The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-16
FIVE PRISONERS LYNCHED.
mon OF INDIANA FARMERS TAKE
RETENGE FOR ROBBERIES.

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The Men were Held in Versailles for Robbery
Tho Farmers HAD been the Victims OF
Thieves for n Long Time. and when They
Had Reasonable Assurance or Guilt, AZ
sembied ut Might and Lynched Four Mem
bers OF n Gang ana Ono Outsider-Jnil Raided
EasIy-The Men 'Beaten, shot, and Hanged.
VERSAILLES, Ind, Sept. 15.-Five men were
lynched here early this morning. Thcy were con-
fined in the county Jail for robbery. The lynch.
ing was attended by brutality so shocking that
It has awakened widespread sympathy for tho
victims and their families. The affair was the
elimination of a series Of robberies that have
been going on In the country for three months or
moro, and which the authorities were unable
to prevent. Farmers wero robbed almost
nightly, stores were broken open, and women
were confronted by armed and masked men In
the farmhouses and robbed in daylight. There
has been much excitement over the robbories,
but such a elimination rs that which occurred
early this morning was not dreamed OF till the
deed was done and the perpetrators had COM
plcted their work.
About ten days ago Sheriff Bushing was in
formed by ono Of the men under suspicion for
the robberies that a store at Correct, in this
county. was to be robbed on Saturday night, and
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