The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-05
INDUSTRIOUS FIsNDs IN HUMAN FORM

P1underers of Dead Bodies Meet with Swift
Punishment-Some of Them Lynched.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 2.-The way of the
transgressor in the desolated valley of the Cone
maugh is nard indeed. Each hour reveals some
new and horrible story of suffering and outrage,
and every succeeding hour brings news of swift
and merited punishment melted out to the
fiends who have dared TO desecrate the stiff and
mangled corpses in the city of the dead and
torture, the already half-crazed victims of the
cruelest of modern catastrophes. As the roads
to the lands around about are opened, tales of
almost Undesirable horror come to light and
deeds of the vilest nature. perpetrated in the
darkness of the night, are learned of.
Just as the shadows began TO fall upon the
earth last evening party OF thirteen Hunga-
rians were noticed stealthily picking their way
along the banks of the COnemaugh toward
Stouts and Sang Hollow. Suspicious of their
purpose, several farmers armed themselves and
started in pursuit Soon their most horrible
fears were realized. The Hungarians were out
for plumber. Lying upon the shore they came
upon the dead and mangled body of woman,
upon whose person there were q number of
trinkets of jewelry and two diamond rings. In
their engerness to secure the plumber the Hun
garians got into a squabble. daring which one
of their number severed the finger
upon which were the rings and started
on a run with his fearful prize.
The revolving nature of the deed so wrought
upon the pursuing farmers who by this time
were close at hand, that they gave immediate
chase. Some of the HungaranS showed fight,
but being oGtnumbered were compelled to flee
for their lives. Nine of the brutes escaped, but
four were literally driven into the surging
river and to their death. The inhuman monster
whose atroeious act has been described was
fha min i4pr If fha fuvOlu auiri6ps
Another incident of even greater moment has
just been brought 10 notice. At $50 O'Clock
this morning an old railroader, who had
walked from Sang Hollow, stepped up to a
number OF men who were congregated on the
platform of the station at CurranyilIe and said !:
Gentlemen, had ! shotgun with me half an
hour ago | would now be a murderer, yet with
no fear OF ever having to suffer. Two miles be-
low here j watched three men going along the
banks stealing the Jewels from the bodies of the
dead wives aud daughters of men who have
been robbed of all they held dear on earth.''
He had no sooner finished the last sentence
than fye burly men. with looks OF terrible de-
termination written their faces, were on
their way to the scene of plumber, one with a
coil of rope over his shOulderand another with
a revolver in his hand. In twenty minutes, so
it is stated, they had overtaken two of their
victims who were then in the act of cutting
pieces from the ears, and fingers from thr
hands OF the bodies of two dead women. With
revolver leveled at the Scoundrels, the leader
of the posse shouted: Throw up your
hands or I'll blow your heads of"
With blanched faces and trembling forms they
obeyed the order and begged for mercy. They
were searched, and as their pockets were
emptied OF their CHASTITY finds, the indignation
of the crowd intensified, and when a bloody
finger of an nt'encircled with two tiny gold
rings was found among the plumber in the
leaders pocket, cry went up, Lynch them !
Lynch themw Without a moments delay
ropes were thrown around their necks and
they were dangling to the limbs OF a tree in
the branches OF which an hour before were en-.
tangled the bodies of dead father and son.
After the expiration OF half an hour the ropes
were cut and the bodies lowered and carried to
a pile of rocks in the forest the hill above.
1t is limited that an Allegheny county official
was one of the most prominent actors in this
tragedy of justihabe homicide.
A Hungarian, with two companions, were
caught to-day In Kearnsville. They had cut
the fngea off the body Of young lady for
a ring she had on it, The crowd was
mad with fury. The men were seized and
beaten and kicked. after which a rope was
procured and placed about the mans neck.
The cur begged and pleaded for mercy. His
two companions howled with fear. Tue rope
was thrown over the limb of tree aud the