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"pemt-up Anger" Finds Vent.

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Day
7
Month
December
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Canos City, Col., Dec. 5. - The peutup anger of tha citizsns of this place found vent yesterday rnorninsr abnut o'clck by the lynching of the notorious murderer, Witherell. One hundred heavily-armed men entered the jall and overpowered tbe s'aeriff, and ofter a desperate struggle with the murderer cvtiipowered bim. Slippius a ropa over his head tbe lynebers dragged him mto the street. He refused positively to utter a pri yer and asked and received uo mercy. He was at once strung up to a telegraph pola and bis body leCt dangling afc the end of a rope until every resident in Canon City had viewed it. Witherell had murdered four people, tbree of tbera withiu the past sixty days.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News