, 1873-07-07
INDIANA L.YMCHlMGS.


From the Ne,o albany Ledger r-!standard.
Within tho last 1.-Two Or s1 yoarH nineteen per
SONG have l,oen hanged within tho 1imitH OF this
Judicial district by vigilance committees, or, to
give them their proper, shame suggesting namo,
and short ropo III jackson County, Mt Browns
town. Three mon wore hnng on Goocll treo in
tho samo county. d negro was hung between
Courtland and Frootowl, In what Is known NJ
tho White Crook slashcs. Shortly afterward two
mon woro hung OH the snmo boooh troo, from
tho limbs Of which three mon bofore them had
IN fRho Floyd County jul at New
aoath on tho Lost River Bridge, between Orleans
and Paoli, in Orange County. Threo nogrooB
Snod 1es oona o Xaa I " ao @ n'o0 1 hri
lung him without mercy, li]ko dog. All Of tlloHe
tivo counties.. 1aclHon County hua hanged cight
mon an hh5ustlce is not done hor her cti,
that county to tho Floyd County Jail for protoc-
tion) who suffered death in tho jail at Now Al
bnny. Orange County las two to otornally stain
her record. Clark County must account for tho
just tastol tho sweets of mob-law, In hor first
midnight hanging. a terrible record indeodt
In tho moantimo, OF judicial infiction Of tho
death penalty. We havo thia record Since the or
beon hanged BY tho Sheriff OF Jachson County,
ono BY tho Sheriff Of Floyd County, and ono by
tho Sheriff of Clnrk.. Eighteen by tho mob
within Six ycara, aud three BY tho law in fifty
counts for tic mnny Of tho mob 'What tic tIo re- re-
voting history Of crime would reveal ns to tho
number Of 1nur1crB committed in tho meantime
NC aro unable to toll, but almost any Of our
readora can count from Lis own memory enough
to show for oyory murderer hung for Ills orimo,
at lcast fifty mon have suffered death by tho
hands Of other mon, and tho slayers haye boon
acquitted. We do llotsay that evcry man accus-
cd Of murder is guilty, Of murder but tinn wo
vonturo, that during tho time in which tho Inv
llas hanged four men. at loast twonty mon guilty
to The coro Of murder lavo escaped tho ponnlty
Of tho law, death, within tho limits OF the coun-
tics (Clars, Floyd, and Jackson) III which tho
We aro in rccefp. Of the following dispatch
from gentleman in Salem. 1t will be soon
that tho yigilantB aro still hopping an eyo on
snlom. Mr: Godfrey, spoken Of IN Tho noto loft
BY, tho vigilnnts, ig the father of Hotrren's
prossod by tho hanging of Heffron that ho did
not 10 much ~ 60 to ueGrens funeral, and has
had little to say Of tho matter since. Houston
vas Aoirron's ia.koopor. We aro Informed TINT
Houston, and eomo OF uofron'e coun-
sol, made on tho street, at every OPP
portunity, had groat deal to do with
essz hgng Our " tt
waB not half 30 bad Us tho johnson case, md
Deos got out Of that, and III u little while ho
would bo In his snloon again." aud that these
things confirmed the opinion Of the people that
ho would be- released.
GALEM, Ind, July 3.
Lcdqcr- STANDARD, Ntw Asbany:
Doputy-ShertH Craycraft this morning found Ills
pistol carried off by tho Regulators lnsio his gate
aud to It was pinned this nois:
"1u tho excitement your pistol was carried on. We
return t. YoM acted tho park Of . brave man. We
and Houston will receive their portion II thoy nro not
carefnL They arc watchcd. Hcffren confesscd that
both murders were Without Just proyocation, ind HAT
his doom waa just. Ylu1IANCE."