The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-12-19

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Two notable cases OF Lynch law have oc-
CURED With the iasa tea d::S -0ne IN Indi-
ana ind one ii ttis state, = ,-.
|, The latter occurred 1T CsrlinYille LAST week.
4 man named Engelmsu, residing in that town
! Was recently divorced from his wife, who, En-
gelman asserts, Had agreed, If he made 10 op-
position to the divorce, to give him money
en- ough 10 stsrE him N business, the wife Being
in comfortable circumstances. At all events,
Engelman had repeatedly called upon his late
wife for money. and at eachstime had obtain
ed small sums. This time he wanted $50,
which she refused to give. Engelman threat
ened, when she caled.a man from the field
who drove Engelman off. When the man had
gone back to his work, however, Engelman
returned to the house, and seizing the woman
cut her throat from ear to ear, and then ran
into the woods The neighborhood was rous-
ed, and in short time the murderer captured
and lodged in jail. He was there less than
two days, however, when a vigilance Com
mittee' of about 60 men made a descent upon
the Jail, broke down the doors, took Engleman
out and hanged him to the nearest tree. The
man seems to have met his fate with the ut
most stoldity-indeed, soon after numbering
his wife, he had made desperate attempt to
commit suicide, in which he only failed, as he
said, on account of the dizziness of his knife
The other lynching case occurred about 8
o'clock last Saturday morning, near New Al
bany, Indiana. For year or two there had
been desperate gang in that vicinity, Of
whom a couple Of brothers named Reno SEEM
ed to be the head, and who startled the COM
munity every month or SO by some daring and
monstreus robbery. Among the more notable
exploits of this kind, were several heavy ex-
press robberies. Their way was at railroad
stopping place, to seize the engine and bag
gage and express cars ola railroad train by
knocking down the engineer, fireman and ex-
press agent uncouple the cars from the train,
run out ten or fifteen miles upon the road,
there rob the express and baggage cars, and
then leave the engineer, cars, &C., to their fate
These outrages became 40 frequent and un-
bearable that at length vigilance committee
was organized, with the determination to
seize the offenders This was done lately by
| bribing confederate of the robbers, who led
his companions into the trap Of the vigilance
committee, by which means three leaders of
the gang Simeon, VIM. and Reno, and Charles
Anderson were arrested, and lodged IN the
Jail at New Albany, Indiana. They were there
but = short time, however, when, in the dead
of night as stated above, the Jail was surroun-
dcd by the vigilance committee, the three
culprits taken out by force, and hanged to a
tree, in the edge of the town.
The case has diplomatic complication
from the fact that The Reno brothers were ar
rested in and were citizens OF Canada. They
were surrendered to the United States author
tiles under the extradition treaty on the ex-
press pledge of Gov. Seward that they should
have fair trial by the L. S. Court in Indiana
OF course the plighted faith Of the nation is
broken in their lawless execution by 4.
| mob.