The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-16
DEATH TO ROBBERS
FIVE MEN LYNOHED BY INFURI.
ATED INDIANANS.

ATED INDIANANS.
jail at Versailles and Drag Out Ouin
tette of Suspects, of Whom They Max
Short Vork-Men Accused of Not Onl'
Robbing But Torturing Their Victims
Governor Mount Orders Proceeding,
Against the Lynchers to BE Begun a
Once-Other Crime News.
Versailles, Ind, Sept. ia mob o.
400 Infatuated men last night lyncneC
Lyle Levi, Bert Anlrews, Clifford Cor
They were taken from the authorities
The men had been arrested for burglary
Frequent robberies had enraged the
citizens Of the county and the mob was
man an dOther towns.
The mob, on horseback, entered the
town an hour after midnight and CALI
ed out Jailer KEENAN,, who, upon refus-
ing TO give up the keys was overpowered.
The mob soon pushed their way into the
cell rooms and in their impotence first
fired on the five prisoners and then drag
ged them 10 a tree a square from the jail
door AMI hung them UP.
Andrews and Gordon had already been
wounded, having been shot several times
while attempting TO rob a store at Cor
rect last Saturday night.
Shuler was in Jail for attempted burg
larry and Levi and Jenkins had just been
indicted by the grand jury for ROBBERY.
They had failed 10 give bond and were
put in Jail last evening.
1t is thought that Levi and Shuler
were both dead from the shots fired by
the mob wilsn taken out Of the Jail.
The bandages that We're on the wound
ed men were found later his morning
along the street, where they had been
torn off as the men were dragged along.
Lyle Levi was an old soldier and bore
on mis- face wounds received during the
civil war while fighting for the Union.
None Of the lynchers are known. They
all came from a distance, presumably
from the neighborhood Of Correct, where
the two men were arrested Saturday
night.
THE STORY MORE FULLY.
I Louisville, KY, Sept. ia special to
the Evening Post from Osgood, Ind.
says:
Incensed by numerous depredations,
repeated burglaries and daylight rob-
berries, the people Of Ripley county, In
diana, have taken the law into their own
hands and mated out TO the perpetrators
a punishment greater than provided by
the law. Five men, who have long been
a terror ID ths citizens Of this county
met their death at the hands Of an en-
ragged populace and when the citizens OF
Versailles, the county seat, arose this
morning, il was to find the bodies of
, five men dangling from as many limbs
! of an elm tree in the center Of the pub
! lie square. Stout ropes not over six feet
in lenght had served 10 send each to his
eternity, and their feet were but a few
inches from the ground, while their
hands and feet had been securely pinned
with strong ropes.
Versailles is a town of some 500 peo-
pie. II is one Of the Oldest in the state,
and although it is five miles from a rail-
road station and has no telegraph com
munication with the outside world, as
nave more pretentious towns of the
county, it is still the county seat.
-Four or five years, and even longer,
the farmers Of the county have been the
victims Of a lawless gang, who, 3ppar-
emily lacking in fear, have Piled their
vocation 10 the terror of the people, for
they seemingly have had no visible
means Of earning a living. Farmers
would come into town with a bunch Of
cattle or load of farm products and the
next morning they would be found
along the roadside suffering from
wound and minus the proceeds of their
sale. Old German farmers have been
Visited and both men and women have
been subjected to all the fortunes that
hardened mind could apply Aged
German women have been forced to
stand upon a redhot stove in an effort to
compel them TO disclose the hiding place
Of some treasure in the house. These
depredatiOns have continued unceasing-
y. Arrests have been made but the
guilty parties had covered up their law
iessness and it was seldom that convic-
ton followed.
During the past week robberies had in
creased alarmingly. On last Saturday
word was received by the Sheriff that
the store of Wooley Bros, at Correct,
Ind, ten miles from here. was 70 be en-
tered. The information was given by
one the gangs confederates who had
been under suspicion. Sheriff Henry
Bushing arranged that his informant
should accompany them and. securing
@is~A
Sheriff Bushing concealed himself in the
cellar while his deputies were stationed
a. a convenient distance outside. Short