The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-26

meeting was held between four or five men
| in the office of county official. where it
was decided to send to Osgood to induce two
of Lewis friends who had agreed to sign
| his bond not to do so; that they were sue
cessfuI and that when they informed Stein
metz they had spiked that gum on their
return from Osgood, at o'clock p. M, he
at once lodged his prisoners in Jail. Four
\ hours later they and the other trio were
| dangling at the end of a limb. Every man
who was supposed to have had a hand in
getting Levi and Jenkins in Jail has been
| examined, but not an admission has been
| made.
Il TO BRIGHTEN THE JUSTICE.
The justice of the peace who is trying the
case allows much latitude and is much
| criticised as a result. He has been re-
| preached by several of the influential men
| of the community and shows every minute
| of the day that he understands fully the
| feeling against him, and that he would
much rather be in any other place in the
| world than the little square schoolhouse
| where the trial is being held. An effort TO
overawe him by force of numbers will be
made after the argument is finished, when
| the moment for him to decide the case will
have arrived. On an average 80 men have
| been in the schoolhouse during the day,
while. as many more have been here in the
| town. No witnesses are allowed to remain
| in the room after testifying. These three
| hundred men and perhaps as many again
! Will gather in the room when it comes time
| for the decision of the justice. While this
! plan has been discovered there does not
seem to be any way to head it off.
| There is no moderation in the talk of the
! hearing, and nearly every one is willing to
wager Squire Craig will rot send Hughes
TO the grand jury.
IF he does,' said one man, "he might as
we'll move out of the county at once"
| IF he finds Hughes guilty" said one of
the attorneys, he will be socially ostra-
| cized
| 1t would be rather remarkable if such
| feeling did not have much influence on a
man who has lived in the community ever
since he returned from the war. Still, JUS
| tice Craig declares he will do his duty fear
lessly.
| People are wondering how much the
| state is paying the assistant prosecutor
| Hugh ID. McMullen, of Aurora. The attor-
neys on the other side mention several
members of the bar of Ripley county who
were offered fee of $1,000 to engage in the
prosecution.
why did not one of them accept it?'' was
asked
"Oh, because they expect to continue
practicing law in Ripley county If they
had taken hand in the prosecution they
would never again win jury case. The
| first time Judge McMullen tries a damage
case the jury will give good big judgment
| against his railroad
| 1t does not seem from this sort of talk
| that there was any basis for reports that
the lawyers of Versailles were angry he
| cause one of their own number was not an
| pointed to assist in the prosecution of the
! MOP. what they are really angry about is
that the State officers have not been willing
| TO let the question of melting out Justice 60
| by default.
LYNCHERS HAD SPIES
me legal representativ of the men who
have found it advisable to retain ATTORNEYS
Notwithstanding they did not take part in
tie lynching, and have no knowledge of if.
pretend to have known weeks ago what
course was to be pursued.
| Il have friend at Indianapolis - said
ore lawyer who has been on the inside
ana gave tips. We are knights &c
Pythias. knew before the first detective
came when 10 expect him and was aho,,+
me Hrst man he talked to when he arrived
n nmo weeks ago | knew the cases would
e IN W before a justice of the peace"
u, mat man must be mind reader said
ine attorney general, because no one hn,t
l N Mrew w H, was to be done
secret is no secret when more than one
I InaH KNOWS 1t; 1t was of the most vital i'm
1p t'ic r 70 lne success of the undertaking
lndt strlct secrecy be kept.
lilS place Is eighteen miles from, tba
nearest telegraph station, Osgood which is
ieacneu by q road hub deep in mud that
leduS over wild NIL cOuntrv throt,ob ~.
sdllles: Some days the roads have been al
h hnoSt impassable. and it took four hours
nenihu e palr OF good horses to make the
| trip. The only way newspaper men
nave of getting off their accounts of the
nearing IS by courier to Osgood, who makes
| TRIPS morning and evening for IS a dav A
newspaper man who was the first on the
| scene found that his courier was being held
| up at versailles, where the self-constItuted
| censors read his dispatches before permit
ing them to be taken to the Osgood teIe-
graph Office. So far as he knows the dis
patches We're not mutilated, and he hopes
mat 1t was mere curiosity that prompted
the outrage.
News spreads like wildfire. 1t was not
until E:io O'Clock yesterday that the testi-
| mony of Charles Kelly was finished
newspaper man would have found it al
most impossible to get message to Os-
s ,,p9.. peIore 2:5O o'clock, and yet the paper
puohshed there that goes to press at
O'Clock had a short special saying that the
state had rested its case after Kelly testi-
| he'd that Schueter, Levi and Jenkins had
been killed by Hughes, jim Mccoy and
| Harry Andrews. Kelly did not mention
Andrews,s name at all and the state did
not rest its case" While the news was
inaccurate the fact any part of it Travelled
| 50 swiftly goes to show there NAV be some
thing in stories Of the occult transference
OF Ideas in India after ALL The man who
wrote that dispatch might be suspected of
growing who killed Levi, Jenkins and
Schueter lie seemed to know more than
Kelly, and Kelly was in the jail
Charles Kelly was brought here from
6aWrenceburg and taken back at noon via
Dillsboro, as 1t was not considered safe to
bring him through Osgood and Versailles
Here again the means the mob has of get
ing ing Information appears. It is claimed
the boys got a message "off the wires
| wednesday that was sent from Lawrence
burg to the. attorney general informing him
Kelly was in Lawrenceburg. Had the boy
been kept here over night he might have
Jared badly. Some of the boys asked
the defendants attorneys to delay the
cross examination so as to keep Kelly in
this neck of the woods over night The
attorneys say that they don't want this case
preJudiced by any overt act and refused to
comply.
His StenOgrapher There, Too.