Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1884 — A KANSAS LYNCHING. [ARTICLE]

A KANSAS LYNCHING.

Samuel Fryer, the Murderer of John Bennington and Wife, Hanged at Marysville by a Mob. [Marysville (Kan.) Dispatch.] Intense excitement has prevailed here for some days over the trial of Samuel Fryer for the murder of the Pennington family, which has been in progress here. Thursday evrn itig the jury returned a verdict of “Guilty,” and the prisoner was taken back to jail. It being expected that trouble would ensue, a strong guard was placet! around the jail, which is a flimsy concern. Last night twenty-five or thirty masked men rode up to the jail, took Fryer out, and, going to Spring Creek, a small stream half a mile from town, threw a rope over the boom of the bridge, and he was swung ofl Into eternity. When the rope was placed around his neck, he was asked if he had anything to say." He said, “Yes,” and proceeded’ to give a full, detailed account of the awful and cold-blooded murder of John Pennington and life wife, which he committed about the middle of February near Frankfort, Kan. It will be remembered that the victims were found dead in their barn several days after the murder. They had been robbed, and Mrs. Pennington had been assaulted in a most brutal manner and afterward killed by the inhuman brute, who paid the penalty of his crime last night at the hands of a m<*>. William Cline, of Westvili®, N. J., a few days ago killed a hog of Chester white breed, which, although only a lew months over 2 years old, weighed 1,040 pounds. It was considered the heaviest hog ever raised in New Jersey. According to Japanese custom, age is counted from the first day of the January succeeding birth. At that date a child is 1 year old, whether bom the previous January, at midsummer, or on the 31st Of December. A wild duck took a direction parallel to a locomotive leaving Tarfytown. and it was a close race for two miles, but just before reaching Irvington the bird forged ahead of the engine. A panther measuring ten feet from tip to tip and weighing 200 pounds was reported killed near .Hartland, Wash. Ter., recently. Benedict, M<l., has 100 Inhabitants, of whom seventy are sick with typhoid fever.