The Cheyenne Daily Leader

A Horrible Fate. A Prisoner Driven from the Custody of a Sheriff and Murdered.

St. Louis, July 29. A special to the Post-Dispatch from Moberly, Mo., says: An armed mob of about one hundred men, from adjoining counties, came into the town this morning, and as Sheriff Mattock was taking J. C. Carlew into the court house to be tried for committing rape on Mrs. Crump last March, the mob opened fire on him. Carlew ran into the court room, followed by three men, and was shot again. He then escaped to the street and fell, but quickly regained his feet, and received another shot. He then ran through a dry goods store, closely followed by his slayers, out into an alley and again into the street. He then made his way up stairs over a saloon with his pursuers at his heels. Here he found himself cornered. The husband of the outraged woman, the man who did most of the shooting, then fired five more shots into the body of the wretch, and one into his forehead. Carlew died in ten minutes. Intense excitement prevailed while these violent proceedings were going on.