Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-09-15
In VIRTUOUS HOOSiERDOM
Five Human Beings, Accused of Bur-
glary, Lynched by An Infuriated
Mob at Versailles.
DETAILS OF TIE ATROCIOUS AFFAIR
An Event That Would Cause a Great
Scandal If 1t Happened in the Wild
and Woody West-Governor
Mount is Mad.

versailles, IND, sept. l5,-lnfuriateo
men last night lynohed Lyle Levi, Bert
Andrews, Clifford Gordon, William Jen.
kins and Hiney Shuler, arrested for burg.
larry.
Frequent robberies had enraged the
citizens of the county.
The mob was composed of citizens
from Milan, Sunman and other towns.
DETAILS OF THE AFFAIR.
Versailles, Ind, Sept. 15.-A mob on
horseback entered the town an hour after
midnight and called ont Jailer KEENAN,
who upon refusing to give up the keys,
was overpowered.
The mob pushed its way into the cell
rooms, and, in impatienoe, fred on the five
prisoners, then dragged them to a tree a
square from the Jail door and hung them
up.
Andrews and Gordon had already been
wounded, having been shot several times
while attempting to rob 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.
1t is thought Levi and Shuler were
both dead from the shots fred by the
mob when taken out of Jail.
The bandages on the wounds of the
men we're found along the street, where
they had been torn off as the men we're
dragged along.
Lyle Levi was an old soldier and bore
on his face marks of wounds received
during the civil way while fighting for
the Union.
None of the lynchers are known.
APOLOGIES RENDERED.
For four or five years the farmers of
this county have been the victims of
lawless gang. Men and women have been
subjected to all the tortures hardened
minds could suggest.
Aged German women have been forced
to stand upon red hot stoves in efforts to
compel them to Disclose the hiding place
of treasure in their houses.
Arrests have been made, but it Is sell
dom that convictions followed.
Last Saturday word was received by
the sheriff that the store of Wooley Bros,
at Correct, Ind, ten miles from here, was
to be entered. The information was
given by one of the gangs confederates.
Sheriff Henry Bushlng arranged that
his informant should accompany him and
five deputies. Sheriff Bushing concealed
himself in the cellar, while the deputies
we're stationed at convenient distance
outside.
Shortly after midnight, the gang
reached Wooley Bros store. Clifford
Gordon and the sheriff's informant were
designated to break into the building.
As Gordon stepped inside the sheriff
grabbed him. Both pulled pistols and
began firing.
Bert Andrews was with the robbers and
he too began fusilade, while the dep.
uties came to the assistance of the
sheriff.
Thirty shots were fired. The sheriff
was shot through the hand, and Gordon
was shot several times. Gordon and An
drews succeeded in escaping and came to
Osgood, where they we're arrested.
The robbers had driven out to the place
IN buggy belonging to Lyle Levi, and
from information subsequently, gathered,
it was learned that the robbery had been
planned at the home of William Jenkins.
The two latter were arrested as acces-
sories.
Henry Schuler, "a years, was put in Jail
for robbipg barbershoRe ct Osgood last
week.
Levi was 81 years of age; Gordon, %;
Andrews, 80; Jenkins, ~.
GOVERNOR MOUNT INDIGNANT.
Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 15.-Governor
Mount has sent the following message to
the sheriff of Ripley county: "Wire me
at once the particulars of the lynohing
that occurred in your county. further
direct you to proceed Immediately with
all the power You can command to bring
to Justice all the parties guilty of par.
ticipation in the murder of the five men
alleged to have been lynched. Such law
lessness is intolerable and all the power
of the state, if necessary, will be vigor-
ously employed for the arrest and punish
ment of all the parties implicated"
Four Men May Die.
Monticoke, Pa, Sept. 15.-A cage, in
which ten men we're being lowered into
the shaft of the Alden Coal com pany this
morntnU andden1v dronned to the hot-