The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-12-13

Ninth street to Main and after CT
ing the roll by numbers. hastily ]
town.
The fire department quickly
to work and STOPPED the progress
the flames at the depot. VIII
threatened a general conflagrati
Mayor Meacham's newspaper OH
the Hopkinsville Kentuckian,
visited and the plate glass winds
demolished by the down town SOU
AS a climax to the deviltry
the night the mob went to The he
of Lindsay Mitchell, buyer for
Imperial company, and ordered
to come out. ne
When Mr.. Mitchell refused he
mob threatened to shoot intlb,l-
house and kill his wife an
dren. and
Mr.. Mitchell then came % him
the mob bound him, and the
to a tree, whipped him allowed
blood flowed. He was
to return home. a about
The mayors residep 49,, -.
half mile out Main eachinp no.
had a strenuous tint b,s house
lice headquarters. HI about Q
as soon as arous bunch of
o'clock, but ran from bia house
riders a few squea,p street inst
They turned inbm Fourteenth
ahead Oh lowed them down
street. ana NE joined by two or
the street, bn inst IN tmie 70
three youh9uads unite at Maine
see the twsts, call the roll and
and Ninth The mayor proceeded
leave towolice headquarters to
at once ted. the men being out
ma IL day men who were not
raiiylndty. This was about 2:3o
on Md in thirty minutes a
ocioeh Deputy Sheriff l.. C. Cra-
possn eomand, was organized,
verd and started in pursuit.
mEMAN MORTALITY WOUNDED
the meantime a smaller squad
entered an L. and n. freight
Il north Of the depot. the brake
| in charge, J. C. Felps, jump
down to flag the engine, when
of the night riders shot him
he back with a load of buck
!, mortally wounding him. He
taken to Nashville this morning
o'clock, barely alive.
BATTLE WITH THE RIDERS.
lortly after o'clock the sheriff's
'e overlook the night riders, two
5 from town and kept up a run
, fire on them for twelve miles.
} or three of the horsemen over
a buggy with two men in it
ordered them to surrender. One !
hem dismuunted and jumped in
the moving buggy, but was
ed out, and his companions re-
ned from shooting until he was
ntangled from the hand-to-hand |
lict. being afraid of killing their
men. When the deputy jumped
or was showed from the buggy
vas mistaken in the darkness for
light rider and quickly thrown
n and held
soon as possible this fatal
der was corrected and the
d opened fire on the buggy,
n disappeared at breakneck
d. A little further in pursuit
found a bloody handkerchief and
Il, but the buggy in the darkness
ed out of the way and could not
Ound again.
lie pursuit was kept up to a point
e miles west of Gracy, on the old
IN road, where the last shots were
at a small remnant of the riders.
posse returned this morning at Z
'ck.
THE LOSSES.
lie factory of Tandy & Fairleigh
al isolated wooden structure,
ed by W. T. Tandy, a brother of
Z. Tandy, the head of the firm
vas worth probably $4,000, but
, tobacco had been received.
Latham building was worth about
100. NJ. H. Tandy & Co.. were OPP
ing it as a loose sales warehouse.
4. Tandy is a brother of the other
named. Adjoining this was the
ney factory, used as an associa-
pricing house by L. B. Cornett.
went with the independent house
he Planters Bank and Trust COM
:. the Commercial and Savings