Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-29
L LYNCHED BY OMAHA
MOB; ATTEMPT ALSO MADE
TO HANG MA YOR ED SMITH

suffocated occupants of the top story
| The lynching fonowed an Afternoon
| and evening fraught with mob demon.
stration seldom recorded When the
first rumblings of a possible attempt
10 lynch Brown We're heard during
| the forenoon, Sheriff Clark called IL
all his regular deputies and swore IN
number of others. The first act that
indicated the mob was in earnest was
parade up Harvey street by about
fifty men, who detrained from street
cars few blocks from the court
house. They went up Harvey street
at double quick and were al the sher-
ifs headquarters before he realized
what had happened
Appeals were made to the police
station for help and a few uniformed
men were hurried to the place. In
the meantime central station tele-
phoned every mann on the force ami
those on the south side to report at
once. Being Sunday many of the
men could not be found The result
was that several thousand persons had
gathered on the south side of the
court house before the police could
arrive in any considerable numher,
The original members of the mob
We're augented presented by hundreds
of others apparently equally deter
mined to lynch Brown. They
yelled for the prisoner and attempted
to get into the court house. The few
police officers who had arrived were
able to keep them from breaking in
the doors for only a short while. A
colored officer was among those to
report for duty at the court house
His presence angered the crowd be-
yond reason. He was the first victim
of violence and his life was saved
only by the hardest kind of a tussle
by the officers. AS It was he was
badly beaten UP.
The sheriff then coupled up three
lines of interior fire hose and with his
deputies and some police officers at
tempted to COW the crowd by turning
the water on them. Instead of having
any effect. it brought a hail of stones
and bricks. In ten minutes fifty win
dows had been broken on the south
side of the court house and much
other damage done. From that time
on until the negro was strung up to
the pole the vicinity for many blocks
around was a bedlam.
A small crowd of young men, none
of whom appeared over 20 years old,
then secured a rope, which they
threw over the ledge of a second
story window. One of their number
mounted the rope to the window
From there he pulled up ladder that
had been provided and a score or
more of his companions followed. !
Once inside the building they were
followed by many more who began |
their way to the upper floors. |
The sheriffs office is on the fourth |
floor. facing north on Farnum street, |
az T ~ tSe rear OF his office is /
sstsifssss a,A vistator, 20. the Jail. |
What methods were used to force a |
passage to the Jail is uncertain to- |
night. All of the men who got inside |
were apparently armed because they |
tired numerous shots after getting in
side
That occurred about 4 o'clock, after
he mob had been on the scene for
wo hours. From that time on panic
'eigned with the crowd on the street.
Thousands of shots were fired. The
mob surged around the block on
which the court house stands. Fin
tlly about o'clock in the evening
Lfter securing fuel of kerosene and
ar they managed 10 start fire in the
ffice of the county treasurer. which
5 on the first floor and at the north
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