The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2021-03-18
issued: 1920-08-17
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note: ■rri inruMMisi A=aa-wm ATI* mam k Om ami, ayata, ,\ » th. Mrlor «* BrlOtt ' 1 V —^—— ~-""-~—" <# wm THE NELSON timied line If OL. 19 NELSON, B. C, TUESDAY MORNIKG, AttGUST Yl, 1920 » ffl MOB HY LYNCH ALLEGED HI MURDE1 BURN JAIL Ai TOWN ER; HALL braid Crowd Clamor ior Prisoner McNeil; Smoke Police \ Put oi Town Hall and Burn Jail; Run Up Rope on Flag pole for Hanging; McNeil Screams for Mercy and Denies Guilt; Common Sense Prevails and Accused Is Rushed Off in Auto. BT. CATHERINES, Au*.-16.*-Can- llan common sense and the spir- of British fair play tonight sav- the life of David McNeil who 4 been committed for trial during afternoon at the town hall of lorold on a charge of having ordered four year old Margaret mcock on July 19 last. ||The mob which clamored for Msesslon of the prisoner numbered Pverat thousand and the town Jail las set on fire after the prison- I and police officers had been stoked out of the townhall, which le mob Had set on fire. About 10 jdock when darkness had set in ie mob which had grown to im- tense proportions determined to 1st McNeil and began to storm the n hall with bricks and stones. Before long, every window in tlie wly built building had been shat- red and then the mob attacked e doors. MacNell and the police leers saved their lives by crouch- |g In comers and holding chairs front of them as volleys of rocks yept In the buldlng. Police Shoot to Scare Crowd t first several shots were fired of the upstairs windows to ten the crowd, but evidently not hinder them. Then flares ire thrown through the shattered jtnd-Sws and a couple of men rush- a bundle of hay saturated with isollne on to the ground foor. pon the flames burst out and /entually the smoke and flames jktve the men who had been be- fjsffed since early afternoon down lie stairs and out. Yells Out Surrender "We surrender,'' yelled McNeil as e came down the stairs, with Chief Frank Collins hanging to his steel wristlet. „ ** A Buffalo reporter.^ Harold White, was just ahead of McNe…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0396316
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text