The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-28
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Another Triple Execution OF Express
Robbers by the Vigilance Committee.

The Cincinnati Gazette OF July q, saYs:--
The final scene in the tragedy at Seymour has
been enacted The last OF the express robbers
have iallen into the hands OF Vigilance Com
mittee, more vIgilanJ than even the San Fran
Ciscan; have pleaded in VAN for life, have been
allowed only short shift, have been hung in the
dead of night from llm6s which sustained only
six days before the weight OF their guilty com
Iades.
I The story of the last attempted robbery is still
fresh in the memories OF our readers, and the
terrible judgment meted out to Elets, Rose
berry and Clifton viii not have been forgotten.
They were hung on Monday last-only a week
ago to-day. Two days before Ellets was writing
letters 10 friends in Seymour from the Ninth
Sire ct Station House, in this city, telling them
to be in no tear, for he was well ana would soon
rejon them; asking them ito smoke their best
cigars on his account" and Ito believe no news
which they might hear"
The three were taken on Monday from this
city. conveyed 10 seymour arriving there about
10 O'Clock on Monday night. All was silent at
the depot when the train balted much more
silent than usual. Ellets and Roseberry aud
Clifton we're hurried away. Only a few mo-
ments later their bodies were dangling in the
black darkness of the night, from limbs IN
the midst of the forest No one was near
to witness their last strugglings, no one to
offer even the shortest prayer for the dying
men.
But the end was not yet The work of the
committee was still not accomplished. Three of
the party engaged in the outrage were yet at
large, aud until the same wild justice was meted
out TO them as TO Ellets, Roseberry, and Clifton,
the committee could not cease its laoors. A de-
scription of Moore, Sparks. and Terrell had been
sent out in all directions by the detective who
was working up the case. Two of these men
were young-MooIe being only twenty-three
years old, and Sparks about thirty. The age OF
Jenell is unknown All were single men, resi-
dents for many years OF Seymour. The writ for
their arrest was issued IN Jackson county, In
diana, and made returnable there.
Friday afternoon these three men were found
In Nation, Illinois, whittier they had fed i'm
mediately after the attempted robbery. All
were at work on farm, and were arrested by
the Sheriff OF the place. They were placed in
charge OF special officer from Seymour, and on
Saturday put on the train bound for Iudlanapo.
lis. On reaching thai city they were trans terred
to the Seymour train, TO be taken, il was de-
Ctded, 10 BrownstOWn to await their trial.
But an engineer sent in advance an ominous
dispatch:-"Shall run over no red liehtsn
AGAIN as the train reached Seymour all was
quiet. NO confusion, no Heise no armed COM
mittee, no threats OF lynch law on auy side. 1t
was thought best that The prisoners should be
taken 70 BrowusioWn m wagon, and accord
inglY about midnight the prisoners and their
guard started OF. But there was o be Tor them
no rial by slow forms; no lOngdelayed punish
ment. An outraged community, tired OF the
thraldom in which it had been held for years by
villains and outlaws, had determined TO take
vengeance, swift, terrible, awful. Their only
law tor this was tbe Law Of self-de'eEse; their
only iusudcanOn the necessity of the case,
About o'clock yesterday oeuiug the wagon
y
forest by men whose only disguise were hand
kcrChes bound about the brow. The three
were taken trom the custody OF the officers IN
whose charge they we're, aud without the forms
of law we're hidden TO prepare for death. Cues
tions were asked alb Jut different ourages which
had been committed in the vicinity. bat no an
sWers were returned. Then the woods wine, sed
once more the terrible retrbulion extended TO
guilty men by men, who hal Tor wears been
held in a bondage of abiect fear. Again the
morning light revealed these ghastly corpses
hanging from the limbs, the faces of horrid
bla 'kness, the eyes starting from their sockets.
and the bodies swaying to and fro in the
breeZes.
In this connection il is well TO state that the
Reno family, which has been at the head oi
these outrages, rs nov il fair way to be bro
ken up. Simeon and william are now in the
jail at New Albany, on the charge OF being con,
necIed with the Marshfeld robbery. Frank
the oldest, and the Iiugleader, a telegram from
Windsor informs us, has been arrested at that
place, and will, without doubt. be shortly
transferred 10 the state Of Indiana, to receive
the punishment which he deserves