Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1898 — WORK OF A MOB. [ARTICLE]

WORK OF A MOB.

Storm* a Mlaatssippi Jail. Riddle* an Aliened Murderer with Bullet* and Burn* Hi* Body. St. Louis, July 21.—A special to the Republic from Natchez, Miss.,, says: A telegram received here announced that an infuriated mob had stormed the Simpson county jail at Westville, killing W. T. Patterson, who was confined therein under the charge of murdering Lawrence Brinson, and the jail was tired and the building and the body of the prisoner were burned. The body of the unfortunate man was literally riddled with bullets. Patterson killed Brinson in April, 1897, as the result of a quarrel. He had had four trials, but always escaped sentence on some technicality, and the mob intervened, wearied by the law’s delay.