Show WIDOW WIDO Of lYNCHED D m MN is AWARDED nw AN INDEMNITY FROM THE SHERIFF I Chicago C i gO Dee Dec Deb 27 Mrs Lulu C Jen Jenkins Jenkins kins now of or Chicago has been award awarded ed for the lynching of her hus hun husband band ba bazi d l in Ripley county Ind md three years I Iago ago The money will aIll m be paid over by bythe bythe bythe the eight bondsmen of Former Sheriff Henry Bushing and is the result of a private settlement of the indemnity suit instituted by the widow three 11 months after the murder This puts an end to a case that has aroused at attention attention all aU over the United States William Jenkins was one of five men lynched in September 1887 for al alleged alleged complicity in the stealing of a horse from Lisle Levi an aged soldier of Osgood Ind md Levi also alco al o was a vic vie victim victim tim of the mob The men killed were Robert Andrews Heine Helne Wi Ham Jenkins Clifford Gordon a 17 boy bo and Levi There was a fight light in which shots I were fired at a n deputy sheriff Jenkins with the others was arrested and taken to jail at Versailles Ind lad Mrs Jenkins suspecting that mob violence was brewing walked from Osgood to tom m Versailles at night and paced the streets till dawn armed with a re revolver revolver revolver volver For several hours she waited under the window of her husbands cell ready to challenge any who came cameto cameto cameto to do him harm Her fears tears being finally allayed Mrs lIr Jenkins started start d home borne No sooner was she out of sight than a mob gathered Dragging out the five men the mem members members members bers of the mob killed them in succession succession sion aba by beating them over the head v with ith a musket stock Mrs Jenkins was compelled to flee to save her own life coming to Chicago Chic go Here she brought suit for dam damages damages damages ages against Bushings bonds bondsmen bondsmen bondsmen men before Judge Baker in the United States circuit court The suit dragged along for three years ears and finally the bondsmen decided to settle outside of court Mrs rs Jenkins when compelled sev several oral eral months since to go to RIpley coun county count county ty t to attend the trial of the case was protected by a body guard of govern government government government ment detectives d She will go to Ver Versailles Versailles sailles sallies next week eek to get the |