Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1888-08-25 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

LYNCR LAW IN DAKOTA.  In & despatch from Viahpeton, Bak., the Ckicage Trtbune says : Feeling there ran so high against LemEllmer, the deputy-sheriff who shot down Mary Korbel in cold blood, that the sheriff did not dare remove the prisoner from the cell to take hilt before a justice for examination and commitment. Towards night large numbers of farmers came in, and in the ev.ening the streets were thronged with men. mingled with - a number of women and children. All was quiet on the streets, however, until about 1 o'Clock next morning, when 50 masked men suddenly appeared before the court-house square, accompanied by about 300 more without masks, and with a good many women and Children bringing wp the rear. In two ininutOs the crowd had forced open the east door of the gaol building, ih three minutes more they had opened the door into the gaol corridor by knocking off the plate which held the bolt. The sheriff had a large number of deputies, but deemed it useless to attempt resistance. The inner door of the corridor was held by a triple combination bolt of wrought and cast hardened steel, 2i by 1i inches in size, -held by a combination lock. lhis door was battered with a sledge for 15 minutes, until finally the massive bolt snapped and the door flew open. Tne long bar which closed the tier of steel cells, in one of which the murderer was confined, withstood the assailants about five minutes longer, when that too gave way under the powerful trlowe. The door swung open and four or five men jmoped in, while the crowd outside yelled, "Drag him out." Elliner had been calmly listening to the approaching sounds. He now sprang up from his hammock, and said, "No, I will come out. I killed the girl, but lam partly white yet." A noose was thrown over his neck, and tile crowd yelled, "Drag him," but the leader said, "No, we will lead him down to the bridge, and then hear what he has to say for himself." Be was led out and along the streets at a rapid running pace for a distance of four blocks, holding the rope with his hands. One more block, and the bridge was reached. Ellnier was asked if he had anything to say. He replied that he had killed the girl. The crowd demanded to know why he did so. He replied that he did not know why, but thought he must have been crazy. A voice from the crowd called out "You ' were no more crazy than lain." He replied, "Well, I done it anyhow, and lam glad of it." He was asked if he wanted to pray, and answered that he did not. He was drawn up by the rope, which had been thrown over one of the upper crossbeams. The knot slipped under his chin, and he was let down and the knot adjusted weldor his left 'ear. He was then drawn up to the beam and allowed to fall several feet. This was repeated. He is said to have died without agroan or a visible quiver of a muscle. When dead he was taken down and carried to an undertaker's, where hundreds of people looked upon him. The body was buried in the afternoon. The murdered girl bore an excellent reputation. Kilmer wanted her to marry him, but she gave him no encouragement on account of his dissolute habits. He made several remarks during the afternoon preceding the murder which shewed that he was premeditating it. The shooting seemed to be a cold-blooded piece of work.  The Manchester magistrates on Monday remanded John Dunphye on the charge of stabbing an elderly man named Thomas Chorlton. The men had a quarrel, and in the course of a struggle Dunphye drew a knife, with which he slashed Chorlton across the hand, inflicting a severe wound, and then drove it rig:‘, up to the hilt in his thigh. A girl named Partin, residing at Saltney, near Chester,went to the railway station with her mother, who was gbing to Wrexham. After the train had started the girl was crossing the line to leave the station, when the Great Western express to Chester Came up unperceived, and hurled her forward with terrific force, cutting her to pieces. The mother reached her destination before she was informed of the occurrence.