Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — Hanged by His Heels. [ARTICLE]

Hanged by His Heels.

A dispatch from Cotulla, Texas, reports that “one hundred armed men surrounded the jail and invited the Sheriff to surrender Green McCullough, held on the charge of murder. After going through this littleformality the vigilantes proceeded to takethe man, and, escorting him to a neighboring tree, left him dangling, heels down, at the end of a rope. The occasion of the visiting of summary justice upon McCullough: was the murder yesterday evening of Charles Bragg, with whom McCullough had had a previous altercation, which at thetime was thought to be finally settled. McCullough, however, only went away to arm himself. Subsequently returning, hesought out his victim in a gambling-room and shot him through and through with at. rifle, killing him instantly. ”