, 1863-07-21

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I.ync1s Law at Waterloo, I'LL.
Nc have already alluded In brief to the hang
ing Of three notorious thieves and murde.erx
oy ]Jbch law ut Waterloo, Ill. We find the
following dttails Of the affair in the St. Louis
Republican:
On Sunday. last the people assembled at
Wat. tloe, mud determined 10 sift out the mys,
tery Of Kleppfnger,s disappearance, They
accordingly got hold Of Greer, and, taking
hin, to tree, hung him ny five different times
before lie made any confession .After the fifth
l'al's;ng, however. being satisfied they would
inke' ais life # be aid nor confess he told them
TO 1T tim down and he would show them
where klepr1nger was killed. They folio we'd
ilim 10 an out-ofthe-way spot in the woods,
aud Lhere, scattered about, were the remalus
IF ro1r kleplinger, nearly eaten up b. tie
hogs. His head, with rearly ali the aesh
ftom Us faee, was lyieg some tea feet from
his body. One of his legs WAS eaten oG, and
had bten dragged come distance ftum the mu.
tulated trunk " the hogs, with the boot still
on the loot. There was 8 bullet hole In thu
buck part Of the skull, and his hat, which was
t1unu rot fur oil, Ind a bullet hole In the baud.
Ihs tnl4um"n Greer confessed that when he
told hiepPsnger be would find his horses for
him, he cuticed him to this wood, where Ben
tun snd Jurrett were waiting for them; that
le anu Benton held the victim while jarrett
shut him.
Greer was then taken back to Waterloo and
lodged in jail. On Tuesday, Mr. Harlow, who
live in or hear Waterloo, came to thI, city to
learn Something in regard 10 the horses, he
having but recently sold them to K:epplngcr,
taEtEE = "chattel mortgage" Here he learn
ed that they had been bought by Michael Hor-
Eigan, Il horse dealer At MofEau's uorse Mart,
responsible, Hur1igan, WHEN he learned the
circumstances, gare up the horses to Il aElow,
and went ds1 i TO Wate.loo with Mr. Harlow
to endcavor to recover The money he h ID paid
to GEeer. Policeman Cam, who formerly
lived IN Waterloo, also went down, by diree-
uon Of the Chief of Police, to assist Ia what
cyer could b. doIc in the premises Not 1o3s
afsef the arriyal Of this party in the Town Of
Waterloo, on Wednesday,, the three mcu,
Greer, Benton and jarrett, We're taken out BY
a mob and hung, 1lr: Cam, who SAW ,he al
fair, has given Us the following statement:
At 3 O'clock, ? N On wednesday, quite
large crowd CAME dasaing in:o ths town on
horseback, surrounded the public SQUARE. and
demanded the keys Of the jail, but @ere re-
!us: and ordered out by the turnkey. But
they were not intimidatcd- They prepared
tht tmstlres with sledge hammer and other
implements, and broke open the Jail and took
out elk Tisoner=, put them iu a wagon and
started for the tltuber. When arriving at
lonesome, deserted place in the woods, ou
tbe Duglollow road the leader In ID. the
pI4eLuElS AE4U1lLtGN VIII 1Qetr late say
lug tllnE john Greer, Daniel jarrett aud
-Depton had to hang, and II they ad any
thing to say they had better say /. then, for
it y Il thtir last chance. They gazed on the
rope tEat was fixed IN the tree. but still held
their conroge, preserving the utmost cool
ness. Greer remarked that he had money
enough to bug better rope than thas. Greer
thci. told his mother that three Of ftnet1 had to
hang, aud bid her good ye,taying, '1'll meet
yur III Heaven or In he'll; one, don't know
which. und 1aki1g ring from LIS tlngcr, sent
to ia, for him, hut II seemed as II there was
nobody to do 1t, 20 he prayed himself. lie
asked for pencil aud wrote his will as coely
as il he vas not going to be executed. ua
then confessed that he aud the two that were
with him did murder Mr.. kleppi1gcr, and that
he was ready to be hurled into eteruity.
Benton then made short confession. He
stated that lie had been in jail seven times
and had nerer been tried, he always broke
jul. Jarrett made his will aud prepared for
death. They were then 1oisted and hang u1-
til they were dead. The crowd then took
them from the gal1ows and buried them. The
Other three were returned back to Jill The
crowd was sober and quiet AID then dispersed.
THIS act vas accomplished by the respectable
rSt5zers If Mrnrne cnnnfy