LYNCHING A MURDERER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2517, 5 February 1887, Page 2

LYNCHING A MURDERER.

Some Beven years ago a.Mis« Lo.wbef of Marena, Kansas, was married toijam Purple, a man whose- reputation for sobriety and mildness of nature war by no. nieans envious.'"'Tli6y..never 'lived happily together, and-Purple's viciouaneaa culminated da;|Viday morning laßt when his wife werit to awaket, him. Ho sprang violently, from his bed, and seizing his revolver, through the body, from .which .\Jftd shediedatonce. Her woe was nest fired at with the. same result. He next shot and killed another; .of his | children. His sister-iu-law,'' ilies j Lowber,.was,then selected and ; fired.-st' the ball passing'through'the lodging somewhere in the shoulder* An. this emptied his revolver he proceeded to load bis shotgun in order-' to ; com-' plete the work. j -iuto one barrel and, by error,' ihe, 'sbfip '. into the other. With he tried to' blosr off the head of another child,'. bot-M there was nothing except pow'deiKiia the barrel the child's face'was only severely burned by the" explosion. A | heavy blanket was seized, and .wrapt J:y ijaround the suffering child M tins w'aß # securely bound by a heavy wire inthp / . ihopo that ho miijht accomplish .by / suffocation what he failed- in-withV'tha' gun. The child will recover, though disfigured about the face. Tho ■murderer then mounted a horse-and.star..,,, ted across the fields towardß Marena : "' with the avowed intention of killing his wife's father and Before he could accomplish this, howevenftthe • wounded young woman had'maJßer I way to the village and infoTmetfrtije ! inhabitants of what had happened, and they had congregated tor, resistance. ■ :<Jn seeing that his plan had, jjfeen frif£'- j trated, Purplebastened toJetbore and ', surrendered himself to the -authorities. Last night a mob of dQO'mon took him to the scene of his'crime and* hanged him to a tree. Onlyonoo* the murderer's family escaped in'jriry, and, that was a little,'.bby who l conr,,; ■ ceiled himself under, his.bed when he ~ heard bis father coming. '-.;',- ,-,i -