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;lp tombstone. However, Gregory is only aans comiltion oi McGregory. The story told me then, only twenty-two years after the hanging, was that McDougal went to the home of a very aged and h«mble couple, who were suppoged to have a considerable sum of money secreted about their premises, and to compel them to reveal its hiding, rlt; McDougal exposed their bare feet and burnt and tortured them in coals of 3, fire in an old fashioned fireplace, until lifelong injuries resulted. Still the old or- man and his wife refused, asserting re- without a break that they did not have the supposed money. The indignities D. and cruelties of this deed so aroused ty, the people that McDougal paid the pen-nlt;j alty with his life. Still, as there is no eir reference to this in the report of the committee that was given, and that had bis to lt;3° directly with his trial and execu-tion, it may well be doubted, as also e(j several other flying reports that lack ig confirmation. But this report passed he current among the better classes of peo-^ pie. One of the sturdiest and most respected farmers, living about three miles north of east of Northport, whose - name I forbear giving, had a wayward * son. One morning a valuable horse was ' I and it was only too plain thatefi I it had gone the way of all horses of I unkn9wn whereabouts. The regulators sa I were summoned. The farmer was a I member of the vigilant band. Prepar-o- J mg to set out in search of the horse he in, I remarked that he was in favor of hang-j ing him to the first tree they might pe I come to on the apprehension of the il- I thief. They were so annoyed by depra-Ic j dations that they were incensed beyond t- I all degree of patience and were resolved e, | °n heroic remedies. But when the thief I was captured he turned out to be this r8 r farmer's son and the ifatherly instinct r. [in the good man’s nature quickly chided jf This irate disposition, and his son did not I hang for the crime, though he stillcon-• Jtimied'to be a useless burden to his | friends and the community.: In 1878, having driven ipto the little® Itown of Ontario, Lagrange county, one* | Sunday evening, for services, as I; enter* ?]ed the church, I was informed that/ a ' * * couple was in waiting close by to be wcmarried afid that it would not be con- Sh venienfc for then? to wait until the serv- foi ices were concluded. So I excused my- wc aelf to the audience, already gathered, mi and walked hurriedly over to: the house en where the parties were in waitings? 11 thlt; ^^r seen either candidate tlt;5 re|athm but as I SteppedXe' i •i-i-iTv
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Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Wed, Dec 04, 1912
Page 12
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