Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-09-22

repeated lurglarics and daylight rob
hNrics. the people of Ripley county.
Ind. have taken the law into their owl,
hands. and mcted out to the perpetra-
tors punishment greater than provid-
ed by the law. Five men. who have
long been a terror To the citizens OF
this county. met their death at the
hands OK an enraged populace and
when the citizens of Versailles. the
county seat arose Wednesday. il was
10 and the bodies of five men dangling
from Us many limbs of an elm tree in
the center of the public square
stout ropes. not over six feet in
length, had served To send each To his
eternity.
Versailles is q town OF some eigh;
hundred people. 1t i one of the oldest
in the state. and although it il five
miles from Il railroad station and has
mo- Geographic communication with
The outside world a. have more pre-
tentiOus towns of the county. il
ia still the. county seat For four
"r five years, and even longer the
farmers OF the county have been the
victims Of "a lawlcsS gang. who. appar-
emily lacking in fear. have piled their
vocation 90 the terror OF the people. for
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