer of Henry Lanvenmeyer. AMI
hung him to n telegraph pole In tn :
railroad yards nm hour after they at.
lacked the jail.
The lynching was done so quietly
that only those directly concerned In
tho hanging knew anything unusunl
was about to occur. and II was fully
an hour after the man was dead b."
fore tho people generally knew that
Iceberg had paid the penalty OF MS
| crime
| Tho diaorderly. lcndcrlcss mob oil
last night was transformed into n
| thoroughly disciplined body OF men un
| utI " W,'N
| obcyed with nlacrity. There was no
shouting. no shooting, no loud talking
nnd tn. mnn was secured from the jail
and taken out In less than an houi
from tho time the lynchcrs started To
make their way into the jail.
Tho men who melted out death 10
Lcbcrg met little resistance Mt thl
hands OF the peace officers. When TN !
mob arrived ut the Jail they sought
these officers and before they could
offcr resistance they were helpless.
While II Is believed that Iceberg wa,
insane. the feeling against the man
was so Intense that the avcngeri
would not risk his being declared In
sane by he courts, 80 that the murder
OF tho popular farmer would 20 I'M
avenged.
Nothing can be learned as to the
identity II the men who tonight toop
Justice into their own hands. but II II
generally believed that they vert
close friends OF the murdered farmc,
and from the section where the de
ceased lived and where the ntrocioul
crime was committed.
Tho people OF the city generally be
licved that the attempt to lynch l.c
berg had been given up. us during tins
day there were no demonstrations a
any sort against the man and ne
threats made openly that he would b.
made to pay the death penalty for HI!
fcndish crime.
Before Las Animas knew that tn,
man had been hanged, Iceberg had
been dead more than an hour.
Details OF the arrival OF the lynch
Ing party ut the Jail We're divulged b,
two negroes confined In the jail To-
petty offcnses,
Il was Just S:i5 when tho fifty men
completely armed. made their appear
ancc ut the jail and demanded OF INT
sheriff that the prisoner. Iceberg. b'
turned over TO them. The demand mel
with instaud refusal.
Without further words the leader
of the mob disarmcd and overpoworct
sheriff brown. Marshal McCunc ant
| undcrshcrin McAfrec.
The three men We're then gaSget
and bound. thrown into cell and len
there while the mob began the cfor
TO get Iceberg out OF the steel cage II
which he was confined.
The work OF the mob last night hat
made entrance to the Jail compare
lively easy. All that was left between
the mob end the prisoner was the stee
gaze. which the mob last night bat
tered III VAIN,
With the titty men was one who WI,
evidently well acquainted with thu
mechanism OF the lock on the stec
cage, The lock last night resisted al
efforts of the mob. but in few min
utcs tonight the locksmith OF the part,
managed to break II and effect an en-
trance to the cell OF Iceberg.
Whom The avengers arrived 1t tn,
iail Iceberg was In bed. when h
heard them he got up and dressed, ant
met them calmly aud allowed the lead
YRS to put y rope around his neck with
cut resistance
In thirty minutes, that Is nj s.i5
leherg was brought out of the cell
,nd the rope pu, around his neck, H,
was then led by the mob to telesrapi
No,e In the railroad yards about iSt
Yards nom the Jail.
Without evidence of excitement. ans
with absolutely no noise. the rope wa,
ho.s,cd orer an arm OF ts.s pole AM
Lchcrs was lcrkcd twenty feet on IN,
ground w twenty men.
Ne shsSs were tired AT the ho,ly. an
there WAS absolutely No other demon
Stration
While il Is believed hv siany tina
Lehers WIS insane. and that no ssrs
man coali have committed the erimi
eharsci aSains; him. the fserns rSi
50 hish among the friends q his vic
tim. who arC believed 10 have been TIT
rstn who composed the mob who hunt
I.eherg. Mat nothing would suisN
them cNeep, the melting out of sum
mary punishment