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the case. At 9 o’clock Sunday morning the body was taken charge of by Coroner Gardner. A jury was summoned who returned the verdict “that said James Reynolds came to his death bv hanging by a ropo by the neck, done by persons to the jury unknown, and that said hanging was felonious.The particulars of the crime leadiug up to this lynching are about as follows: On the 28th day of July a brutal assault was made upon a most estimable young lady, the wife of J. W. Noble, who residesabout five miles southwest of Leon. Mr.Noble was helping one of his neighbors at threshing, leaving Mrs. Noble alone in the house. As she was lighting the lamp in the evening she was horified to sec a brute, who was entirely nude, approach the screen door. The fiend burst the door and strangled her. The news was soon brought to Leon and the sheriff started out immediately. He was successful in finding the brute laying among a lot of railroad tics. He arrested him and lodged him in the jail. The prisoner gave his name as James Reynolds, and said he was a native of Canada, about fifty-one years of age. but he refused to give much account of himself. He was seen by several persons and identified by Mrs. ‘Noble herself. The excitement was intense, and on the Monday night following nearly two hundred people from the country came to town. They were provided with a rope, but the sheriff heard or their approach, and in disguise took his prisoner to a safe place. The crotM dispersed and it was thought that better council would prevail. The prisoner waived examination, was bound over, his bond being fixed nt $5,000. Everybody was expecting that the brute would get hismerited punishment by the regular process of the law; but on'the 8th of August about 9 o clock m the morning, another horrible outrage was committed, the victim being a very fine young lady, the daughter of a respected citizen, Jordan Kooger, by another brute. She was picking some yegetabJcs in the garden when the fiend approached her nn/1of moni lcgislali Pacific! regard which t that he propour asked a manifes and hojpersona rather tlarge, o:ford the to the ci substam never c any mlt; member cial, iioi so.”San : was coi Justice man ant trict coi the UniagainstDistrictcongres:for the doings, the sai: St an fori the corn dered 11: parties • briefs. Railway Presidei ploy coi in the ci to examSlicriinDenvifrnm tVu
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Laurens Sun
Laurens, Iowa, US
Thu, Aug 25, 1887
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