People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — LYNCHED. [ARTICLE]

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Two Murderers Meet Death at the Hands of a Mob. Shot Down In Their Oils In an Arkansas Jail—One of Their Pals Spared— The Story of Their ColdBlooded Crime. VICTIMS OF POPULAR FURY. West Plains, Mo., March 1. —Mon- i day night, about 11:30 several hundred j men, supposed to be inhabitants of Ozark county, Mo., Fulton and Baxter counties. Ark., assembled at Mountain Home, Ark., for the purpose of lynching Anderson Carter and Bud Montgomery, alias Jasper Newton. The mob overpowered the jailer and guards, took their guns and demanded their keys. K. C. Smith, representative of Baxter county, made a half-hour speech and begged that the law be allowed to take its course. The men listened in sullen silence to his talk ancV that of others and then went about their work of vengeance. They unlocked the doors and proceeding to the cells occupied by the murderers fired volley after volley at the helpless men who vainly begged for mercy. After about twenty shots the firing ceased. Carter was dead, but Newton was found to be alive and he asked for water. This was given him, and then the mob riddled his body with bullets. I Both died protesting their innocence, and only asked that they might be released from their shackles. According to a previous agreement the life of Bart Carter, one of the trio who confessed, was spared, and it is thought he will be given a life sentence in the penitentiary. He was forced to do what he did by his father, Anderson Carter. He told where the money was, and went with a posse and recovered SI, 100 of it. Bart Carter says Anderson Carter did the planning and Newton the killing. The crime for which they were held was the killing of Hunter Wilson in Baxter county, Ark., December 18. While Wilson was sitting with his wife by the fire the men entered the house, killed him instantly, very nearly killed his wife, robbed the house of SI,IOO, and after heaping coals ox fire upon Wilson’s body made their escape. Mrs. Wilson crawled xo a neighbor’s and gave the alarm. William McAninch was arrested for the crime, but had been released a few days ago. The crime was a cold-blooded one. The Carters had the reputation of having killed a man in Texas county, and Newton, whose real name was Montgomery, was wanted in Clay county ; for a crime committed fifteen years ago.