Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-07-16
The Terrible Regulators.

Some weeks ago Mr.. Edward Bingham
of Monroe county, Indiana, was takei
from his bed in the night by band of in
human beings calling themselves "Regula
tors" and beaten to death. Four of tho
band, George Morgan, Enoch Morgan
John Koons, and Elisha Rainbolt, were ar
rested, and are now on trial at Bloomington
| for murder. The Republican states thai
seventy-fiye witnesses have been examined
and the trial is not ended. 1t gives the
following account of some of the fiendist
atrocities of the Regulators, as developed
in the evidence, in addition to the bruta
murder Of Bingham. They should all b
Regulated by six feet. of rope 'instanter
Read and you will so Judge: ea4' @ -
3 Considerable excitement had been pro
duced in this and adjoining counties
Mobs called @Regulators" had committed
many previous outrages. Upwards Of thir-
ty persons had been cruelty scorged, some
eight or nine of them females! Several
houses had been burned, and in one in.
stance, $loo laid up by a very old woman
A number of those who had been whip
ped, had been scorged so excessively and
cruelty that their recovery had been for some
time doubtful. The better opinion is that
had their constitutions not been uncom-
monty good, they would have died in con-
sequence of the scorging.
A. w. Vansickle, a quite, industrious,
in offensive old man, and an innocent boy,
as we learn, were scorged last winter by a
mob of about the same number that whip
ped Bingham, and in. theisame neighbor-
hood. From the best information we can
have the Regulators went in search of anoth
er person whom they supposed they would
find at the house of Mr.. Vansickle. Not
fipding the person they pretended to be IN
search of, the seized the old man, near sew
enty years old, avery small man, bent with
age, very in6rm generally, dragged him
over rough ground and fences to the woods,
in winter weather, with nothing but their
shirt on, and without his truss, tied him to
tree, and kicked and struck him with his
fists, and scorged him witt. rods, until he
was laccrated from head tofoot. He sunk
to the ground several times, insensible.-
Once they removed him to another tree for
the purpose of so tieing him that when he
should faint he would not slip down to the
ground. For some days the physician
pronounced his fate uncertain. At the
same time they assaulted and beat all the
members or his family, the old lady, little
girl and a boy. They took the lad with
them and tied him to a tree near by his
father, and scorged him also. . 517s-I,i eds
A few nights before the Regulators MUIR
dered Bingham, Mr.. Holland, a merchant of
Smithville, had been setting up at the house
of DR.. Warren, in the village laid down be-
fore a window on cot, and fell asleep. Mrs.
w. wns exceedingly sick, and and SO was the
DR.. The Regulators, perceiving Mr.. Hoi-
land through the window, rushed into the
house, took hold Of him and dragged him
out about half mile. with his son, small
boy, and tied them 10 trees about 10 or
~ feet apart, and stripped and scorged
them numerically. Mr.. Holland rs shock
ingly cut from the top Of his shoulders to
his knees. The scorging he received was
about similar to that given to Mr.. Bingham
and would probably have resulted in his
death if his constitution had not been able
to bear more suffering. .-