The Irish standard., 1893-08-12
FIVE MEN sHoT.
Il Mob Undertakes to Lynch the
Conrad Brothers
They Fire Upon Their Assailants-Four Of
the Latter Killed and One Fatally
Wounded-The Boys Are Sus-
pected of Parrlcide.
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY,

CoRYDoN, Ind, Aug. Boone town
of terrible tragedy earl: Sunday
morning, four men being killed and one
fatally wounded. The dead are all
farmers. as follows: Edward Houston,
Isaac Howe, John Timberlake and Will
liam Wiseman. William May, also a
farmer, was fatally injured.
CAUSE OF THE BIooDsHED.
Four months ago Samuel and William
Conrad, farmers, aged ~ and 81, living
in Boone township with their mother
and sister, were suspected of killing
their father, who was found IN field
with his head crushed and bloody
club lying near by After short time
the boys were arrested and charged
with the crime, the supposition
being that they put their father out OF
the way in order to get his property,
the old man being pretty we'll OFT.
There was good deal of excitement at
the trial, the court room being crowded
at every sitting but the state could get
no proof and the prisoners were dis
charged. This angered the farmers in
the community where the Conrads lived
and it was determined to raise q body
of men and try the young fellows in
the court of Judge Lynch.
QUIETLY WAITED.
But the neighbors had misjudged the
metal of the suspected brothers, The
latter said nothing when they heard
that mob was proposed, but quietly
c1 tod
About midnight Saturday 100 men
or more assembled at small school
house not far from the home Of the
Conrads and marched to the house,
reaching there about l o'clock in the
morning. Some Of the members Of the
mob were masked and others made no
attempt at concealment.
FIRED FROM BELOW.
After the Conrads had received warn.
ing of the visit they hid themselves
under a porch on the front part of the
house. They had made several auger
holes in the flooring of the porch,
through which the muzzles of the guns
could be thrust and fired at close range
with deadly execution. When the gang
approached the house and stepped On
the porch they demanded Abundance
At that moment the Conrads fired. The
contents found lodgment in the bodies
of the mob and two men fell dead on
the porch. Two others were found sew.
eral hours later few hundred yards
from the house stone dead. 1t is also
reported that Mrs. Conrad was injured
in the fight.
THREE RIDERLEss HORSES
CoRYDoN, Ind, Aug. s. 3 a. m.-The
Iwhite caps of Boone township burned
1.-THE house of the Conrads during the
might. Monday three riderless horses
fowned by three white caps-John Ken
del, William Fish and William Hubbe]
were found. 1t is thought that
heir owners have been killed by
the Conrads, who have returned from
kentucky. They say they have three
Iluore men to kill. 1t is thought they
3are in hiding in the woods. Harrison
Icounty is excited as it never was be-
(fore. The murderers are in ambush
land every body is going armed. The
|Conrads are asking relatives to help
THEM, and bloody battle is expected
IA VIC uCAC OWCuCy ~4Oua hONA''
DEATH BLOW TO WHITE CAPS.
One thing is certain, the Conrads
have frightened the white caps of Har:
krison county, whose strength has been
heretofore in numbers, into the palsy
Good citizens are praying that the Con
RAIDS have struck the death blow to the
reign of the grim might riders 1t is
plain that the sympathy of the peo'
pie in general is with the Conrads.
The sheriff Of Harrison county, it is
thought, will make no attempt to ar
rest them, for, as one old farmer put it,
''they have done nothing but defend
themselves right smart Even men
who are known TO be themselves white
leaps dare not defend the action of the
might riders
Seeking Recruits In Canada.
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