, 1861-06-20
EXCITING AFFAIR IN 0GLE COUNTY
secessionist and Inoendiary Hung
at Lane Station,


Secessionist and 1noenoiary Hung |
at Lane Station.
SUMMARY VENGEANCE BIZ / MOB.
Especial Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribunal
LAaE STATION, Wednesday, June 10, 1861.
Editors Tribune:
The village Of Lane, q station on the Dixon |
Air Line road, in oglc county, has manufac-
tured little history In Its oWu behalf to-dny. !
Twenty 5ears ago the people Of Ogle county |
took the Inv into their OWL hands at Broadle's |
Grove, eight miles above this place, and |
lynched the Driscol1s. The bloody calendar
has been rcopcned md continued, man has
been taken from the hands Of officers Of the |
law. md hung in this village to day.
About three o'clock on the morning Of Fri
day, the Tth Of June, three grain warehouses
in this place, owned respectively BY Boyce &
Bamp, spau1ding & Co., Lake & Blachnan,
and 4. r. Murphy & Son, we're destroyed by
fire, with their contents. Lhe loss on grain
alone was estimated at $15, 900. They were To-
Gated zear The railroad and contiguous to each
other, and the actual loss to the owners was
largely increased, to themselves and the CON-
munity, their being destroyed just as they wezo
60 necessary for The movement Of the gratp
crop seeking railroad shipment here. Every
circumstance connected with this disastrous
fire fixed it beyond MI doubt IS the work Of IN
incendia1y. Great indignation WIS fell, and
it was resolved to spare no pains to ferret the
mystery. Suspicion fastened npon man
named 7. D. Burke, not previously in pleas
ant odor among our citizens for his open and
fearless utte1auce Of ultra accession doctrines.
He was not merely a sympathizer, but out
spoken and loud-monthed in INJECTIONS
against the North. he was very free with bis
expression OF wishes thst our Northern cities
might be burned, and thought that would be
The why he should carry on the WEE, were he
jeff Davis.
This Burke WAS man about 60 years
Of age, claiming to be a southerner By birth.
srd, as etated, most decidedly Southern in his
sympathies and utte1ances. He had resided
in various pa1te Of Illinois for some two years
past engaged In putting pp wire fences, fora
certain process Of straining up which, heheld
patent. He has also been employed by sew
cral railroads in putting up pumps at their
water etaticnE. ......
Suspicion having attached to him, measures
were taken to know more about him,
end soon 1fr. Burke WIS very inti-
nate with man he seemed to
fnd very congenia1. To come at once to the
point, this man was detective put upon Mr.
Burke's track. They grew confidential to.
gethez. The stranger, in secrecy, told Mr.
Burke he himself vas "a11 right With JEFF.
Davis, and had come North to see what could
be DONE He suggested that q succession Ct
fires might be got up. Burke told him he had
thought Of 1t himself, and then conhded to
houses here, and that ho intended to follow it
up, giving him list Of buildings In Rockford,
Be1videre, and cne or two other places, he,
Burke, intended to operate upon.
From this reEalation Burke passed to other
coDfdencee. said he had been bad fellow
fore thoee he did not like, before now, aud
gaye his new friend an idea for "gettinJ rid
Of people by accident," showing him fowl
ing piece, The lock Of which he had filed SO it
eaid be hsd "got ready for q young chap in
Lane"
When things had reached this point It Was
then thought best to end Mr.. Burke's public
career by handing him over to the Law. He
w.s, therefore, taken into custody yester.
DAY morning and brought before q magistrate.
The examination called out the facts above
detailed. The people were wrought up to the
highest Pitch OF excitement. Burke had nar-
rowly escaped calling down some popular
demonstration upon himself, for his outspo'
ken treasoa, but the belief that overt oct and
| midnight incendiarism had actually beer
wrought out Of his t1aitorous leanings Wal
too much, and the spark touched gunpow'
| der.
| The examination was quietly concluded
Burke vas held to bail, and WIS passing alone
the street In the custody Of officers, when +
sudden rush wns made by the excited citizens
feeb1y resisted By Ethe officers, for tho attach
Vas zceIetless The terrified prisoner saw II
the eyes Of the men about him that his fat
had come, and btgged hard against It, but IN
asailing1y.
He WAS hurried through tbs streets, and intt
large brick building about two hundred fec
north Of the railroad track, and carried int
the third story. Hc Was bound fast, q rop
attached firmly to q beam within was tie
about his neck and then the unfo1tunat
wretch wss puehed through the window
It wss short sh1iH md sure cord" th
wretched man falling 16 feet, Was instanl
killed, the neck being dislocated by the shocl
4 few struggles and all was oyer, mud the el
cited crowd beneath looked up, awe struck, {
the Hork Of their Own hands, This took plae
1t 1oA. II. After hanging some minutes, III
> III life wts extinct, tho body was drawn up
within three feet Of the window sill, where, I
} the P. N. train approaches, /. still hangs,
J ehasny spectacle. I should hare stated thi
at the examination OF Burke, the fowling.pies
WIS brought into court and the lock remove
which revealed the fact that the lock had act
ally been so filed that it would not stand
l halfcock, nd thus Indeed might be made :
easy instrument Of t'gesting lid Of huybody
y accident"
4 As may be supposed, the most Intense e
1 dtemcnt prevails here Whether the i
I ber seccnd thought Of our citizens u
q not cause regret that the law had not be
, | left to take its course with Bnrke, there m
= be question, but many answer 1t in adSan
l. By saying that Burke deserved his fate 10
d ago, Is an optspoken traitor to the Gove1
Y ment I'D
u The Fourth District Regiment, C<
T. Rosa.
6, Correspondents Of tbs Chicago Tribnne]
!. PEORIA, Ill, June 10, 1861
= Ihave seen no notice In your columns
" thu Seventeenth Regiment Of Illinois yolz
teers, further than 1t 'Tent into camp at Fl
l. 1ia, and Is I think It's merits enht1e 1t to I
d tended notice send Yon few ite1ns,