Show HY NINNIES terrible vengeance wreaked upon two tennessee attorneys by murderous mob trouble of long stand ng over fish ermen s R gats term nates in prominent men be ng taken from the r hotel and brutally murdered k union city tenn colonel R Z 1 aylor aged 60 years and captain quintin rankin prominent attorneys of trenton tenn were taken from wards ward a hotel at walnut log tenn fifteen miles from here at midnight wednesday night by masked night riders and murdered captain rankins ranking body was found the next morning riddled with bul lets and hanging from a tree one mile from tha the hotel efforts to locate the body of colonel taylor have been fu u tile thus far but it is believed that he lit was also killed mr ward the manager ot of the lard ard hotel at walnut log tele phoned details of the tragedy he ile said that twenty file flie masked night riders came to his hotel at tat midnight hey lined up outside the hotel pull cd od out their revolve revolves s and called to colonel taylor and calta n rankin the two men did not suspect trouble and nd came down immediately As the attorneys passed into the front yard the riders covered them with their re and before rankin and tay lor had an opportunity to retire they were surrounded and seized they were nvere put on horses behind night rid ars and carefully guarded the nightriders then quietly took up their march from the hotel turning clown down the road toward reel foot lake guests at the hotel in a few minutes lost the sound of hoof beats ind nothing more was heard of the fate of the two men until the next Li orning 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 organized the west tennessee land company they bought reel foot like lake from nonresident non resident owners and dimmed abely made regulations of the r own concerning fishing leges the lake separates obion and lake counties in the extreme north vest corner of tennessee great numbers of the residents in that neighborhood have made their living tor for some time by fishing in the lake cind and became indignant when what hat they da cia med as their rights were disturbed they made demands ct cf the land company and followed these with letters threatening taylor ind rankin colonel taylor desired protection in some form of the state ind and he secured the passage in the leg ib lature of an act regulating fishing in reel foot lake this act made it a misdemeanor to fish in the lake paying a heavy fee |