Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1857-04-24

CONTEMPLATING, MURDER AND LYNCH
LAW AT BELLEVUE, I~owA.-Thomas Oliver,
the driver of the stage between Gslena and
Bellevue, gives the following facts, which have
created the most intense excitement ia Bellevue /:
For some time Dast there has existed a gang
Of counterfeiters in Bellevue, of whom one or
two were suspected, and a man named Ingle is
said to have been connected with them, and
threatened to expose the leader of the gang.
He (the ringleader) was overheard to say that
be would send to Louisville for his nephew,
who would shut Ingle's mouth, and that "dead
men tell no tales" H S nephews came, was
introduced to Ingle, became quite intimate with
him Immediately, and the second day proposed
a hunt. Ingle agreed, and after they had pro-
ceeded a distance into the woods, Ingle proceed
ing his comrade, attention was directed to a
squirrel in a tree, and while Ingle was looking
at it, the other shot him, the ball entering the
back part Of the head, and penetrating quite
through the front of the forehead The muir
derer returned to Bellevue, and the body hav-
ing been found two days afterwards, he was
arrested and confined in Jail.
At about 8 O'Clock on Sunday afternoon last,
the citizens of Bellevue, fearing that he would
in some manner escape, went to the Jail and
demanded the murderer. The jailor refused,
they armed themselves with crOWbars, Sc,
broke into the Jail, took the prisoner to a tree
near by and prepared to hang him, giving the
prisoner twenty minutes respite. He confess
ed to the murder, said he was hired by the
counterfeiters, and only wished that they should
share his fate. He said he had killed a man
in Louisiana, and had twice attempted to muir
der a woman. After this confession was made
In the hearing Of three hundred citizens be was
hung.
Attempts were made to arrest the two coun-
terfeiters, but one had escaped, aud the other
was having an eXamination-either in Belle
vue or in some town near by-upon a charge Of
counterfeiting. Tn justice declared that the
man should not be disturbed till after the ex-
animation, and presented a double-barrelled
gun, with which he threatened to shoot the first
man that interfered. The crowd was kept at
bay, and the man, il appears, was suffered to
escape through the back door.
When the steamer Flora arrived at Believe,
this man managed to get on board, which was
discovered Just after the boathad left the shore.
A party Of one hundred and fifty men started
down the river for the next landing place, ex-
pecting to anticipate the arrival Of the boat.
When Mr.. Oliver left Bellevue they had not
returned, and the greatest excitement was pre-
vailing among the inhabitan s..
Another account states that one Of the coun-
teTfeiters was arrested by the people Of Belle
Vue, and that the man on board Of the Flora
was under the charge Of an officer, TO put him
in Iail in some place where he would be safe
from the excited popalace Of Bellevue.
Just about seventeen years ago last Satur-
day, if We remember rightly, the Great
Lynching " took place at Bellevue, when ten or
fifteen persons were killed. We are sorry to
hear Of this new violence.-GalsRa Advertiser,
-April 10Th