Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-29
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
Omaha, Sept. 2S.-Troops started
from both Fort Omaha and Fort
Crook at II y. m. Before they could
reach the city a patrol wagon was
stopped by the mob, overturned and
burned.
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 2S.-An at
tempt to lynch Mayor Ed p. Smith
was made this afternoon by the mob
which later hung William Brown,
negro to a pole. The mayor tonight
is i'm a critical condition mt a local
hospital. His physician declines to
say Just how seriously he is injured. A
rope was thrown around his neck and
he was pulled off the ground twice
before two police officers succeeded In
cutting the rope and getting him into
an automobile and away from the
mob.
The mayor had gone 20 the court
house and held consultation with
sheriff Clark. Emerging from the
court hpRse he met the mob and be-
gar Il. male an appeal for iaa aud
ardes SOM adv aIlalts q .st sFic.s
him. and member of the mob threw
a rope around his neck. Half dozen
men dragged the mayor half "a block
and threw the loose end OF the lopc
ever trolley pole. Twice they drew
the mayors body from the ground.
Each time two police Officers cut the
rope. Following the second attempt
these Officers succeeded in getting the
mayor into police motor car and
rushed binh to a surgeons office
nearby. The mayor was bleeding from
his mouth and nose and after Il brief
examination by physicians, was taken
to hospital. At the hospital IL was
stated by the physicians at midnight !
that he was still unconscious.
Ii is believed that the mayors con-
dition is very serious If not critical. |
A corps of physicians have been work |
ing over him ever since he was re-
moved to the hospital. His face and
body were badly bruised by being
dragged by the mob.
Omaha, Neb.. Sept. 2S.-Wnliam
Brown. colored. was dragged from the
county Jail at IL o'clock tonight and |
hanged to an electric light pole, fol-
lowing a struggle of nine hours to
procure possession of his body by an
immense mob.
Sheriff Michael l., Clark and his
deputies held the fort in the top story
of the court house, where is located
the jail, with a hundred prisoners,
until the building became a seething
mass of flames and he was forced to
submit
At II O'clock. after Brown hal
been hanged, the firemen were, fo.'
the first time, able to get stream
on the flames. At the same time ex-
tension ladders We're sent to the third
and fourth floors. where many of the
were standing on window
lodges on the one side of the building
that had not yet been touched by the
flames.
The entire fire department was on
the scene and many of the trucks
we're rushed to fire houses to secure i,
reserve hose.
The. negro was pulled out of the
south side of the court house giving
The firemen an opportunity to work y
on the north side where the fire {,
started 5
The fire, however, had already de-
stroyed valuable records which can s
never be replaced As soon as the mob !
lad accomplished its prime object. 1t i
began to disperse.
The work of rescue then began. It \
VAS apparent that the Jail. on the :
highest floor of the building, was be- !
coming intensely hot Pleas were be-
ng made by those on the top floor for !
assistance. The handicapped fire de- )
1artment was already making heroic !,
,fforts to reach the, panic-stricke1 !
prisoners and by this time well-nign =
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