Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1911-09-07
Mob Visited Idaho County Jail Early Friday Morning Overpowered
Officers and Riddle WfeBeater With Bullets.
RETR|BUT|N SLOW BUT SURE -MALLCKS CRIME SHOCKING
Beat His Wife Within Inch Her Life Last une-Was Danger
Man and Had the Community Terrorized L

Justice was dealt out SummArlly
to Peter Mallick, the half-breed
Indian who beat his wife to with b an
inch Of her life on July second, early
Friday morning, when a mob visited
the Idaho county Jail, overpow cred
the officers, sought out Mallick and
riddled his body with bullets as he
lay on the bunk in his cell. Mallick,
it will be recalled, brutally assaulted
his wife, a highly educated as well as
respected woman of French and Nez
Perce parentage, at their home ten
miles from Grangeville July 2. He was
accompanied to the scene of the crime
by one Jess Swan, a white man who
has not the best of a reputation and
while there is no evidence which
shows that Swan was a party tp the
affair other than that he stood by and
allowed the brute to beat his wife for
some time, feeling had been rurl ming
high and at the time of the commission
of the crime Mallick was spirited
away to Lewiston for safe keeping.
Every Precaution Used by Officers.
At the preliminary hearing Mallick
was brought from Lewiston to Cotton
wood in an auto, Sheriff Overman
taking this method in order to frus-
trate any attempt on the part of a
mob to get hold of him. Swan was
taken over from Grangeville by a
special deputy and the time and the
place Of the preliminary examination
was kept from the public. The In
dian was returned the. same day tt
Lewiston and placed in the Nekperct
county jail until court convened ir
Grangeville when he with the Other
Idaho county prisoners, was br ought
up from Lewiston, a week ago Sunday
by order of the court.
While there was some talk of lynch
ing when the crime was committed
just two months ago, there has beer
no such rumor for some time and il
was generally supposed that the law
would be allowed to take its course
Last Thursday evening Sheriff
Overman and Judge Steele, in dis
cussing the matter of Mallick's i'm
prisonment here, were both Of TIN
opinion that there was no danger Q
mob and it was decided to keep hin
here until the argument of a motion
for change of venue was made b.
: his attorney, Clay McNamee Nor
+ than ordinary precaution had bee
n taken by Sheriff Overman to guar,
d his prisoner, Jailer Mclean VIII
: sleeps at the jail at night, being pre-
y vided with an assistant in the perso
f of Charles Waldum. Waldu N wa
instructed to examine the cells severa
n times each night as we'll as to max
|. occasional trips around the outside {
= the Jail.
JaiIers Look Down Pistol Barrels.
I The morning of the lynching Wa
r dunn, who had examined the eel
|. about an hour before the arrival {
the crowd, was sitting in the Jail offio
IS when hearing slight noise GU tside
4 stepped out to take survey of I'll
/, surroundings. He had no soont
Is stepped out than he was covered wit
three guns and ordered to throw u
his hands. Waldum did so and W,
then ordered to step off the sidewall
. He was kept covered while four 9TH
:. = men rushed the outer door to the ia
" " and met Jailer Mclean, who upc
= y hearing the noise had jumped fro
.e n his bed and made an effort to bolt tt
e g door. Mclean was covered by Il
u =, four men and his hands ordered u
- The command by one of the four
''hands up was followed with I
the caution to Mclean to "keep the
IS up old man" and that it would So
u. be over.
90 &c Indian Dies With Oath on Lips.
,c- As Mclean and Waldrpm W.
It. kept covered another man darted il
the Jail office, secured the Keys to
n, cell room, jerked the telephone recei,
al from the hook and meeting four
on five others in the Jail CORR dor, p
le- ceeded to unlock the door and enter
the Jail proper. A search was I'M
tuted at once by the Gro wd in
os. cell from, fash lights being used
,m locate Mallick. The cell Of Chamb
lain was visited first and be was