SHERIFF- CAPTURED AND NEGRO LYNCHED

Texan Mob Hangs Culprit Alter the Grant ing of

WACO. Texas. Aug. S. Mounted citizens numbering about 600 surrounded the courthou
se and jail at 2 o'clock this morning, and. after making prisoners of Shfriff Ti
lley. the jailer and all the Deputy Sheriffs, broke open the Jail. The mob took
Sank Majors, a negro, and, after hearing his confession, hanged him from the new
bridge. Majors had recently been convicted of criminal assault upon a white wom
an and given the death penalty, but was granted a new trial by Judge Surratt. in
order that there might be no opportunity for the court of criminal appeals to r
everse the sentence on a technicality.