Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-07-27
Kendall, Mcmillan, Livingstone, Lewis
Binion, John Binion and John Boggs.

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Binion, John Binion and John Boggs.
Other members Of the gang received
sentences varying from five to one
hundred lashes on the bare back and
notice to quit the state. The lodge
rode into Martinsburg at midnight,
armed and disguised; they forced the
jailer to deliver up the keys Of the Jail,
and brought forth Kendall and McMil-
Ian TO suffer the extreme penalty of
lynch law. The frightened wretches
confessed everything, implicated Liv-
ingstone, the two Binions and Boggs,
and were hung up to walnut tree in
the court house yard. A proclamation
was posted in several prominent places
threatening evil doors and their friends
and sympathizers with the vengeance
of the Regulators.
After banging the two prisoners the
band quitely dispersed. The execution
created considerable excitement, but
no effort was made to bring the lynchers
to justice. The night following they
captured Louis Binion and hung him
to n ladder set up against his own
house. Others Of the gang were visited
and whipped and ordered to leave the
state. For a month the Regulators
were every night whipping and hang
ing. John Blnion took 10 the ''Drush. )"
and one night endeayored to get out of
the county. He and Boggs were to
leave together. The latter vas a hunter
and fisherman, and the place of rendez-
vious of the two prescribed men was
log cabin which Boggs sometimes
occupied on his hunting excursions.
The Regulators learned of the move
ments of the two men and sought to
check their flight. They surrounded
the cabin and demanded an uncondi-
tional surrender. Binion and Boggs
refused to give themselves up. The
Regulators fired a volley into the cabin,
broke down the door, shot Boggs dead
and wounded Binion. Binion begged
for mercy, but they laughed his prayer
to scorn. A rope was placed about his
neck, and bowling and praying he was
dragged to- the nearest tree. They
strung him up, and as he writhed under
the cruel, cheaking rope, fired volley
into the swinging body, and ended the
wretche's misery.
ever, escaped them. 1t appears that
he learned OF the hanging of the two
men in Martinsburg, and their betrayal
of him that same night, and making
hasty preparations he fled across the
Big Sandy into West Virginia. He
remained in hiding for several weeks,
wound up his business, collected to-
gether all the ready money hs could
realize and vent to Texas, in one of the
frontier towns of which state he is now
located. The rest of the gang fled the
state. A great deal of stolen property
was recovered by the detective and re-
turned to the owners. The property on
Crackers Neck" was divided up and
sold by Llvingstone's son, after which
the young man went to Texas to join
bis sire.
The new order increased its member
ship and established subordinate lodges
in other counties. 1t restored order
and made law respected. 1t drove out
the desperadoes, thieves and outlaws,
and made it possible for an honest man
to live in Elliott county. AS an evil
dence of what terror of evil-doing was
inspired by the Regulators, it is said
that man could lay down u thousand
dollars in the middle of the road any
where in the county, and leave it there
for weeks without fear of its being
picked up, because, as a mountaineer
quantity expressed it to the writer:
"Thar's no tellin', mister, how many
rifles mought be coverin' thet same
thousan' dollahs, nor how quick man
mought see kingdom KUN. Who'd be
drafted fool enuti to pick hit up?'