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-o-Lynching has received a set back in one Indiana town, where the wife of the lynched man has secured $4,000 damages. Three years ago he was taken from the county jail and lynched at Versailles for horse stealing. The man’s wife entered a suit in the United States circuit court against the sheriff, his bondsmen, and against forty citizens of Versailles. The case was compromised, the widow receiving four thousand dollars. This brings the matter down to a question of dollars and cents. If the, sheriff and his bondsmen, if “prominent citizens” and the county itself, are to be held financially responsible for the safety of prisoners, lynchings are bound to be less.
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El Paso Daily Herald
El Paso, Texas, US
Thu, Jan 03, 1901
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