Dodge City Times

A KANSAS MOB.

The Weaver Brothers, Accused of Killing Abel Shearer, Riddled With Bullets.

ANTHONY, Kan., April 20.—About two months ago a fight occurred in the village of Danville, near this place, between three brothers named Weaver and Abel Shearer. Shearer was fatally wounded and the Weaver boys arrested and hurried away to avoid mob violence. Last week they were returned for trial, but their cases were continued for a term, with bail fixed at $10,000 each. At one o'clock yesterday morning a mob of forty or more armed men surrounded the residence of the sheriff, where the prisoners were under guard. The guard hearing them rushed the prisoners out a back door into the basement of the new school building. The sheriff was taken prisoner by the mob and guarded. The deputies finding it useless to resist surrendered. The Weaver brothers defended themselves in the struggle for life with a revolver they had taken from one of the deputies, but were finally overpowered by the mob and disarmed. Ropes were placed about their necks and preparations made to hang them to the rafters but the tramp of approaching feet frightened the mob and they fired 15, 20 shots into each man, literally shooting them to pieces, and mounting their horses rode rapidly away. No one knows who they were. The mother of the boys and the wife of one of them witnessed the entire tragedy.