Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-29
THE RENOS.
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Tim Tucker, a correspondent of the
Louisville C0Wier-JOlEnGi, on occa-
sion of recent visit to Seymour, Ind,
the scene of the terrible tragedy OF
last winter, thus gives the result OF
his interview with the father aud SIS
ter Of the Renos. He says:
Sitting down to dinner with the
father of the Reno boys, could not
for my life help thinking how just the
fateS sometimes are as | heard the
kind old gentleman narrating how
this man p" a Av-One5 of the regUla-
tors had already met with a sudden
death by sickness, aud how that man
+" BN-another regulatOr-had already
gQRe suddenly, by a railroad accident,
iIko the presence of Jehovah with the
blood of young Reno upon his hands.
Verify, there is retribution in store
for somebody. What need is there
for the fair young sister to execute the
terrible threat which her excitement
OccasiOned when God is teaching thus
early that "tbe way of the transgres-
sor IS hard?" To Him belongeth
vengeance, and to Him she can COM
nit the tlestinies of the moral despe-
radOes who took the lives away from
her brothers. p .ag1a.sr
At her brothers house, near by, ]
sought and found Miss Laura, the lady
referred to above. A horrid sketch in
the Police Gazette some months ago
had impressed the belief that she
was a desperate looking woman,
with wild locks hanging far down
in disheYeled masses on her
masculinely shaped shoulders, with
eyes, and mouth, and ears, and
nose Of q terInagant, whose out
line would be a cross between a mon
key and an OK. But if my mother,
who, bidding me goodbye few weeks
ago, bade me by all manner of means
avoid the bad peopleof Seymour, and
especially the Renos, while / was
travelling in Southern Indiana, could
haveseent the little, 1.-the, he,gOod-hearted
clever girl who furnished me the arti-
cles required TO write you this, in her
brothers house, am quite sure that
the old lady would throw up both
hands with an unusually emphatic
and interesting $ RIess me, bless me, !"
so sure l am that Iaura's presence
would disabuse her mind of the incor-
rectness Of the opinions which the pa
pers have caused her to form about
the RenOs. As many of your readers
know, Laura is a young lady of mark
ed intelligence and rare beauty,
and possessing a pure and stainless
soul, Warm-hearted and affectionate-
trusting with no Punic faith-she
will make some fortunate man a good
and true wife; and if every one of
your fair readers could claim as hand
some beau as the young gentleman
who visited Laura this afternoon in
that capacity they would all say,
" Please God, how soon ?o
{" Miss Laura" inquired your cor
respondent, "did you really take that
terrible oath over the body of your
youngest brother?" -a
'p-'' Yes,''- she replied, - presume /
did. l was greatly excited at the
time, and, of course, my feelings were
absolutely awful. Those feelings pass
ed in a great measure away with the
excitement. ~ ~
so now, you feel disposed to leave
vengeance with God, where it prop
erly belongs, do your"
"Yes," was the quick reply, and /
wish l could communicate the arch
style in which the words were
uttered" but if God needs any
assistance at my hands / am quite
ready to render it." .sf sa 81
Notwithstanding all that / have
heard and read concerning the Renos
I have found few memories to carry
with me into the future so pleasant in
recollection as the hour whiled away
with Miss Laura Reno, near Seymour,
in the county Of Jackson and State of
Indiana. ,-f .gpiits
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