Bradford Reporter

Judge Lynch.—Wisconsin is rapidly gaining a reputation for disregard of law and contempt for legal tribunals. Not long since they seized a prisoner from the Sheriff, while he was on his way to jail, put a rope around his neck, and strangled him. Yesterday the act was repeated in Milwaukee, with but slight change; and a more barbarous act never disgraced a civilized community. The prisoner was DeBar, charged with the murder of the Meyer family, and found guilty of murder in the first degree.—The circumstances of the murder were horrible. While being taken to the jail, surrounded by military, a mob rushed at him; the military gave way, and DeBar was struck to the ground by a stone. The mob then fell upon him and mangled him in a dreadful manner. A rope was then tied to his heels, and he was dragged through the streets a distance of half a mile, when he was hung up by his heels to a tree, where he remained for several hours. A more barbarous act it has never been our unpleasant duty to record.