Show five men louisville LOpi aviLLE ky sept 15 A special to the post from ind says incensed Inc aneed by numerous depredations repeated burglaries and daylight robberies the people of ripley county ind haye taken the law inta kneir own hands and ana meted out to the per petra tora tors a Danish banishment ment greater than provided by law five men who have long been a terror to the citizens ot of this county met their death at the hands bands of on an enraged populace ce when the citizens of versailles the county seat arose this morning they found the bodies of five men dangling from as many limbs of an elm tree in the center or the public square stout ropes not over eix eis feet in length had served to send the men to their destiny their feet were but bat a few inches from the tha ground while their A hands and feet had been securely pinioned with strong ropes during the past week robberies had bad increased alarmingly last saturday word was received by the sheriff that the tha store of woolley bros at correct Gor ind ten miles from hero here was to be entered the information was given by one ol of the gangs confederates who had bad been under suspicion sheriff henry bushing bashing arranged that his big informant should accompany them and securing avo deputies they went to the place sheriff bushing concealed himself in the cellar while his deputies were stationed at a convenient place outside shortly alter after midnight the gang reach ed woolley bros store Ol clifford ifford gordon and 69 the sheriffs informant were designated to ta break into the build building inZ gordon himself effected an entrance and just as he stepped inside the tha sheriff grabbed him bath pulled pistols at the saine Bam time sime and began firing bert was with tho robbers and he too tao began a fusillade fusi lade while tho the dep deputies aties came to the assistance of the tha she sheriff rift some sam thirty shots were wera fired the sheriff was wag shot through throns sh tho the hand and go gordon godon don was shot several times three pistol P astol balls entered his body and he was also shot in the lez les gordon and randsome succeeded in escaping and cane came to osgood where they were arrested the robbers had driven out to the tha place in a buggy belon belonging ginz to lyle levi and from information subsequently gathered it was also learned that the robbery had been planned at the home of william jenkins the two latter were arrested arrest sd as accessories access aries all were taken to the jail at Var marsailles sailles henry sabelle Sa bulle 24 years was wag put in jail for robbing the barbershop barbers bop at oswood baat week levi was 57 years yeara of age gor ansome SO 30 jenkins 25 23 while the citizens have not been able to fix tle the various robberies upon these meu mau they were thought to be part of a gang committed a host of them when it became known that they were in jail it was sug gest edby bv the farmers that justice ba summarily S um marily dealt to the prisoners it was I 1 this morning when the mob seemed to come from all and dismounted on a side hill near Vei versailles sailles very little time was lost as details had been prearranged about men marched into the town shortly before 2 there here L was a knock at the door and when kenan and the others opened the door they were presented with pistols pi by three masked men and asked to turn over tho the keys this thoy they did then the mob filed into the jail three of the prisoners levi jenkins and were on the lower floors floor while gordon and randsome were wera in the upper tier levi lavi jenkins and showed fight levi was shot through the breast while the boulls of the two latter were crushed with a stool ropes were in readiness A noose was adjusted around the neck of each mang man their feet feel and hands bands were pin pinioned boned ind nd then the march began they were not but with several men at the end of each rope the five prisoners were dragged a distance af feet to an elm tree where their bodies were suspended it Is ia said lovi levi jenkins and shutler were dead before they reached the field death resulted from hanging in the cases of gordon and randsome Anda And ome some |