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The Fairfield News And Herald
Winnsboro, Fairfield County, South Carolina
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In Homer, Louisiana, desperado Link Waggoner defied a lynch mob that battered into the jail to kill him, shooting two attackers and holding off the rest with smuggled pistols. His brother Spank was returned to prison as an escaped convict.
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New Orleans, Feb. 5.—The Times-Democrat's Shreveport special says: Homer, the parish seat of Claiborne, has been the scene of intense excitement for the past two days. On Saturday night a mob battered a hole in the jail and six men went through the passage to kill Link Waggoner, the desperado recently placed there for safe keeping. As soon as Link saw the six men were after him he began firing on them, having in his possession two six-shooters. He shot two of the men in the arms, defied the rest and held them at bay.
It seems that Waggoner had not been placed in a cell, and did his shooting from the corridor, dodging into different apartments as he did so. In trying to pull open the door of a fellow prisoner's cell the latter caught the door with one hand to keep him out, when Waggoner drew a knife and cut off the man's fingers.
The sheriff says when placed in jail he was searched and no weapons were discovered about him, and it is supposed his friends have since furnished him with arms.
Spank Waggoner, the brother of Link, was sent back to the penitentiary last Saturday as an escaped convict.
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Homer, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
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Saturday Night, Prior To Feb. 5
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A mob attempted to lynch desperado Link Waggoner in the Homer jail by battering a hole in the wall; Waggoner, armed with two smuggled six-shooters, shot two attackers in the arms, held off the rest from the corridor, and accidentally severed a fellow prisoner's fingers with a knife while dodging. His brother Spank was returned to the penitentiary as an escaped convict.