The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-11-10
HOME CORRESPONDENCE.
TIE JACOBS LYNCHING.

THE AVENGERS STILL UNKNOwN-soME
FACTS EsTABIIsHED-FURTHER INvEsTIGA-
TONS To BE MADE-CoRRECTIONs-
STRANGE CHARACrER.
Occasional Correspondence OF the sentinell
BLooMINGToN, IND, Nov. 2-Since the
killing of David Jacobs, your correspondent
has awaited the result of the investigation
of the affair by the grand jnEv, which has
been in session the last two weeks under
the especial orders OF the court, in order to
give your readers the facts. in what, per-
haps, is the most my sterious case of lynch
ing ever recorded within the bounds of the
state. Without casting any reflections up-
on past grand iurics of this county, it may
he said, with truth, that the one jusS ad-
Journed, was the most practical and
efficient of any which has found "irue
bill, within this baihwick for years. The
very fact the VI. l.. 0IcCulloush their
foreman, is sufficient guarantythat no stone
was left uDturned in order { ferret out this
whole transaction, And vet with one
weeks arduous labor, and the examination
of one hundred witnesses, nothing could be
learned which would justify an Indictment.
OF one thing the Jury is satisfied;and that is
that none of Jacobs neighbors had a hand
in the killing, although one or nore of
them might have been cognizant of, and
helped mature the plot. Numbers of good
reliable men, living on the road leading
from Bloomington to David Jacobs, testi-
fed to having seen different bodies OF
mounted men on that road, and in fields
and roads adjacent, on that evening who
were utter strangers and un-
known in the country. William
BLACKWELL, who lives in the southeast cor
ner of this county. on the road leading from
here to Brownstown in jackson county,
0ft
the night of the killing, between 9 and 10
O'Clock, which, he judged, two abreast,
wouldreaeh
THREE HUNDRED YARDS.
Several places in the immediate vicinity ei
the killing bore evidence of having been
trampled by numerous horses, and all the
facts and runsors go to prove that the killing
was done by parties not residents of thu.
county. Who they were Will probably
never be found out, but the next grand
jury will take up the case where this
one left of, and as it will be enabled to Sc
cure the attendance of some witnesses
whose presence could not be had by the last
jurv, some light may yet be shpown upon
this dark and bloody deed. Bat come of il
what may. the present petit jury is-deter-
mined that there shall be no excuse for mob
law in the next three months to come. as il
dietments found by the present grand Jury,
and wherein bench warrants were issued,
three for petit larceny and one for grand
larceny. And the coming week will witness
more bench warrants and more convictions
In the Sunday issue of the Sentinel, Oct. 25,
in speaking OF the Jacobs lynching, edito-
rally, some errors occurred which, perhaps
it would be well to correct. In the artIclE
referred to it is stated that "the man Jacobs
was, by a strategem, separated from two
companions while riding home at dusk. ?
This is mistake. Philip Bond and Wm
Hays, his companions, were his friends, an6
used no strategy to separate themselves
| from him, but they simply rode on, while
David Jacobs stopped to talk with hi:
brother moment. The diagram below show:
the situation. The party who did the kill
ing had passed up from south OF the mair
road. where they had their horses hitched il
the lane, and met Jacobs and killed him
| Went back to their horses, mounted, anC
, passed the thicket where Bond and Hay
were being guarded, saying: "Go back
/ Cd d-n you, and tell them he is dead.
Parties on the knoll could see the approach
of Jacobs from Knights TO the place of tn
killing: