The Globe Republican

A DENVER MOB.
An Italian Murderer Lynched and His Body Dragged Through the Streets.

Denver, Col., July 28.-Tuesday night Danie Arata, proprietor of the Hotel d'Italia, a tough resort under the Sixteenth street viaduct, killed Benjamin C. Lightfoot, 60 years old, a member of the G. A. R., over the price of a glass of beer. Last night Arata was taken from the county jail by a mob, led by Lightfoot's son, strung up to a tree and his body filled with bullets. The crime was inexcusable, the punishment swift. The vengeance of the mob did not end with the shooting. The body was taken down and dragged through the streets by the rope with which it was hanged. It was dragged along Curtis street through the business part of the city to Seventeenth and Curtis, where it was strung up to a pole of the Electric street railway. It presented a ghastly sight hanging stark naked immediately under an arc light, surrounded by several thousand people. The breast was filled with bullet holes and the body covered with blood and dirt. A few minutes after it was strung up the police patrol wagon drove up, the body was cut down and taken to the police station.