Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-02
A FEARFUL RErRIRUrION.

Lynehing of SebuFu 5Oues, the Viola
tor and Murderer, by fhe Ku-EIuN
In Maury COunfy-His Body Pound
/ Dangling from she Same Limb that
! Bore the Murderer walker.
About a month ago, there lived on Lin
/ coin alley, in this city, in the second house
from Wilson's Spring, man named Sc
burn Jones. He was about sixty years Of
age, protested to be pions aud belonged To
the Sons OF Temperance. Three years
since, he married a widow of moderate
means and respectable family connections.
She had two daughters, who were at that
time, aged respectively eight and ten years.
On the 4th of February last, the mother
died. Her remains were put in vault,
and, two weeks later, they were inferred in
the usual manner. The night following
the funeral, Jones took the elder girl, then
thirteen years of age, into hisroom and, by
threatening TO kill her &c she resisted or
subsequently divulged what took place,
violated her person. For nearly three
months he compelled her to share hisoouch,
ever keeping wildly before her mind the
terrible penalty that would attend the
slightest hint on her part a. to what was
going on. Her misery at last became great
er than she could bear, and the monstrous
crime was revealed TO a lady who lived
near by. The latter confronted Jones with
this confession, but he earnestly protested
his innocence. In the meantime, neigh
bors had got wind Of the matter, which be-
came all the more horrible from investiga-
ton. Not only did the girl give the most
minute details of the stepfather's infamy,
bnt her statement was fully borne ont by
negro seryani-woman and by a blind man,
both of whom had lived for some with the
family. The latter said that what he had
heard was more than sufficient to prove
Jones' guilt.
When the old reprobate was accused Of
what he had done, he swore that he was
innocent, but at once prepared for flight,
and left the city by the first outgoing train,
taking with him his child, little baby
girl only three months old, and giving out
Missouri as his place of destination. A
few DAYS before his guilt became generally
known, he placed his two stepdaughters in
one Of the charitable institutions of this
city.
Instead of going TO Missouri, however.
he got aboard train of the Nashville and
Decatur railroad, getting off at Hurricane
Station, between Columbia and Pleasant
Grove, where he had a sitter residing, and
until yesterday nothing more was heard of
him in this city. News now comes from
Maury county that the body of the poor
old wretch was found dangling from tree
near Columbia on Saturday morning, a
party of unknown persons, supposed to be
members of the ayenging Ku-Klnx Khan,
having taken him out on the night previous
and hanged him. A strange circumstance
of the case is, that the tree IN which he
was found, was the identical one from
which the notorious Walker, the murderer
of Young Bioknell, was hanged by the
ghostly Khan.
A little oyer a week ago. the dead body
of a female infant was found floating In
Duck river. near Columbia. The top Of
the skull was broken and gone, evidencing
that it had been murdered before it had
been thrown into the stream. This child
from subsequent developments proved to
be the one Jones had taken with him from
Nashville, and so satisfactory was the evi-
dence of his guilt that the Ku-Klux Khan
are said to have taken it upon themselves
to mete justice TO the soulless PerPetrator
of 80 fearful and unnatural a crime.
1t is reported that the Ku-Klux were
out in force last week in the vicinity of
Culleoka and Hurricane Springs, and that
a workman engaged on the new Methodist
Church building was accidentally struck
in the leg by shot aimed at target near,
him