The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-06-21

u Prince might wear without shame.
These fine clothes HuIda Lowrie and
Alice Harris. the two women at whose
lhouse the men we're arrested, took to
/ Corydon yesterday ia time for the funer-
tlai occasion.
I The Corydon correspondent sent the
following message last evening:
"CoRyDoS. IND. June l3.-It IL prob
!, able that DeavIn and Tennyson, Who
made the murderous assault upon Mr.
| lLemay last Friday night, ara members
of gang Of counterfeiters. ~ the letter.
} sfrom Tennyson, Iud 10 Sheriff Shuck
! announces The writer Of the letter says
. that the prisoners were in Tenuyson .
few weeks ago and that old man Ten
: lnyaon, Charles father, accompanied |
! them from there to Louisville. In = few
D ldays be returned to Tenuysou with al
Z number OF counterfeit go gold pieces In
slhis possession. The writer did not say
how he came in possession Of these facts
4 but stated that officers had been at work
upon the case. Old man Tennyson, who
J. has served term in the penitentiary for
D counterfeiting, came here last Tuesday
o in answer 10 = telegram from May Will
liams. notorious woman Of Louisville.
l. but his son. pretending 10 be insane,
, would not notice him. The Williams
1 woman and another Louisville prostitute
4 came down TO see the prisoners, and Dea-
a win told one Of them where be had lot
,flof money buried, and directed her to get
'eIit. The author of the letter from Ten
= lnyeon, who claims to have been At work
' upon the case himself, says that the spu-
e lrious money IL made In Louisville. Old
l. man Tennyson went from here TO Louis
willie"
n Deavin lived in dilapidated old house
n. lin the river bottoms below New Albany
10 where other bad characters now reside
iT and Il 10 said here is where the counter.
lfeiting 10 done.
,e AT last accounts old man Lemay wa
re getting better, and his niece is out Of
danger. All Is quiet At Corydon.
he A Correct Expression and Lega
ly Wish.
10 Indianapolis Sentinel.
he The lynching or the two desperadoe
ed at Corydon the other night was . Grim
TO- against the peace and dignity Of tn
state, for which the perpetrators ough
sn- Ito sufTer the extreme penalty Of the law
3D. Nothing can be said 10 palliation OF i
OIL was simply brutal. cowardly, cold
led bloodsd murder. or the gnilt Of th
Ing 1.-Two victims Of the mob's fury, ther
nd seems to be no doubt. But that was
Le- matter to he settled In the tribuua
we created by the people for that purpos
uylThese men were no greater offender
ne against the law than were the men VII
DE- strung them up. In fact. they were NJ
an lmurderers. for their victims were nc
q ~lt ~rts
the mir prospect OF recovering There w.
'nn not be dealt with by the courts accord
Hing 10 their deserts. In short. there
old nothing to be said for the murderers (
not DEAvrx and TENSYsoN that cannot !
OLD said for the average murderer. Weh0r
erelthey will be arrested, tried, convicte
orland punished, just % other murderer
en-. are.
IN People who seek to justify mob VII
ore lence say that the laws are weak aud thi
ter the courts do not properly enforce eve
ter what laws VIC have. Granted. for q
mo sake Of argument, but who makes q
.es- laws and who compose the courts
! aIWe, the people. Whose fault Is Il the
ASH that our judicial system is, BY the vc
OIL dict OF defenders Of mob violence, fai
liar Iure? II IL the fault OF the people.
pom public opinion demands more stringeI
tied lave, they will be enacted. Ii publ
nty lopinion demands the better snforceme'
lof the law tho demand will be heede
lew But this opinion muM fI0d expression
ven the press, on tho bustings, and make
tia Iself felt through the bsllot-box, and n
was Through the lawIess gatherings and brus
ME Iacts Of mobs. A. Ledger.
cara
that The hrst hanging in Harrison coun
zen. vas of two horse thieves. in 1918. Il
d slhangIne taking place on Knob Cree
uch within The present limits OF Floyd cou
I beltv. ~ Regulators. The only other han
ved. ing II that county was that Of Deav
rag and Teunysou. also by lynchers.-N
ork Ledger.