Whether the fear of losing the round-shouldered farmer operated to bring about the result or not is immaterial to this narrative; but, at all events, the crowd decided to lynch the negro.

"There 's a mob comin' this way to lynch the nigger we 've got locked up.

Not until Everest's body was brought back to the city jail was it discovered that the mob had lynched the wrong man.]

His nephew Dale Hubbard was shot while trying to lynch Wesley Everest.

[Illustration: City Park, Centralia At this place the parade assembled that started out to raid the Union hall and lynch its secretary.]

If Andy was dead, I'd say lynch the dude.

It was upon this occasion, during the debate in the Senate, that Mr. Foote, then a senator from Mississippi, and now governor of that state, whose speech on the French revolution has been already quoted, threatened to join in lynching Mr. Hale, if he ever set foot in Mississippi, whither he invited him to come for that purpose.

When the sickened spectators are about to lynch the murderer, the imp runs in smiling from the garden gate.

"Why, the boys would be so furious they'd be tempted to lynch him offhand.

Everybody was mad and they threatened to lynch pa when they got back to the tent for suggesting letting the animals out to graze.

When public feeling took definite shape in the intention to lynch the prisoner, Ellis felt a sudden sense of responsibility growing upon himself.

"My high emprise may set the suburbs hooting And lay me under Balham's local curse; There beI know itthose in Upper Tooting Would lynch the prophet and insult his hearse; But when my feet have kicked this mortal bucket Millions will bless me!more I cannot ask; So, John, distract me not!

The dismissal of the charge excited a storm of indignation in the camp, and a body of diggers at once proceeded to wreck the hotel and lynch the accused.

A chief who kills or mutilates one of his ten wives for consorting with another man without his consent, acts no more from jealousy, properly so called, than does a father who shoots the seducer of his daughter, or a Western mob that lynches a horse-thief.

"I helped lynch a road-agent only last month.

There were not enough male residents to form a mob strong enough to lynch Casey, but there was one woman who had lost a sofa pillow and two lace curtains; Casey did not say much about her, but I gathered that he would as soon be lynched as remonstrated with again by that woman.

The doctor did what little he could to ease his patient, and then went away, but soon returned with some men from the village, who were quite ready to lynch the criminal when they heard what he had done.

"They'll be lynching the Diggers' dogs for fighting, when the supply of humans runs out.