The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-11

whom they did not dare TO kill, had their
houses and barns burnt their stock
killed and manned. The young men Ot the
vicinity were rapidly becoming corrupt. they
saw the thieves ana a pa aua yn w,' n e H
RAPIDLY al d conclusion. How Is IL that these
men can spend money In this >way2 How ls
II that they can get " to spend they
arrived at The conclusion aud they followed IT
up. The Renos were bounty-iumpers,. and
when the war ended became thieves. Muir
derH, robberies, arsons, pillage and lawless.
ness became the order Of the day, SO thht
actually. when went there In 1866, FOR The
first TIME. 1t was considered unsafe for any
ono to give mo u place In which could sleep
for the night until d positive order was sent
by a railroad company to. the landlord ol
their hotel at that place 70 give me room at
I'll hazards The criminal law was ~ loose
lii Indiana rs the divorce laws. The cfiini ma
had the closing argument; continuance alter
continuance had To be granted the criminal,
but none could be given to the state.
SPECIMEN pHrREp4rJoNs.
The tIashng nature Of the Reno transac-
tions may be Judged Of by the following brief
description Of different crimes: IN Iebruary
of 1869 raid was made upon oil the county
ttreasurers' safes of Northern Iowa, taking
the whole counties through from the M issis-
sippi to the Missouri. ALI these robberies
were either planned az executed Wy the kenos
vi
the Mills and Harrison county safes In Iowa,
shortly afterwaid, Frank Reno, Mike Rogers.
Ghas Anderson, William DeerinE and Albert
Perkins were arrested and coniansd inthe
Mills county jail. Shortly after, they man
aged to break jail and made their escape In
the dead u winter. crossing the Mississippi
on the Ice, and travelling two hundred miles
Oh foot they finally made their way to Wind
aor. They remained there until toward the
latter part Of the following May, when an
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Indiana.
Upon the twenty-seeond Of May the cars Of
the Jelfersonville, Madison and indianapolis
Railroad, while stopping at Nashville station,
an lsolatei watering.p place, We're f fo,nsihy
ranged the plan beforehand, quietly TIM
coupled the express car and locomotive fnom
the balance Of the train; several Of them got
Into the express ear. while others mounted
the cab OF the locomotive, turned heavy
head OF steam on and shot rapidly away frosn
the station. The thing was done % COM
pletely and expeditiOusy that locomotive and
car were almost out OF sight before the rail.
way people. were aware OF the trick that had
once given, but too late to stop them. The
only person except the robbers on the car
was all express messenger, who was i'm tho car
when the robbers took possession OF 1t. lie was
supposed to have defended himself and the
property In his charge ms well as he was able.
But he was no match for the gang. They over
powered him aud threw him from the car
while they were lying over the road at the
rate Of thirty miles an hour. On the follow
ing day the poor fellow was found Oh the side
exposure. He expired In q few hours after
being picked UP. without having been able to
speak d word. After throwing the express
man from the car the robbers ran on a few
miles further and stopped. They then fifled
the express car of ts contents, which were
very valuable. They broke open the safe and
took the money thereffom, which they divided
among them. tied 1t up In packages. and then
struck for the woods, leaving locomotive and
car standing on the track sufficient evidence
was discovered TO warrant the finding Of bills
OF indictment against Frank Reno, Charles
Anderson, William Deering. Simon Rano,
William Reno, Albert Perkins and Jack Mel
son. Frank Reno and Charles Anderson made
their escape TO Windsor. The others remain
ed In the States.
Simon and William Reno were arrested and
confined In jail In New Albany IN July. Deer
ing. was arrested subsequently,, and, while
under guard ut Seymour awaiting Identified
ton, escaped. Nelson was arrested, taken to
Seymour and held to ball. Frank Reno and
Charles Anderson were arrested In Windsor,
and, after a hotly-eontested extradition suit,
were returned to the United States.
OTHER RoBnERIEs.
But there were other and later robberies
than that In May On the night Of the ninth
of the Adams Express Company, at Browns
town, twelve miles west of Seymour, on the
line Of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad.
Tn that occasion the car OF the Adams Tx
press Company was again detached from the
train, an engineer put on board and the ex-
press car and locomotive rapidly run off.
The Express Company. however, had guards
on their car. Shortly after leaving Browns
town the train came to q full STOP when the
thieves entered the express car for the pur-
n rnbh nrp " HraI
upon by the guards, and the engineer, Col.
Gllitts, was wounded and captured The rest
Of the band made their escape. The party
was afterwards discovered to consist of Ellis,
berry, Warren Clinton and Henry Jerill.
They were all pupils OF the Reno school.
reward was offered for their apprehension,
and they were speedily captured.
On the part OF the inhabitants endurance
and law officers being utter failures a new
and awHi programme was about to be exc
On tlle night Of the twentieth of July the
train Oh which Clinton, Rpseberry and Ellis
were being conveyed to Brownstown as pris-
oners was stopped by an obstruction placed
on the track, about two miles from Seymour.
The prisoners were taken from the cars and
hanged to a beech tree In the vicinity.
On the twenty-sixth of the same month
Sparks. Moore and Jerill, who had been cap
town. shared the same fate on the same Sree
1t was supposed that the vigilance commit
tee would dishand after SO much work, but
these executions exasperated the Reno fam
lily.
MRS. RENoS THREAT.
Mrs. Reno, the mother OF the Reno broth
| ers, now fearing that vengeance might over
| take her sons, who We're then In Canada con-
testing extradition, ,avowed that Seymour
should be laid In ashes II one of her sons was
treated to similar fate with the six who
had been hanged to the beech tree.
! TO that threat u leading citizen responded
remarked, If it be any satisfaction to Mrs.
Reno, that the only way to save her boys and
consequently preserve Seymour from mere
very clear of that locality. Should retalia-
ton be attempted the committee have pub
lished the fact that they will swing by the
neck any and every man, without reference
| to the fact whether they are connected with
l the particular cause Or not. list az them il