Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17
An Unnatural Mother.

ST.. PAUL, June 13.-The lynching OF
young Tibbetts for the murder OF two land
Surveyors, near Perham, did not end the
criminal developments in that affair." and
brother of Washington, the murdered land
surveyor, is in Perham with detective work
ing up the case, and they have discovered
facts duplicating the whole Tibbetts family,
consisting OF a mother, with several young
cubs oil sons. The boys seem TO have been
ambitious to rival the NJ ssouri bandits, and
the mother seems to have stimulated their
bloody intentions. An interview with gen.
tleman from Perham says: "New facts in
the Perham murder case are continually
coming to light. Young Tibbetts seems to
have been fend incarnate, and urged on in
his acts of wickedness by his mother. Since
the lynching it has become known that he
and a comrade had made plan 10 wreck
Northern Pacific passenger train by placing
ties or some other obstruction on the track.
The scheme only failed from lack of sand in
Tibbett's companion. Public feeling against
the boys mother is very strong. She exhib-
tied no signs of grief when told that her son
was lynched, nor did she view the body or
seem to care TO see it. Young Tibbetts's step
father has shown greater feeling than the
boys mother, and the public generally sym
pathize with him. Public feeling is strongly
in sympathy with the lynching. The whole
neighborhood is in great excitement, and
should it be proved that the boys mother Is
really implicated in the crime, there is little
doubt she will be in great danger of the same
fate that befell her misguided son."
A correspondent of the Pioneer Iiess, who
visited the home of the Tibbetts family with
the officer sends the following: "On nearing
the house the Oldest boy, George, eighteen
years old, left the house and started for the
woods. After some conversation with the
father, who is the only one in the family for
whom there is felt any pity, the boy was
hunted up. Upon being approached he be-
gan to yell like lunatic, begging for his
mother to protect him. At this period
other, still younger, was heard to remark:
- -, they can't take mep AT this
time matters became exciting, and MIR.
Washington, brother of the murdered sur
veyor, began the examination of the boy
George. He was asked what he knew about
the murder, and was requested to tell what
time it was John said he would ill those
men if he could get chance. His reply
was: John told me on Thursday, the same
night the surveyor and his packer came to
our house. He was asked il his mother
knew of it. He said Yes He also said:
John tried to steal their revolvers on Satur-
day night, before they were killed. In all
the conversation held with the boy it was
plain he knew of the whole affair. The
mother was then called on the outside, she
said she had been sick, and that her folks
thought her crazy. Her conversation was
rather Tightly until she was given a good
scare, when she began to divulge some OF
the facts related by the boys. At this
time Reporter sitting by her
right and Mr.. Washington on her
left, each of them having small knife 10
hand, whiting. She turned upon the re-
porter and demanded the knife. Ii being
refused, she turned to Washington and asked
for his knife, which was also denied. All of
this time the woman seemed ready to do
some eyiscerating. Her eyes dilated, her
lip quivered, and she looked like tigress
thirsting for blood. She soon cooled of, and
was asked if she knew that her son was dead
She said, Yes 1t looks as though the
mother planned the whole of this terrible
deed, and the guilt upon her soul is killing
her and destroying the integrity OF her mind.
She was told OF the boy being hanged, to
which she said che was glad of it. The
daughter is a very pretty girl of fourteen
years. and seemed to feel badly but her grief
was Of short duration"
THE STORY DENIED.
CHICAGO, June ia sensational story
reached here late last ME hit 10 the effect that
Mrs. Tibbetts, of Perham, Mimi, mother of
the boy Tibbetts who was lynched for the
murder of two engineers OF the Northern
Pacific road, aided and abetted her offspring
in planning the crime, and even planned
with him and another lad TO wreck a train
for plumber, the plan failing because the
other boy backed out. 1t was added that The
feeling against the unnatural mother, who
showed no grief for the fate OF her boy, was
so great the citizens seriously threatened to
lynch her also. The story turns out on in
vestigatiou to be hoax. No such feeling
exists The woman WAS declared insane al