Dudley Hansford's Fate

LastFriday night a inob of abcrat forty men went to the house of Austiu 3imma, in McLenan county, six miles above Troy, "with the evident intention of mobbing Simms. But he succeeded in getting under the flonr of the house, and the mob did not find him. Af ter their failure to find Simms the mob proceeded to the house of his brother-inlaw, Dudley Hansford, and called for üim to come out, and warnéd him not to fire on them f rom the house or they would buni it down and every person in it. Hansford left his wife and child and went out. He knew what the mob want ed, as he had been warned some threo weeks before that if he did not leave the country he would be killed. He begged them to shoot him, and not hang him like a dog. He was taken about two miles from his house, in a northwesterly direction, and hung to a small mesquit tree, where he was found Saturday. We are told that the mob was not masked. Hansford waB a notcd cattle man, and was once a citizen of this county. His character has not been good. - Belton {Texas) Journal.