Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1894 — A BRIDGE’S BURDEN. [ARTICLE]

A BRIDGE’S BURDEN.

Triple Lynching by a Determined Kansas Mob. A mob of twenty men catered the jail at Russell. Kan., Sunday night, took out J. G. Burton. Wm. Gay and his son, John Gay. and hung the trio to a small railroad bridge. The work was quickly and quietly done and the mob immediately left the scene, going north. The belief Is general that they came from the north part of the county. The crime for which the meu were lynched was the killing or Fred Dinning, in July last, on the Burton place, about twenty miles northwest ot Russell. Inquiries regarding a draft payable to pinning and hfs mysterious disappearance led to an investigation and the arrest of Bur ton, who Implicated tne bthef men Both made a confession, which led to the finding of Dinning’s body burled in i field near the scene of the murder.