The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-22
Judge Orders Prisoners Hand
cuffed and Their Guard In
creased to Prevent Any Con
certed Attempt.

Union City, Dec. Blowing to
threats against Frank Fehrinner,
great precautions we're taken when
the trial was resumed. Armed guards
are watching the court room. Friends
of the night riders are believed to be
planning a jail delivery or rescue in
the court room. A reported attempt
to break Jail last night was frustrated
The Judge ordered the prisoners hand
cuffei and guards were increased to
prevent their escape. John Shaw, a
fish pedd.er. described an encounter
with night riders last December. The
gang threatened to hang him and
gave him a whipping and turned him
loose.
The state called to the stand Mrs.
Emma Thurman Johnson, one of the
two women known to have been
whipped by the band. and had her
tell her story. 1t was a dramatic
close to a day OF sensational develop
ments.
Fehringer's Statement.
Frank Feh-inger told of the killing
Of Quentin Rankin in these words:
IL remember that night very well.
On that night we all met at Long
bridge, and from there we went mp
the Hickman and Dyersburg road un-
til we got to Louis Carpenters. and
then we went under the bluff TO Ed
Powelps fence and up the road and
hitched our horses and met some 9TH
er fellows there at the corner OF the
fence where we hitched our horses.
From there we went to Ed Powell's
and got Ed Powell and took him to
Wards hotel with us for the purpose
of having him wake Mr.. Ward.
when we got TO the hotel went
behind the house and guarded around
there. close to the window, while
some OF the party went In the room.
After they got in there l went in the
room, and when I go in there Mr..
Rankin was sitting on the side of the
bed and Mr. Taylor was standing up,
arranging his clothes.
somebody told me to examine the
grip to see II they had any papers in
there. and | can't say which one Of
the grips | examined but II was sit
ting near Mr.. Rankin's bed. II had
some papers In II, letters to Mr.. Ran
kin, but / saw there were no traces
OF blueprints of land. and I put the
papers back. m
eve left there then with Mr.. Tay-
Tor and Mr.. Rankin and took them
up TO where we hitched our horses
ION the way up there We stopped
above Powell's house and Garrett
Johnson swore Ed Powell in as a
night rider. We went from that
point to where the horses were hitch
ed and stayed there an hour or more,
and | heard Garrett Johnson and
others talking to Mr.. Taylor while
we were there.
"T heard Garrett Johnson ask Mr..
Taylor why he had done like he did
when the people had hired him to
look after the case. and when he
found the lake suit pending why did
he drop the people and turn to Har-
ris and try to take the peoples lake
away from them and their homes and
everything. He said every time he
thought about it he felt Ike shooting
one of them.
81 heard Mr.. Taylor explain the
way he got the title. We stayed there
about an hour and some or them
wanted to whip them and send them
home and some of them wanted 10
hang them and some of them wanted
to shoot them, but they finally taken
and put rope around Rankin's neck
and led him down to Longs Slough
Bayou Dechein Slough. and when we