The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
SAVED BY WOMAN
Sam Roberts, a Cook, Suspended
by the Neck.
Mrs. Andell With Shot Gun to
the Rescue.
STANDS OFF A MOB.
While She Cuts the Rope From
Victims Neck.
She Then Summons His Friends
to Help Her.

Kenosha, Wis, jan 7.-Standing off
an infuriated mob of $50 men with a
shotgun, Mrs Sarah Andell, wife of
John Andell, boarding house Keeper
at Twin Lakes, in the western part of
Kenosha county, cut the rope with
which Sam Roberts, cook at an ice
cutting camp. had been swung to a
rafter in an ice house, just in time to
save the man from death by strangu-
lation. The attempt to lynch Roberts
followed a quarrel between union and
nonunion men in which it was charged
that the mob's intended victim was
''Scab.'
AS soon as she had freed Roberts
neck from the moose about it Mrs.
Anden screamed for aid. About thirty
friends of the mob's victim rushed to
his rescue and after desperate battle
rescued him, more dead than alive
Roberts was hurried to the Andell
home and was later sent to Mi1wau-
kee, where it was found that three of
his ribs had been broken and that his
body was a mass of bruises as the
result of the rough treatment he had
received at the hands of his enemies
Labor Dispute Arouses.
The attempted lynching was the cul-
mination of fierce labor struggle. A
controversy had arisen between the
ting camps of Knickerbocker Ice COM
pany of Chicago. in one of which Rob-
erts was cook, with the result that the
company, through Timekeeper Bennett,
discharged large number of men.
The discharged men gathered in a
saloon and vowed vengeance on the
nonunion workers still employed. At
the height of their resentment an angry
ice cutter noticed Roberts in the place.
With a cry of "scab'' he rushed at the
0nO fell
turned, as one man, upon Roberts, bore
him to the floor and administered a
terrible beating as he lay PROSTATE.
| When the fury was at its worst some
one shouted Hang him. In an in
Stant rope had been produced and a
running moose made on one end, which
was slipped about the neck of the half
insensible cook. The mob then rushed
the prisoner to a nearby ice. house.
where the free end of the rope was
| insults were hurled at the intended vic
| tim.
Prayer Brings Help.
All but paralyzed with fear, Rob-
| ertS muttered a plea for permission to
pray, and when it was granted shout
ed a pitiful appeal for mercy. Mrs.
Andell, who had seen the man taken
/ to the icehouse, heard his cries and.
| seizing her husbands shotgun. dashed d
| into the big building just as Roberts
| was hung clear of the floor. Driving
the mob before her and away from
Roberts, she rushed to the swinging
man and cut the rope by which he
was suspended with knife she had
concealed in her dress.
Still holding the would-be slayers at
bay Mrs. Andell called loudly for help
and Roberts friends and officers of
the ice company responded. A mad
fight in which pike poles and clubs
were used followed and more than a
score were injured before Roberts was
| finally rescued.
The riot and attempted lynching
was, reported to District Attorney
Baker here. He has ordered the ar
rest of the mob leaders, but reports
from Twin Lakes say all are believed
to have left for Chicago. 1t is said
the company officials know the names
of most of the men involved.