Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-11-26

Terrible Deed In Kentucky.
1, was briefly announced by telegraph
Saturday that two men, charged win
had been lynched at Greensourg
~, sn the 10th inst, and hat another
to escape the fury OF the mob, had
eemmitted suicide. 1t appears that some
eirh,een months siRcs a wealthy farmer OF
Kes,ucky, living pear Gampbeisvifie, was
murdefed and rehbed of between $4,000 and
ao .oee,. by parties who entered The house a,
Midnight and accomplished the double deed
while he WAS soundly sleeping in bis bed.
MI. Simpson was much respected. and OF
course the cowardly murder caused great ex-
cite mont in his community Soon after
the guilty culpriis were discovered and ar
rested, aRd an attempt was made BY the
pepulacs TO hang them, which was frustrated
Afterward they were taken from the Jail at
Eussellville TO that at Greeusburg. The
Louisville Journal has a letter dated Camp
SeilsyiIle Ky, Nov. 10, which says:
This morning, according to a previous I'M
serstanding, men from this and the udjoin-
Ing counties commenced gathering at this
place, and at an early hour took up their
march to Greensburg, meeting with Access
siens al different points along The road until
rhe crowd numbered two or three hundred
men, including We learn, a considerable
aumbsr of spectators. The mob proceeded
to the Jail, which,is built of stone aud very
ssreng, and found the doors locked and the
Taller gone A number of men immediately
seized q large piece OF heavy timber, anG'
with several tremendous blows, oursted the
deer from it's hinges. An inner door was
speedily broken with crowbars and sledge-
banners, and q portion of the moi stood In
the debtors room, fronting he cells IN
which !the miserable men were csnhaed--
The locks of The ceh doors were soon bro
ken and the doors pried open, when a most
Aorrid, aud sicknlng. and revolving sight met
the gaze ofthose present.
One of the men, Elias Scaggsr a man
weighing Two hundred pounds, was foand
weltIring in a large pool OF blood IN the ias'
sgonies of death, the blood squirting IN large
lets from a CHASTITY and selt-infileted wound
in the neck, having, with a razor, cut his
throat from ear to ear. His body, CONFUSED
In death, was dragged into the debtors room
and from thence down a flight Of steps on tc
the street paving. The remaining three
men, viz: Bill Saul Thompson, Sloan DcS-
pano and George Hunter. were then bro'ishI
frsm the jail, bound aad mounted behin'
men on horseback, whea the crowd, in dou
3 Bile file, amid thronss OF spectators, TOOK ni
shsir return march to this place, 8 distance
Il twelve miles. during which two OF h'
men displayed considerable frmness, Us
serfing their inn~ncencei in the most posi- Nv
terms. Thompson wept and prayed audi
bly, a COED part of the way, calling on ALT
witness his innocence. The crowd havinl
arrived at this place determined to lyme
Beko also,a negro. belonging to the muir
dersd man, who had been implicated b.
Seaggs as the real murderer.
Al this juncture, amid the ceilings an
Aowlings Of the crowd, the expostulatlon
or the Sheriff and our excellent jailor, an
"amid confusion worse coDfounded," Rot
e4 Colvip, ESQ.,, a prominent and in1uen
sial citizen, having succeeded in gaining al
elevated position and in catching the ear c
ahe crowd, addressed it in q short speech
which, for point appropriateness and goo
sense, TharaiY ever heard excelled; and it wa
effsctual as it was sensible, for after an IN
successful effort Of one or rve inexperience
orators, mob left the negro in Jail and con
Quoted the three men u short distance to a
elm tree, and began msking preparation
90 bang them. At Thompson's request
drawer was offered in their behalf, be pray
ing and weeping aloud during the time
He was then mounted on q horse, and ate
again asserting his innocence for the ln'
time, q rope was put abouth his neck, the en-
thrown over q limb. the horse driven tro'
under, and Thompson was launched I'M
efernity. He seemed to die easy-one
two spasmcdic jerking OF the limbs, a shn
der, and all was over.
Despano soon shared a similar tate. dyin
much harder. Al this stage Hunter ga'
evidence OF making a clsan breast, which
after seme delay and a good deal OF relu'
tnnce, he did, confessing to the guilt
Scaggs, Thompson and Hsnter, and ;mpl
eating FIVE others as being concerned in III
murder. Their names are as follows, Hel
" Scasgs, Jerry Scagss. L1yd McDanne
John Underw God, and q son in-law OF Sym
con. The latter is under arrest, but is, "
believe, generally considered %innocen
The sheriff, with a posse, is out tonight
arrest the others. Beko was also implicatt
by Hunter, and brought forth, and the t"
confronted. Nothing Of Importance WI
ELECTED, and they were both taken TO jail
both Of them making a narrow escape.
One cause that instigated the iynching
Taylor county, was, that four of the witne
ses in the case Of Thompson have died sim
his trial and conviction, and others ha'
been threatened. 1t is presumed that tho
who have died were poisoned. Those in
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been suspected for come lime. and will, it
thought, share the fate Of those who we
hung.