Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-13
A BRUTAL MURDER AND RAPINE
For Which Five Villains Paid the Pen
atty with Their Lives.
INFURIATED CONDUCT OF MOB.
One Victim Carved Into, Fragments
and Torn Limb from Limb.
THE HANGING DONE DECENTLY.
And the -Four Devils Swung Up In a
Style Worthy of Profess
siOnal Execution.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. ]

Especial Telegram to the Globe.
MOUNT VERNON, Ind, Oct. 12.-This city has
since yesterday been in the widest state of ex-
c1tement over one of the most disgusting
crimes and tragic ravages which ever startled
people in any city. The Associated Press re-
ports tell elsewhere how eight negroes, lawless
and drunk, last Monday night gained admis-
sion to house of ill-fame near the outskirts
OF the town, demanded money from the girls,
plundered the house, and then, budding the
girls into one room and putting out the lights,
inaugurated a
BEASTLY CARNIVAL,
holding their pistol at the girls heads and COM
pelling them to submit to their loathsome en-
braces, each one after another, for an hour.
during which the girls were not allowed to
speak or utter sound on pain of death. The
villains lived in Belleville, in the negro quarter
Jim Good, jeff Hopkins, Edward Warner and
Wm Chambers were arrested Wednesday and
put IN jail. the arrests being kept as quiet as
possible in order to
PREVENT LYNcHINa.
On Friday morning, Deputy Sheriff A.. 8.
Thomas, Deputy Marshal Ed Hayes and Con
stables VIM, Russell and Charles Baker went TO
49, -
whose son, Don Harris, Jr., was to be appre
hended on a warrant of being one of the raw
ishers. Here Thomas
WAS ssHor DEAD.
After three hours struggle old man Harris
was secured, but his son escaped. When the
officers took old Harris to jail, about o'clock,
they found great crowd of people armed with
pistols and guns, hungering for the lives Of
the men in jail and for Harris. Several Of
0hem3attacked Harris as he was carried through.
ana nearly succeed in shooting him, and but
For the excitement elsewhere which diverted
them, they would have done 80. The officers
put him in jail, and Hayes, Jim Dunn, Baker
and others, locked themselves in, armed to the
teeth, and deied the mob which was bowling
outside and demanding entrance. At o'clock
last evening several hundred citizens startad
out of the city and assembled in dark woods
half mile out on the railroad, where 100 long
black masks were ready. They spent an hour
preparing for their work and taking an oath Of
secrecy. During this interim GLOBE reporter
went into jail with Ed. Hayes, marshal, and
talked with the
DOOMED MEN.
In the corridor lay old Harris, lean and
bloody, with frowzy whiskers. He was unable
to talk above whisper from the loss Of blood.
His right arm was shot to pieces and loads of
shot in his side had nearly done the work. He
raised one arm and said he had done the shoot
ing which killed Thomas, but thought the men
who came were Geo. Daniels and Henry Jones,
who had threatened to kill him He reluctantly
admitted things which placed his guilt beyond
the shadow of a doubt. Jeff Hopkins, a tall
locyh r,t LII
He denied his guilt. VIM. Chambers, the third
man, had just been acquitted of the murder of
Pat McMullen, at Grand Chain last winter.
Jim Good, who has just been pardoned for
rape, vlllainous looking six-footer, magnifi-
Gently built, denied in the most solemn manner
his connection with the affair." Edwards. the
Last OF the five, was d young, slim, slouchy
looking boy of 81, coal black, aud cool as a
cucumber. When called to his cell door
HE QUIT PRAYING
IN monotonous voice and told the reporter in
calm and even tone that he was not in the
crowd that ravished the women. Old Harris
alone presented a pitiable appearance, looking
weak and sick. Cool and unmoved he Law on
the pallet without uttering sound, while the
other four locked in the first cell from the door
were kneeling on the floor with heads bowed to
the wall, praying in loud, monotonous. and
thrilling tone of camp meeting. AS your re-
porter concluded the interview the
CHACKING OF PISTOL
was heard, and Ed. Hayes, throwing open the
door, said Lets skip, boys, there's murder
on hand" For ten minutes it seemed to he q
false alarm, but then was heard the steady
tramp Of 200 men, the best young men of the
tU nhv ioo11 Nd
marched up the street and filed by twos into
the yard and up to the guards without a word
Every man had ON a
LONG BLACK MASK.
The guards were sized, when volley of pistol
and gun shots was fired, and several officers
were wounded. The keys of the doors were
taken from Hayes, and the masked men enter
ed the corridor. With cold-chisels, sledge-ham-
mers and crow-bars the doors were opened.
While the awed and expectant crowd we're
waiting outsidea
was committed on the interior. The surging
crowd, rendered desperate by the slow destruc-
ton OF the iron door, had, with hushed voices
ana almost by glances, agreed upon an
AWFUL VENGEANCE
for Thomas. The old man Harris who Law upon
his pallet like Indifferent to his end was
suddenly surrounded by men from whose
hearts all human feeling seemed to have fed.
Without word he was seized, a hand clutched
about his throat to stife any scream, and
knife plunged into his heart. In five minutes
his
BODY WAS OUT TO PIECES
like hog, head, arms, legs, all separated. and