The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-11-25
KU-KLUX!
INDIANA MOB LAW.
MURDER OF THE PARK FAMILY.

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developed, it would no doubt have been
hard to have convinced any jury of then
innocence. First, Jobnson's confession
which of course void have required a
corroberatioh by other faets-a full &C
Acknowledgements that he, Taylor and Da-
Wis committed the murder, and circum-
stantial narration Of every particular con
nected with the horrible murder, first,
before a Justice of the Peace, and after
wards before the Grand Jury. Second
the finding of the bloody ak in the exact
place where he said it had been left and
the tracks of the three men all along the
route he said they travelled upon leaving
the house after the murder. Third, the
finding of the coat of young Park in the
house of Taylor, aud the finding of the
pocket book of Cyrus NJ. Park in a
trunk at the house of Davis. Fourth,
the straightforward story of the little
grandson Of Taylor, and the statement of
Taylor's wife Fifth, the finding of the
bloody shirt at the house of Davis, and
a bloody coat at the house of Taylor.
The Grand Jury failed to find an in
dictment on these facts. We learn that
so confident was the Prosecuting Attor-
ney that true bill would be found that
he had the indictments for murder in the
first degree already drawn up.
When the grand jury announced to
Judge Durham yesterday evening that
they were through their business and he
ascertained that they had found no in
dietments against any of the parties charg
ed with the murder of the Park family,
he adjourned them until the first Mon
day 10 December when they were to have
met again for the purpose of investi-
eating the murder.
The people were highly incensed in
the evening after the announcement was
publicly made that the Grand Jury had
failed to indict the murderers. Ominous
words dropped here and there from the
disappointed citizens. The excitement
grew. The people of Charlestown who
had forbore so long, and whose counsels
had been for law and order against the
Of some persons who were in
favor of immediate action before His
Hopor, Judge Lynch, became careless as
10 results, and finally concluded that for
in this case had ceased to be a
virtue. Old men looked as they had not
ooked before. The fever grew in town
md country, and between one and two
clock this morning the sullen and de-
ermined tramp Of not less than fifty
nen was heard upon the streets of that
usually quiet town. All who heard it
knew its import as onward it sounded to-
ward the jail
From a blacksmith a crowbar was ia
ken which assisted the mob in It's en-
trance to the Jail. From prison walls
George johnson, Squire Taylor, aud
Charles Davis, all colored, were taken
md indicted by grand jury in the court
If Judge Lynch for having committed
me of the foulest murders that ever
larkened the records of Clark county
Tremblingly the accused murderers
we're borne along by the determined ex~
cutioners of the lawless court They
we're taken to Hammouds' woods, about
,ne-fourth of a mile from Charlestown
N the New Washington road, and there
.xpiated their crime by hanging by the
leck till they were dead. The injunction
IAN eye for an eye, and tooth for
Doth" has been obeyed in this case
Three victims sleep beneath the soil of
Indiana, dispatched by the murderers
hands into eternity, to say nothing OF
he two daughters still lingering, and
hree victims have paid the penalty. 1t
5 well, we suppose. 1t is possible,
hough not probable, that the parties who
lave paid the penalty were not guilty
Tot all Of them-but the people when
,nce aroused and united under the ban
Ter of Judge Lynch stop to ask but few
questions. That the parties were guilty
here can be but little doubt, and that
hey should have suffered the penalty
which they have received, is certain, but
We would have preferred, for the fair
Iame of our sister State, that it we're
lone according to the law as laid down
u the books and not that another crime
hould be added to the Criminal Calendar
f Indiana, in order to bring the instru
nents of the recent tragedy to that jus
ice which they deserved.
at daylight this morning the bodies of
he three men were still hanging, cold |
nd lifeless, warning to ike offenders
gainst the law which is intended to
,rotect the humblest citizen in "life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
The men who composed this mob were
disguised and it will be hard, if desired |
0 identify them The coroner left Jef !
ersouville this morning for the scene
or the purpose OF holding an inquest on
he bodies.
A query suggests itself at the close of
hese lines. Have the Kuklux invaded 1
he Northern States, or have the North
IN people caught the fever from the
'outh How many Radical papers will
ead their account of this fearful TRACE
y " A Kuklux Outrage in Indiana y
LouisriHe Sum-
Policy TOWARD CUBA.-There is
n indication that Gen. Grant contem-
lates a change in the Cuban policy