Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-11-29
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A special from Ozark, Chriatian county
Missouri, gives tho details of the suintuple
lynehing by Bald Knobbess OF witnesses
against DAVE Walker and other leaders
Of that organization. james Wilson, =
farmer living near Chadwick ON the Ozark
range, came into Ozark after FIVE collins,
which were to be used to bury the victims
of the vengeance OF the Bald Kn0bbers.
Fer from the nearest town, in the shadow
Of the Ozark range. lived the men who
had been instrvwafial in bringing to
Justice the murderouE .ea3ers of the organ
~ization. and since the trials, which re-
suited in the apparent decentralization of the
band, these men have lived in the belid that
their Foubles were over but n sight was seen
which proved eonclusively hat the law-defy-
ing organization still existed From the
limbs OF a mighty oak tree on the banks oil a
creek, only a short distance from the place of
the Green and Eden murder, five eorpses
were swung 20 the breeze, and each one bore
the dread symbol of death at the hands of
the Bald Knobbers-a knife cut across the
brow. A farmer who was early on his way
to TOW was the first to see the terrlbleslg ht,
and he quickly summoned his neighSors, who
took down the bodies and found them to be
those OF Charles Green, james Eden, William
Elders, Jonathan Wiley aud En- met Ander-
son. All these men had sworn to
the facts of the killing OF Green
and Eden, brothers OF the first
named. and on their evidence Dave Nflkef
was sentenced to pay the extreme penalty
of the law. The bodies were placed in a
wagon and carried 10 the homes OF then finn
lilies, therethestory ofthel latest Bald Knobber
raid was heard. At the home of Green
and Eden, who occupied jointly 6 long, dou-
BILE log house, oil was terror and tilsmay. As
soon as the walls OF the bereayed women and
children could be stilled the following was
told 20 the Mortified listeners; A~trrcisely12
o'clock a knock was heard at the door, and in
response TO an inquiry the family were told
that u neighhor had n stalled wagon neat by
and requested assistance. Green and Eden
Immediately went out, and ms they passed
the gate a single pistol shot was heard
aud out of the moonlight from the
bushes rode about two hundred
Bald Knobbers, with the disguise that a year
ago was so well known n the Southwest.
They surrounded the two unfortunate men,
q short struggle followed, and then all rode
away with their victims. The terrorized
family could do nothing, and were afraid to
stir out of doors Until daylight. At the resi-
dence of Finders much the same story was
told. At Wiley's house admittancc was re-
fused and the Bald knobbers broke down the
door and dragged the man from the house.
During the melee several shots were fired at
the assailing party by members of the family,
and they are confident that one of the raiders
was wounded. Anderson was captured while
on his way home from Chadwick. The whole
country is again under a reign of terror, as
no one knows who did rhe deed. and each is
distrustful of his ~neighbor. Sheriff Williams
has gone to the scene OF the murders with u
large posse of men. The only elew is the Bald
knobber who is supposed to be wounded.