Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1907 — Nebraska Murderer Lynched. [ARTICLE]

Nebraska Murderer Lynched.

Omaha, Neb.. Aug. 27.—Loris Higgins, who murdered W. L. Copple and wife, farmers near Rqsalie, Neb!. May 12, was lynched' at Bancroft. Sheriff Young, of Thurston county, came to Omaha at night to got his prisoner, who had been in the Douglas couhty jail here since his capture and took him to Bancroft on a train, which arrived there about 8 o'clock in the morning. Twenty men took Higgins from the sheriff and hauled him off in a dray nnd hanged him to a tree.