Woodruff County news., 1908-10-29
SWIFT JUSTICE IS ANTICIPATED Ten Thousand People Expected At Union City Monday to Attend
 Night Riders Hearing.

Camp Memo, Reelfoot Lake, Tenn. Sensations came thick and fast Sat urday when soldiers, sheriffs' posses and private citizens, who have mo- bilized here for the purpose of hunt ing the murderers of Capt. Quentin Rankin, rounded up more than 50 pris- oners, all charged with being members of the secret clan of night riders in the Reelfoot section where one prom inent Tennesseean lost his life and where another escaped after the night riders emptied their rifles at him.
 The arrests are responsible for the statement, that all but five of the masked mob who took Capt. Rankin and Col. Taylor from the hotel at Walnut Log are now guarded by sol diers or are securely locked in jails in five counties bordering the seat of trouble.
 The most surprising event was the detention of J. F. Carpenter, promi- nent attorney of Union City, who was imprisoned in the guardhouse, charged NlIu llcl lllS5 UCSll III COlIopll oNJ WILL night riders, who decoyed Capt. Ran kin and Col. Taylor to the hotel at Walnut Log under pretense of meet ing purchaser for some of the land which had been in dispute and which was claimed by the squatters.
 Carpenter, by agreement, it is charged, had preceded Col. Taylor and Capt. Rankin to Reelfoot lake the day before the night of the tragedy, but remained at home of relatives in the neighborhood. He was to have met the attorneys the day afterward, but the outrage had been committed which ended in the finding of Rankin's corpse in the woods.
 Col. Tatum, in command of the mili- tia, says that sufficient evidence is at hand to show that Carpenter knew of the night rider actions.
 Intense excitement prevailed in the entire neighborhood, and it is antici- pated that probably 10000 visitors will be in Union City Monday to lis ten to the first court proceedings to- ward the indictment of the guilty.
 Swift justice is surely to be meted out. Governor Patterson, who reached the scene of the tragedy just a week ago, not more than IS hours after the outrage was committed, and whose call for state troops resulted in the community being honeycombed with soldiers and sheriffs deputies 24 hours later, is known to have already con- ferred with Special Judge Wiggert, who will hold court, and the plan is to dispose of the cases as quickly as possible for fear of mob violence from the enraged citizens of entire north west Tennessee.
 The hangman's knot is believed to await more than a score of night rid CTS.
 Governor Patterson spent Sunday in Nashville. He has abandoned all idea of resuming his campaign in the gubernational race for a second term with possible exception of a final speech the night before the Novem- Der election. This however depends on the progress made in the trials of the night riders.
 Governor Patterson is expected in Union City Monday morning to resume active command of the situation. His wife and members of her family re- mained at the residence of Mayor Gardner, her father, Sunday.
 No further threats were reported and in face of the wholesale arrests Sunday it is not believed that further efforts will be made by the night riders to intimidate Mrs Patterson or others in the family.
 Precuation, however, has been taken to have a special guard in the neigh borhood of the Gardner household. Governor Patterson was also accom- panied to Nashville by trusted friends and others who remain with him at all times
 More soldiers will be stationed in Union City Monday In addition, or ganized band of determined men from counties of Lake, Gibson and Obion will be on hand.
 Hillsman Taylor, son of Col. z. R. Taylor, and son-in-law of United States Senator Taylor, is at the head of a half a hundred personal friends, called together from ranks of his college mates with when he played football.
 Three brothers of Captain Rankin, the only victim of the night riders, are also on the ground.