JUDGE LYNCH OUT WEST.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1552, 4 September 1886, Page 3

JUDGE LYNCH OUT WEST.

It would be difficult to find a more striking example of the strange combination of philoKuhio nultivation and natural savagery which i o hand in hand in the f»r West of Amt-rioa, than the following document A*. Bp>i gfield, Miisoeri, * place "a thousand miles from any where," as the Americans gay, an " Evangelist" named ftraham i rutally murdered feis wife. At midnight a mob of 400 armed men broke into the prieon, gcizsd Graham, marched him outiide •he town, and hanged him to a tree, leaving i his extraordinary notioe pim-ed to hit body: "obituabt koiioe. " When the coroner if in pwsesiion of this paper George B. Grahem will be dead, «nd as little punishment will bate been in flioted m if he had been hanged by legal authority. It ii a matter of right to the oommnnity and jn tioe to humanity that we 'gnore the law in thii instance. We recog--ife'the faofc that our criminal statutes are ...t- equal to all oeoaiione. Therefore we 'iave resolved to remove from onr midib the w< wt criminal who has ever infested our o»unty, that we may hereafter and for ever live aud be without his pretence and vioioui nfluenoe. We heartily welcome all itran. gers to citizenship who are worthy of it. We *iv« by thii, too, a warning to ex oonviots and murderers who may hereafter invade our ooanty and impoie upon our eredulity. We aUt) give warning that any penon or persons, vt any rank or station, who dare to diionver the aofcore in this tragedy, will be «urely aud speedily deipatohed to hell, where all Lhingi are revealed to the ourioui. Id jaitioe to the memory of Sarah Graham, a loving wife and dear mother, whoae life was sacrificed at the altar of Heoate, we subscribe ouiselves eitieeni of Greeae County, Miss. To Sheriff Donnell—Keep your mouth shut If you recognise any of ns you will die the aetttb of a dog,"