Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1889 — SIX MEN KILLED. [ARTICLE]

SIX MEN KILLED.

A Fatal Encounter Between Officers es the Law and Lynchers. A message received at Fort Worth, TeY., Monday, from Graham, Young county, says that Saturday night while a Deputy United States Marshal with a posse of Graham citizens, was escorting the four Marlow brothers, Back Hart and another man named Pierce to the Park county jail at Weatherford, these prisoners being indicted for four murders and eight cases of horse theft, X mob of thirty citizens attempted to lynch them. The marshal and posse defended the prisoners, when a terrible fight took place. Two of the Marlow boys were killed and four of the posse at he first shot. The fight continued, aud another sf the Marl ws and Pierce were wounded, and another of the citizens mortally hurt. The prisoners, Pierce, Mario V and Buck Hart escaped, but all are .said to be wounded.