SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT A BALL.

Southland Times, Issue 1178, 18 June 1869, Page 2

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT A BALL.

A correspondent, writing from Council Bluffs, lowa, on the 19th ult., gives the particulars of a frightful outrage committed in the house of a Mr Holloway. A dance was being held at his residence, and two rowdies, Jackson and Norton by name, went to the house and requested the girls to dance with them. On being refused, Jackson drew a revolver and fired a shot into the room, and then swung his pistol about him, striking Mr Holloway on the head and crushing his skull. Holloway's brother came to his rescue with a gun, and struck the murderer over the head. Tbe other ruffian drew a knife and stabbed the dying man seven times in the neck, Jackson then endeavoured to escape on a horse that was hitched at the door. He succeeded in getting out into Nebraska, where he was arrested at the Weeping Waters. Norton was secured at once. Both men were locked i up in the Fremont county gaol to await ; trial. On Saturday night about 11 o'clock, the ' inhabitants of the town were alarmed by the appearance of about 100 . men, many of them mounted, the rest in sleighs, and supposed to be from the vicinity of Plum Hollow, as the place is called where Mr Holloway lived. The men were fully armed, besides being proi vided with sledge-hammers, axes, and other tools suited to their purpose, and immediately on arriving in town proceeded to the county gaol, where Jackson and James Norton, the men charged with Holloway's murder had been placed in confinement. They then demanded the keys of Sheriff Martin, and made various ' threats of violence in case they were not produced, but he resolutely refused to deliver them or to reveal the place where they were concealed. Happily, these threats of violence were not carried into execution, but the mob contented them- ■ selves with simply placing him under l guard, and began with implements which ; they had brought to effect a forcible eni trance to the cell where the prisoners [ were confined. In about two hours and a quarter the door was got open, the cell . within opened, and the men taken out and • placed in asledge, with their hands and feet ; tied, and the crowd immediately and rapidi ly left with their victims in charge, on the Plum Hollow road. When about a mile and a half from town they hanged the men upon the limb of a large white oak, . where they were found suspended on : Tuesday morning.— American paper.