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JUDGE LYNCH AGAIN.Indiana Is Once More DisgracedbyMobLaw.i •► • • * ■ • ^ . k k ■Marion Tyler Hang^d to a Tree»At Scottebu**4 ■ItCharged With Attempted Mnr-4der of His Wife.Mob of Armed Men Awed tbe Sheriff, Took the Prisoner from Jell and Lynch*d Him.1CIr• 4 .Scottsburg, Ind., Dec., 24.—A lynohing took place here early today and the procedure was so quiet that few of the residents knew of 1 the occurrence until this morning. lt;Marion Tyler was the victim. 3 Tyler had been in j ail for several * weeks, the result of an attempt on his part to kill his wife.Shortly after midnight the mob was formed. All were masked. They hurried to the sheriff’s resi-11 dence in the jail, called him by a name, and covering him and his t sons with guns, the leader de- u manded: *“Turn over the keys to the jail. ” J The demand was promptly re- J fused, but the mob became so ^ threatening and determined that ^ the sheriff and his family were ^ frightened into telling where the o keys could be found. tlThe mob took them, went to the e jail where they seoured the prisoner and hanged him. |On Nov. 3 last, Tyler shot and seriously wounded his wife and | jT then made an ineffectual attempt at suicide. His last tri U was to havetaken place January 13. The coroner’s inquest will cake place Monday.This is the first hanging in thehistory of Scott county, either lawful or by lynohing. Tyler’s parents, residing at McLeansboro, 111., were notified.tlBRFHHFI IS NOT ftUILTYSibaitcTDa1tihinHi
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Fort Wayne Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Sat, Dec 24, 1898
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Monroe C.
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