LYNCH LAW.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 725, 24 March 1881, Page 2

LYNCH LAW.

A special despatch to the New York Tribune, from Topelo, a station on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, gives tlio following account of a horrible crime committed in the northern part of Monroe County;— _ Mr Brown Riding, whose family consifted of a wife'and a daughrer two years old, permitted two men, giving the name of Miller, to stay at his house. They occupied a bed in the same room with the family, it being the only one in which there was a fireplace, About eleven o'elook flames from the cottage attracted the'atlention of the neighbors, who found the" house so wrapped in flames that it could not be saved." It was thought the family had been absent for the night, but the charred remains of three persons were fount! in the ruius # next : morning, An investigation' developed the facta, and search was made for the two men, One had gone tgwarda Aberdeen, arid

the other had Started in the direction °f Topelo. - The posse that went to" Aberdeen found a man hidden in a hold six miles from that town. He taken back to the scene of the fire; whe he told -' the followingWo wanted money. We were Permitted to remain over night,, and jay mke until the heavybreathing of.theW satisfied us that;they; were asleep, jnen we: arose, adminißtered chloroform to them,: attdv rifled "the house ot wtat valuables we could ( find-a watch, a suit ,of clothes, a"pair.of boots, _and-27 dels., in money.■. Then wi> .scattered.cotton, , saturated withlcoal; . C and on the bed, set fire to- it and ran away."■' The crowd , twenty-five resolute men, who-determinea that the villain should be punished as ne ; . deserved. They pinioned' •hw - RrmS' - arranged pine splintars around mm,-ana., sit him on fire. - , v