The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-09-21
OUTBREAK FEARED
The Passions of the Citizens OF Osgood
and Versailles Famed Into Furious
Flame.

The Passions of the Citizens OF oseood
and Versailles Famed Into Furious
Flame.
OseooD, Ind, Sept. 1s.--The volcano
of public excitement in this county is
on the eve of another terrible erup-
ticn. Mutterings of an impend-
ing storm are heard on every
side, and what is most horrible
in the threatening outlook is that
women are involved in the danger of
the lowering clouds of the portentous
storm, and human life may again be
submerged beneath the pillows that
are ready to break over the barriers
established by law to protect person
and property.
Early Friday morning it was appar-
ent that the mysterious horsemen and
signal rockets that famed through
the darkness of the preceding
night were pregnant with some
strange meaning. The determined eff
forts of the judge, prosecuting attor
ney and Sheriff Busching to ferret out
the actors in the lynching caused consid
cradle uneasineSS. Scores of witnesses
from every part of the county were
subp@naed before the grand jury
Mrs. Jenkins, the widow and niece
of two of the victims, appeared before
the grand jury heartbroken over her
terrible affection and bewailing in pit
eous language and sobbing voice her
double bereavement.
Warrants have been sworn ont for
the arrest of Mrs Jenkins and her
aunt, Mrs Missouri Rittenhouse.
charging them with receiving stolen
goods Friends of the women are
| forming, and swear they shall not be
arrested, and the outlook is growing
more serious.
The location of thousands of dollars
worth of secreted stolen goods has been
discovered, and the officers are prepar-
ing for an astonishing coup. Green's
burg, Shelbyville. North Vernon, Mad
ison and other towns will be called
upon to contribute their part in prov
| ing that an extensive and strong gang
of thieves had been operating in and
about all these places. Nine hundred
dollars worth of goods are known to
be Secreted in one place, and parties
have made overtures to the officers for
their surrender and the proof who
stole them, and each day the evidence
is accumlating against the guilty par
| ties.
OsGooD, Ind, Sept. 1S.-Early Friday
afternoon Sheriff Busching decided to
search the houses of Jenkins and Rit-
tenhouse for stolen chattels and a
search warrant was sworn ont and ten
deputies sworn to execute them.
At Jenkins house the only things
found here were two packages of sill
verware, which were seized. The of.
ficers then marched to the home of the
world-renowed Missouri Rittenhouse
farther up on the street and surround
ed it. Missouri was also at Versailles
along with her son Sam and door was
forced open.
The officers lost no time, but went
right to work. On every side were evi
dences of prosperity and abundance
After finding a narrow stairway be-
tween the dining and bed rooms, Officer
Wills went upstairs. The sight that
met him there caused his eyes to look
like saucers- Ranged about tina. low
ROOM which embraced all the space be
meath the rafters, were IA beds, enough
to accommodate at least 90 men, as
few of them are single beds
No evidence existed below stairs thai
at once struck the eye as suggestive o
such singular hostelry. Here it i:
believed that the clans have been gath
ering and conspiring for years. Afte
going literally all through the hous'
three rolls of new rag carpet, severa
bolts of cloth of ladies' dress goods an,
a new trunk heavy and locked, wer,
seized and taken to Versailles in Il liv
cry rig. Four new cooking stove
were also found.