Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1916 — KANSAS MOB HANGS MAN [ARTICLE]

KANSAS MOB HANGS MAN

Masked Men Swing Bert Dudley, White, From Pole at Olathe—Batter Down Three Jail Doors. Olathe, Kan., Sept.,22.—Bert Dudley, convicted of the murder of Henry Muller, an aged German, and his w'ife, was taken from the Johnson county jail here early'Jn the morning by a masked mob and hanged to a telephone pole. The mob came to Olathe in motor cars, supposedly front near Stilwell, where Muller lived. Sheriff Lon Carroll refused to give up Dudley, and the mob overpowered him. They then battered down three jail doors. Several shots were tired, but none was injured. Dudley, white, was convicted of firstdegree murder, which carries with it a sentence of life imprisonment. Kansas does not inflict capital punishment. The mob evidently thought Dudley deserved death, and administered it.