Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-09-22
Mob Travels by Auto from
Stillwell to Olathe to Hang
Bert Dudley.
rrREMEN USE HOSE.
AGAINST LYNCHERS
Ater Overpowering Sheriff, and Find
ing Officers Wife Had Thrown, Away
KEYS. Mob Raids Auto Shop for
Hammers to Batter Down Doors.

Olathe. KAN, Sept. 21.-Bert Dudley,
charged with the murder of Henry
Muller an aged German and his wife,
was taken from the Johnson county
iail here early today by a masked mob
and hanged to telephone pole. The
mob came to Olathe in motor cars
supposedly from near Stillwell, where
Muller had lived. Sheriff Lon Carroll
refused to give up Dudley and the
mob overpoweed him. They then bat
tered down three Jail doors. Several
shots we're fired, but none was hit.
The murder of which Dudley was
convicted last Tuesday was commit
ted near Stillwell, II miles southeast
of here, August 20. Dudley, who was
an ex-convict, was employed as a
farm hand and killed Muller because
of an alteration over a team of mules
which he wished to borrow to do some
road work Mrs. Muller was killed
when she asked Dudley what had be-
come of her husband.
The crime was not discovered for
several days. Dudley, after having
hid the bodies in an abandoned cellar.
lived at the Muller home with a boy
whom he had hired to aid il the farm
work. When he endeavored to sell a
load of wheat from the farm, an in
vestigation was started that led to
the discovery of the murder. The jury
which convicted him was out only Is
minutes.
Mob Well Organized.
The mob was we'll organized and
apparently led by one man. 1t came
into Olathe quietly, the lights of the
dozen motor cars dimmed' by coats
thrown over them and the license tags
removed. One man went to the Jail
first and called Sheriff Carroll out of
bed with the story that a man had
been hurt in motor car accident.
As he came downstairs he was seized
from behind. He fired two or three
times with his revolver but was over
powered and his hands were tied.
Mrs Carroll, the sheriffs wife, ran
out back door of the Jail with the
keys and threw them into the grass.
Members of the mob, unable to find
the keys. broke into a garage opposite
the Jail, secured hammers and began
battering down the doors, three of
which separated them from Dudley.
Carroll was taken into the jail by the
mob and was a silent witness of the
work.
Turns Hose ON Mob.
Mrs. Carroll, who was outside the
Jail, called the fire department, and
under sheriff and A. c. Carberry, the
city marshal. The fire department
threw streams of water upon the men
still outside until driven away by a
| display of revolvers. The under sher-
if and Marshall Carberry We're over
powered tied and taken into the jail
Just as the door to Dudley's cell was
broken down. some one struck CARRIER
ry in the back of the head with re-
volver and rendered him unconscious.
Dudley was taken out and his hands
tied He denied he had committed
the crime.
He was taken to the motor cars, a
block from the Jail, and the mob went
to the edge of town on an extension OF
the road that coincldentally is Dudley
street. The convicted mans feet were
tied and he again denied he had COM
mitted the crime.
A 4O-foot rope was thrown over an
arm of a telephone pole and he was
pulled UP, his feet being nearly 10
ieet from the ground. Then the mob,
ior the first time since it had entered
1he town nearly an hour before began
yelling and shouting. A number Of
shots was fired into the hcdv.
Lynchnrs Neiehbcrs % Victi',s-
The mob, convinced that Dud'e7
was dead got into the motor oGrH
sFa'n and started sou+', on road
lead'ng towards Stillwell It is s''"-
foSfd they were neighbcra Of tho
murdered couple. althoueh, -" 81
we're r''s'5"d it is not helinvc' ~
were identified. One man seemed 10
ulrect all the operations it is std
a. one time according +o '''-,' 49, 49,
reader was forced to compel the mob
give up plan of taking Dudley
" the abandoned cellar where the