The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-09-23
OU1 BREAK FEARED.
The Passions of the Citizens of Osgood
and Versailles Famed Into Furious
Fla

AHe HdsslOns OF the C1tlZenS OF OBgOO0
and Versailles Famed Into Furious
Flame.
OsGooD, Ind, Sept. 1s.-The volcano
of public excitement in this county is
on the eve of another terrible erup-
tlon 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 ef-
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
subpGnaed before the grand jury
Mrs. Jenkins, the widow and niece
OF two of the victims, appeared before
the grand jury heartbroken over her
terrible atiiiction and bewailing in pit
cous language and sobbing voice her
double bereavement.
Warrants have been sworn out 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-
| tenhCuS2 for stollD 81 attelS ard a
search warrant was vorn out and ten
deputies sworn to execute tn IN.
At Jenkins house the oHly things
found here were two packages of sill
verware, which were >eized. The of
| iicers then marched t. ;he h olnc of the
world-renowed Mi Dur. Ri:t.nhouse,
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 evil
dences of prosperity and abundance
After finding 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 sau1cr5. Ranged aDJat thc low
room, which embraced all the space be-
meath the rafters, We're ii beds, enough
to accommodate at least 90 men, as a
few of them are single beds.
No evidence existed below stairs that
at once struck the eye as suggestive of
such singular hostelry. Here it is
believed that the clans have been gath
ering and conspiring for years. After
going literally all through the house
three rolls of new rag carpet, several
bolts of cloth of ladies' dress goods and
new trunk, heavy and locked, were
seized and taken to Versailles in liv-
cry rig. Four new cooking stoves
were also found.