The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-02

county, and trap was laid at the same
time to arrest Andrews and Gordon in the
act, but they escaped and were arrested
the next day and placed in jail with her
husband. In pursuance of the cOnSpir-
acy, Lyle Levi was arrested, and then the
mob proceeded to carry out the remainder
of the conspiracy, which was to murder
the prisoners, together with Henry
Shutter, who had been arrested some time
previously. The breaking into the jail at
midnight, the shooting and beating of the
prisoners into insensibility, the dragging
them through the town Of Versailles with
ropes around their necks is all set out in
the complaint, and each and severally
the fifty or more defendants are charged
with the crime. In the list is the name
of Henry Busching, the sheriff, who was
absent from the jail as custodian when
the mob appeared.
Mrs. Jenkins has come into possession
of the evidence on which the suit is based
through the evidence secured by the state
and everything that the latter can give
her in aid of bringing out all the facts
will be furnished. William R. Crowford
of Chicago is Mrs. Jenkins attorney, and
ne has been In frequent consultation with
the deputy attorney general regarding
the case. No attempt is made at that
office to conceal the sympathy of the
state with Mrs. Jenkins, and her attorney
mas had ample opportunity to see the
records, which contain all the evidence
that the states detectives obtained re-
garding the lynching.
EVIDENCE SECURED.
This part of the story is highly dra-
matte. Soon after the hanging of the
five men, and after it became apparent
that the grand jury would not return any
indictments, the governor applied to the
general government for a detective of
experience. One was sent here and with
in few days he went to Osgood, a town
in Ripley county, and opened store
for the sale of farming Implements
During the summer the dealer mixed
with the farmers and others in the coun-
ty, applauded the work of the mob, and
was soon taken into the confidence of
everyone. Here and there bits of the
history of that eventful night were de-
tailed to him. and he was soon in pos
session of the name of every man in the
mob, the exact part that he played, the
events leading up to it and all that had
happened since. When the state learned
that three men out of the six who COM
posed the grand jury were in the mob
and took prominent parts there was no
longer any surprise that indictments
should not be returned
Acting upon the evidence secured by the
government detective, the attorney gen
eral had Hezekiah Hughes arrested and
the trial was held before a magistrate
whose high Christian character forbade
the idea of his being corrupted. But it
happened that the magistrate was a
member of the same church as the de-
PENDANT, and also that the pastor of the
church to which they both belonged was
present at the trial.
SPENT NIGHT IN PRAYER.
That night the pastor and the magi-
strate spent several hours in prayer, and
the next morning Hughes was declared
not guilty. When the case closed the
attorney general who had conducted the
pre- secution in person, was certain OF
conviction, but when he learned that the