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Vlroqua, XOTar tho^■X»ynbjti!ng 3ee.; \ :• y /=. **r ■■ I'. ''•* /- r '• lt;•J»ndrew GrftnditsS^ •lt; the Batcher of the iht»ke'. : by a Mob and Hanged— . •• ■*-HI* Crime Confowed. •;; .* v'v » . .•;■* '' * • ~~ ’ *’ ■*DESKSVE3; HI3 • PATBLX:--lt; . V; yr;?rViaoQui, Wi^i *Juiiie ^Andrew Grind-oldV Reuben ?nke, '■wife -and ; two* grandchildren, who was: capttu^dTfcuraday' nlgh^ taken:. from the jall FHdaynight.by :an excited crowd of men and hanged to'ar tree.'1-*.:•. The offlcbrs found Grandataff in bed. aV theVesIdencc of;a mannamed Jennings in the backwoods; of /fthe.;: town -of- Wberty; near, the;Kickapoo'river,'where ^he t had made his he^qnartera for sbme days. - He; jwas taken to Reads town and* kept »during, ^tbe night, when the detectives and officers pumped a full confession oUt Of Mnfc/V* GrandstaH saysthat he left the house of Jennings at a o’clock onthemorning ottha murder, and Becreted himself in the wooibfall day, and arrived at a safe distance ^rom .the Drake'' homestead ’ at about :4 o’cck..He continued: ■ !lt;;;■•O ;■ v•/. '7/ ••; .*• X stkd there until dark: 'Then Iwent down Into the; bottom and up to the;;house;' stopped, and looked Into the* window/, then knocked' at the - door/ The '.old gentleman (Drake): said: * come ini I, entered the. house and asked'him tor a drink ot -water. I took the drink and: spoke, ay few words to. him, 'They called me *-by v name, ; X asked' him . if he had money and ha said he had not, . Then I drew a revolver and* told him ‘I waited Wa, money. H6 said he did not: have any, but was rexpeettogor. looking for some soon; ■When,; he;; said ' this ^ the- x second tlmel; shot • hlnu '/-When y.H*:. ^first ; went ■ ? into ^the .;-hbnse':;- Mrs.1' Brake :Cwas-'patting the; jtwO ’godchildren to *.bei She ; went *• into the bedroom.to go to bed-; before X shot.: This was after the chUdren were in bed. - Just after x ‘ shot, she. ■ oame out with; the ;Wlnbhesten rrifle.^ I think I had then shot at the old man| ’ttrieeCand; h'e; had '■/alien.''' ?As; Mrs.- ABrake came .out'of the ibedroom deor I-• shot’ her, and jusias r shot her she let the rifle fall. .1 shot her twice, x think X * looked; into every ‘thing/ but found no money.; The children were then awake, and both stood up in bed on their arms looking oat at me.; I thought £ wo old have •to killthem,for if I did not they would iell on me. Then X cut their; throats-—the little girl's first. She was on ;the front side of the bed The ,boy was upon - his elbow when I took hold of him, and he strugfflod.V1[ cut his throat, but do not /remember of stabbing him.** ^ ■[ The prisoner says that he took the mnr-Idered manTs rifle a»d departed by the back jdoor over the hills ten ajiles to the Sloka-. poo river, wHere he washed vbinfeelf,; and then wandered through the woods and slept in a shanty till 7 o’clock in tbe morning before he returned . to Jennings’ ^place, where he changed his clothing. He d. jscribes the spot where he bid the gmi, how he spent the next day going from: place to place, and how he freely conversied withmurder, etc. The knife and rovolver with which’ the crime was committed were* fdund oh his person when captured. ' The. revolver is . a five'Shooter, 83-caliber, an^ •the knife a long-bladed jack-knife.A few hours aft«r the arrival of thepris* oner In this city Friday there was loud talk of lynching, and crowds of excited men from the neighborhood where'the mur* der occurred began to gather. The crowd and the . excitement continued to in-creiise until about It1 o’clock, when a inob of fuliy. 1,000 determined men marched upon the jail and demanded the murderer. The. officers resisted and the' barriers to the jail%ere brokeh Sown* One' hour was consumed ini breaking* down the steel cage in the upper room of the jail, where the prisoner was confined. Ho fought desperately andr VtfardecT off every body,.: but was finally Overcome*' A rope was put about his neck and be was brought to the porch below’, where he firmly protested his r innoceiice. But' two or three in the crowd were aware (rf his confession and they; refused to give evidence; The scene at the jail was h|r-:jrible:: -The. prisoner . was covered witb blooa, having been terribly mangled whto the'st^el cage was being battered do wn, andf atood.for au hour, with the halter about bis neck, pleading for his life.At li :45 a. ou’ the mob hanged tbe prisoner to a tree in front of the; courirhouse,; and let him down again to see if ho -would confess. The mob strung GrandstaS up four thhes - and the last time Hrft his’ •body han^g to the tree, ivh^ it remains.1 v The murderer, Andrew Grandstalf, was a youngmian, 24 years of age.- He was bom . in this county, in the town of Franklin, of illegitimate parentage: Be was IgnorantHo was of a daring temperament, but had never been considered; desperate or depraved enough, to commit wholesale murder.
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Quincy Daily Journal
Quincy, Illinois, US
Mon, Jun 04, 1888
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