Kimblern Already a Corpse When Colorado Avengers Hanged Him
Item
- Title
- Kimblern Already a Corpse When Colorado Avengers Hanged Him
- Source
- Evening World
- Date
- 23-May-00
- page
- 9
- Identifier
- Image 9 of The evening world (New York, N.Y.), May 23, 1900, (Evening Edition) | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- Hanging, mob, colored
- Gender of alleged offender
- Mob of alleged murderers
- Gender of alleged victim
- Male alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- Officers
- Stage of the Legal System
- Extralegal
- Length of story
- 368 words
- Description
- Pueblo, Col. May 23. - Five minutes after Calvin Kimblern, the colored murderer, reached Pueblo from Denver, where he was captured yesterday, on a Deaver and Rio Grande train at 2 o'clock this morning, his almost naked corpse was being dragged through the streets by as many men as could lay hands on the rope around his neck. A howling mob of at least 3,000 people followed, and the six officers in charge of the prisoner made no attempt to resist the mob. As the train pulled into the Eighth street depot, Kimblern was pushed out of the front end of the smoking-car and into the hands of lynchers. A noose was cast around his necks. Many hands at once seized it. Kimblern made but the slightest resistance. Heavy steel manacles bound his wrists and he was helpless. He was dragged face downward over the railroad tracks. The noose tightened about his neck and he was undoubtedly dead before he was hanged to a telegraph pole two blocks from the depot. Twice the rope broke after the body had been hauled up, but the third attempt at hanging was successful. After the body had been allowed to dangle in the air a few minutes the rope was cut and the corpse was dragged half a block further, the crowd clamoring for a fire. Mayor West exhorted the mob, which included some women, to disperse, but long after many in the crowd has gone home or stood on the outskirts, boys and young men danced about the remains, insisting that the man was not dead. They stripped the body to the waist, and a man who claimed to be a doctor, said that his heart was still beating. The mob then hooked the mancles into one of the spikes on the side of the pole, where the body was again hanged up. It was finally taken to the Morgue. One the journey from Denver, Kimblern was fully aware of the fate that awaited him here, but he retained his composure and smoked or slept much of the time. Kimblern assaulted and murdered two young girls at the Orphan Asylum on Sunday morning. He also tried to kill his wife.
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