The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-01-10
NIGHT RIDERS TO HANG
Death Sentences for Six-Two More
Get Twenty Years.
] UuIo It uIN
c. c. Jones,
Supt.

Union City, Tenn, Jan. ii. Without
a tremor. six men of Reelfoot Lake
heard judgment passed condemning
them to pay with their lives the penal
ty for the part they were convicted
OF having had in putting to death
Captain Quentin Ranken at walnut
Log. the deed of band OF so-called
night riders, of which the six men
were declared to have been the lead
ers. Whatever may have been their
emotion they faced the court to re
ceiye sentence with the same stole
| expression as has been their marked
characteristic during the sensational
trial of which Saturday was the CHI
max.
When court convened shortly after
noon the room was crowded with PEG
Die from the lake. With small cere-
mony. as anticipated, the motion OF
the defense asking a new trial, was
oyerruled by Judge Jones. Then amid
a death-like quiet, the six men, Garret
johnson. Sam Applewhite, It'd Burton,
Row Ransom, Arthur Cloar and Fred
Pinion. convicted of murder in the
first degree. each in his turn faced
Judge Jones to hear the mandate oil
, the court, and Friday. February 10, set
= as the day of their execution AS
, | they turned to return to their places
: in the prisoners dock, faint hali
, hearted smile played on the races o.
= Pinion and Johnson but beyond TINS
they could not have shown less emo
ton were they men OF stone. The pre-
cesdings ended the court room wa
quickly emptied and through tn
n crowds of their kinsmen and friend
= the men were led back to Jail to avail
: the carrying out of the courts deere
? should, in the meantime, highe
court not intervene.
r An appeal has been taken to tn
supreme court where the legal strli
T. will be Just as vigorous as during tn
A. trial lust ended. The others OF IN
IN men. Bud Morris and Bob Huffmal
found guilty of murder in the secon
degree. received the sentence name
by the jury, twenty years in the pei
itentiary.
pY On the part Of the auditors thei
40 was not the semblance Of an atteml
:, toward a demonstration and the squa
of soldiers stationed about the roo
mad little 10 uO. luSy hSoAN NN~ =
70 cree with the same stoicism as mar
90 ed the principals. The aged MOTH
IS. of Fred Pinion was among those
u the court room, and, notwithstandh
". a mothers emotion, which must ha
20. been hers, to all appearances s.
- might have been disinterested sp'
"a tator on a casual visit to the cou
This was but an example of others
:. the relatives of the men. AS to tho
who sided with the prosecution the
was q feeling that a grim duty n
been performed and they were as
ent as the friends and kinsmen OF
y convicted men. -
~ In passing sentence Judge JoI
~ declared that he could see no miti
N ting circumstances mentioned by
~ Jury in the return of the verdict q
kM considered that compromise to so
a members of the jury who hesltated
- mass the sentence of death. Thus
"a felt that the responsibility had p'
d placed on him, duty which he ko
~ not shirk, and to each he declared
"a sentence of the court would be I
n You hang by the neck until you
~ dead, and may God Almighty n
~ mercy on your soul"