People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — A MURDERER LYNCHED. [ARTICLE]

A MURDERER LYNCHED.

reken from Jail at Cottonwood Falla, Kan., and Hanged to a Bridge. Strong Citt, Kan., May 15. —George Rose was lynched at midnight Saturday night for the murder of Karl Kuhl Friday. Kuhl was assistant postmaster at Cottonwood Falls, 22 miles west of Emporia. Rose was employed In the Courant office, in the same building as the post office, whose owner and editor,. W. E. Timmons, is postmaster. The murder is supposed to have been caused by jealousy, Rose having expected to receive the position given to Kuhl. The murderer gave himself up to the sheriff. At 11 o’clock Saturday night Sheriff Hodge Murdock was called to the door by a raD. He was suddenly grabbed and pulled outside his door. Several pistols were presented at his head by masked men and

was conducted to the door of the cell, which he was forced to unlock. After securing the prisoner the masked men, about fifty in number, surrounded him and proceeded to a railroad bridge, where he was hanged.