The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-16
RoBBERIEs WE'RE INCREASING.

RoBBERIES WE'RE INCREASING.
During the past week robberfes had in
creased salarningly- Last Saturday word
WIS Fccelved by tue sheriff Jha0i the store
OF Wooiey Bros, at Correct, Ind, ten
miles from here, WAS to be entered. The
information was given by one of the
gangs eonfedeTates who had been under
suspicion. Sheriff Henry BuShing ar
ranged that his informant should accom-
pany them and, securing five deputies.
they went to the pace Sheriff BuShing
concealed himself in the cellar while his
deputies were stationed at convenient
distance outside. Shortly after midnight
lie gang reached Wooley Bros store
Clifford Gordon and the sheriff s inform
aGT were designated to break into the
building. Gor1on himself effected an en-
trance and just as ne stepped inside. the
sheriff grabbed him. Both pulled pistols
at the same time and began firing. Bert
AndSOue was with the robbers, and ne
too, began fus-llade, While tne deputies
Some 20 shots were fired.
IKE SHERIFF Is SHOT.
-rhe sheriff was shot through the hand
ana G0rG9n was shOt several times.
Three pistol balls entered his body ana
he was als0 sRot in Cne leg. Gordon and
An1soma succeeded in eSea ping and came
10 OSgood where they were arrested The
robbers had driven on 10 tle pace ~ a
buggy beiongsng 10 Lyle Levi and from
information subsequently gathered. II
J planned al the home Of William Jenkins.
!'he Two iaIuer were arrested as access
Sar.eg- an were taken 10 the jail ct
Versailles. Henry SCHUYLER, d years, was
put u me jan Tor r9bblng the barber
( shop at CsSood last week. Levi was 81
! years Of age. Gordon 81 Ands3me 80, Jen-
k.ns. 80
Wia:.e the citizens have not been able
! 10 INK Jhe various rohberies mon these
4 mer,, they were thought 10 be part of q
1 gang that has committed a host of them.
/ " ALL u became known that they we're in
( tai, u was quietly suggested by the
1 farmers taat Justice be summary dealt
/ 10 the prison erS. 1t was l o clock this
/ morning when the mob seemed to come
from al quarters. and dismounted on a
I side hill near Versailles Very 1.-THE
/ tine was tosr as details mad been pre-
! arranged About 100 men marched into
the town.
BROKE INTO THE JAIL.
/ The jail was in charge of William
/ benan, Saerin Busting brother-ln-i3w,
4 ne former being at home on account of
! his injury In front OF ile jail proper
! IS the residence and in thar were Acting
! Jailer Kenan and Robert Barrett, William
/ Block and lSensett, deputies. Shortly be
{ fore o clock there was a knock at the
I door and when kenan and the others
/ opened the door they were presented with
J pistols by three masked men and asked
/ 10 turn over the Keys. This they did
Then the mob filed into the jail. Three
of the prisoners (LeVi, Jenkins and
Shulte-) were on the lower floor while
4 Gordon and Andsome were in the upper
! Ser. Levi. Jenkins and Shutter show ed
/ 6--ht. Levi was shot through the breast
( wn3e the skulls of the Swo latter were
! crushed with a stool Ropes were in
! readiness A moose was adjusted around
! the neck of each man. their feet and
hands were pinioned and then the march
began.
AT THE END oE ROPES.
They were not carried, but with several
rHen a the end of each rope the five
| prisoners were dragged q distance of 200
! feet to an elm tree where their bodies
/ were suspended. 1t is said Levi Jenk: ms
and Shutter were dead sefore they
I reached the place. Death resulted from
hanging in the cases of G[don and And
some Justice of the Pc e Charles Los
I we'll held an inquest OIL the FIVE bodies
( this morning. None of the citizens seem
{ 10 de2io@e the action of the mob. but on
! the contrary the hanging of three or four
more members of the gang is being talked
J Of No troops have been asked for The
! citizens say that they are not wanted,
/ Lyle Levi was an old soldier and bore on
I his face wounds received 6s.ring the civil
1 war while fighting for the Union. None
Of the iynchers are known. They all came
| from a distance