The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1868-08-21
From the Cincinnati Gazette
SEYMOUR.
THE LAST CASE OF
INNCH-LAW.
Full Particulars Of the Tragedy.


Full Particulars Of the Tragedy.
The final scene in the tragedy a
Seymour has been enacted. The las
Of the express robbers have fallen
into the huuds of Vigilance Com,
mittee, more vigilant thso even The
San Franciscan have pleaded in
vain for life, have been allowed only
short shift, have been hung in the
dead Of night from limbs which sus
tanned only six days before the
weight Of their guilty comrades.
The story of the last attempted
robbery is still fresh in the memory
of our readers, and the terrible
Judgment me,cd out to Eliets, Rose
berry, and Clifton will not have been
forgotten. They were hung on Mon
day iast-oniy "A week ago to-day
Two days before Ellcts was writing
letters to friends in Seymour from
the Ninth street Station house, in
this city, telling them to be in no
fear, for he was well and would soon
rejoin them, asking them "to smoke
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soon 10 DC ensc'eo no ONE" 10 give
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approaching 'a'e' n''e' '"e 'f'pNe,
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or noise, the stern, selfappointcd
executors of the law seized, first,
Rosebcry, who, bound as he was,
could make no resistance, threw him
from the car, and gave him in charge
Of the committee outside. With Ell
lets and Clifton the work was some
what more d'fhcn't' Tor each with ms
feet and ms un'et'ered mana made a
most fearful resistance, hght'ng as
one expresses 1t, lise ngers' But
what could two men, 'noug" moved
to desperation, DO against Two nuns
dred
In few minutes the train was
again on its way. SO quickly, so
noiselcssly had the work been accom-
plishcd that sleeping passengers we're
not even aroused from their slumbcrs /,
and others could only tell Of the
transaction that they heard the wills
tie signal 10 put on the brakes, saw
before them inc req nights, ana snort
y a''er 'hey moVen on No"o A"e"
the cause OF tue "e'sy
Eilcts, Rosebery, End Clifton were
hurried away, Only lev moments
later their bodies were dangling IN
tho bacl larkness OF the night, from
limbs in the midst OF the forest.
No one was near to witness their last
struggling, no one to offer tho short
est prayer for the dying men.
But the end was not yet. The
work of the committee was still not
accomplished. Three of tho party
eagagcd in the outrage were yet at
large, and until the same wild jus.
tice was mctcd out to them as to
Ellcu, koscbery, and Clifton, the
committee could not cease Its Iabors.
A description Of Moore, Sparks, and
Terrell had bsen sent out in all direc-
tons by the detective who was work
ing up the case. Two o. these men
were young, Moore being only TWEEN
ty-thrcc years old, and Sparks about
thirty. The age OF Terrell is un.
known. All we're single men and
residents, for many years OF seymour:
The writ for their arrest was issued
in Jackson county, Indiana, and
made resurnable there
Friday afternoon these three men
we're found in Nation, Illinois,