TERRIBLE OUTRAGE IN INDIANA.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 252, 2 January 1874, Page 4

TERRIBLE OUTRAGE IN INDIANA.

* ' ; 1 C Cf V— — * < { ■» A'dfspatch; dated Louisville, Juris 29 £h'«i tVNew. York , Tunes,' says: _ bodv yofAiiTr-iwifeH'^iTien entete<i; Salem,-/ '• Ihdjaiia/sWzoiiiitJift holii.}iHji)<fuerd the. t towh:pltl.t'filtril'u, iroceeded.'to thogaol, tJI ondiidaitiindejl' the lceys of; 1 ? Deputy- / " who^sidsfi ; in'the £ ' biiUdiu'i'.ij; Thb\sheriff* 1 give 1 *hltnitft/t^prot^U wjkh /.vhjeli.the uiob' v ' /j,P r 'o||e"d^d?tb[•£> fx'o the celL * // of 'JJelds^cff^fop'/vyho''murdered f Ual r s£sad v They broke 'through tho ojjtfer, door," and then got a* " t 'tftot-staihr upper atory,, ', f ' w)ier;Heffern eh's- cell,wasvsituate'd. The;eell bad-two doors,; the first'made, > ofjwood, 4 'covered on,both sides'with heavy,ljrpn' 'plates, the/whole > being ,/J aboutnine and fastened ' 7 with''heavy irph/staples and,a padloelt. '."Thiß. ( doorJWAs .soot\Jbroken open, and' * the second , door, - >, about 'the fiist/ ' Ttiia door jivaa .made o t f arich'" solid - antlthe m*ur r ' 'tacef.to ,with"-tlie! .vigi-, ' the'progressjofttlie !mob, virhich .came thirsting .-for hia;blood, and had, prepared him- " /self, as/well',h'e could for desperate - , resistance. ,/iCtiowing" death awaited •himj^• hefclotei• miji ecl to", fight to' > thjfilas^w^bh',soW pieces*'of furniture' ofhta ,'cfllK \ ITS-stood like a tiger at t baj£ the door. ' The mob, ,/ knowing charaf6ter'.of the * !t ; certain ";/attain ptf/an/eri trance, • They, procured ,' t ' them with""' .' b Vcoal,-oiL' r - and", turpentine, and threw , " ''sorae'pf' a t^eta'i and threw jfowafd pnfJhV ends? of long 1 j , fl seV'" Having , lighted cell,' bringing the victim intb' vje'w, HStie frjcibopehed fire ( upon him/ f /Wpine twenty I 'shots were 'fired; k '' ' oub/bt/wKtch entered' hip breast, anq > a;f|stHer'lproke ; Hia . L'his incapa-" efffttfifi' using the arm which' , jbeldJiiW chair be bad se'zed to defend hintffelf'iwitb,*, A' : M6k was thrown at '* kll6cke(f r 'liiin 1 down, and. before be he wan seized, tied, and t^e t ' and out of the gwl*' \ What are you going'to do with' - was the y, /repJy; V X along with'you,' he l } unit!/ 1 Tie wan imfiif-dlately token to a <X H f rod I'rui 11'f/iji ■ brid ! ahour/ thirty ''ff" i-tlbctifc l from the c- *4pray; fllilflfllidover a 'j ' .«oon ,jirisj liw was" ' "rf'hirni'd yoal, jlliltt wn o '!it ytve a Vrruo'tu't'i'vii^identity,

reloaded V»> sheriffs and guards, aud scattered in every direction. Noue wore recognised ; and no person knows bv what road they entered or left town. The body wan hanging till four o'clock-, when it was taken down and brought home. Only the citizens living near the gaol were aware of the affair. The greatest excitement prevails in the town and vicinity."