Show terrible vengeance wreaked upon two tennessee attorneys by murderous mob trouble of long stand ng over fish ermen s R gats terminates in prominent men being taken from the r hotel and brutally murdered union city tenn colonel R Z ailor aged 60 ears and captain quintin rankin prominent attorneys of trenton tenn were taken from wards hotel at walnut log tenn etteen miles from here at midnight wednesday flight by masked night riders and murdered captain rankin s body was found the next morning riddled with bul lets and hanging from a tree one mile from the hotel efforts to locate the body of colonel taylor have been tu tile thus far but it is believed that ho was also 1 billed mr ward the manager of the vard hotel at walnut log tele phoned details of the tragedy he said that twenty five masked night ders came to his hotel at midnight hey lined up outside the hotel pul cd out their revolvers and called tc colonel taylor and captain rankin the two men did not suspect trouble ind i nd came down immediately As the attorneys passed into the front ard he riders covered them with their revolvers and before rankin and tay lor had an opportunity to retire they were surrounded and seized they were put on horses behind night rid rs and carefully guarded the nightriders then quietly took up heir march from the hotel turning lown the load toward reel foot lake guests at the hotel in a few minutes lost the sound of hoof beats and nothing more was heard of the fate of the two men until the next borning the trouble between inhabitants on the banks of the reel foot lake and colonel taylor and captain rankin originated several years ago when the two latter men incorporated and the west tennessee land company they bo ight reel foot lake from non resident owners and immediately made regulations of their own concerning fishing leges the lake separates obion and lake counties in the extreme north v nest corner of tennessee great numbers of the residents in that neighborhood have made their living for some time by fishing in the lake and became indignant what they claimed as their rights were disturbed they made demands of the land compans and followed these with letters threatening taylor and rankin colonel taylor desired protection in some form of the state ind he secured the passage in the leg ib lature ol 01 an act regulating fishing in reel foot lake this act made it a misdemeanor to fish in the lake without paying a heavy tee |