Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1894 — M’KINLEYS LYNCHED. [ARTICLE]

M’KINLEYS LYNCHED.

No Reflection on Ohio’* Favorite Son, How- ' ever. A dispatch from Sharon Springs, Kan., May 9, says: One of the most determined mobs that ever congregated in this portion of the State lynched William McKinley and his son Lewis, for the murder Of Charles Carley, committed one week ago. About a week ago, Charles Carley, a son-in-law of Wm. McKinley, was murdered. An investigation revealed the fact that Fred, a seventeen-year-old son of McKinley. senior, had committed the crime. The boy, when arrested, made a confession, stating that he had been Induced to kill his brother-in-law by his father and his older brother, Lewis. On Monday the three were arraigned in court where Fred pleaded guilty, as charged, but his father and Lewis pleaded not guilty, waived trial and were placed In the county jail. Late Monday night a mob of several hundred took the father and son to a bridge about a mile west of town and lynched them. They both begged piteously for mercy. Fred would probably have been hanged with the others, but Instead of being taken to the jail be was kept under guard in the hotel. Carley was murdered because ho refused to pay S2OO to his wife’s father, as he had S remised, for the privilege of; marryirfg er. He was killed while astbep by the boy with a common garden boe. Carley was found dead and horribly mutilated.