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and those who do not pay. j.-uOFFENDERS WARNEDJudi:Osgood Citizens Give Notice to Band of Evil-Doers.OSuOOL). Ind.. Jan. —Following a series of lights and petty thefts a mysterious warning has been posted in this city. Speedy justice is promised, the law having been found too weak or not sufficient to reach these cases. The notices posted in live places in the business section read Di follows:1.:thbavuofANeoinB.BiThe citizens of Osgood and vicinity j*J€• f thave found in their midst personsijc who have become a menace to thejoi community by openly and wilifuliv j h violating t he law. to-wit: P3'1. By becoming drunk and using j vulgar and profane language on the|''i street and in public places. j gr■J. Becoming vagrants ly having !«•'; no visible means of support. i md. Committing petty thefts and =t evading the law through lack of evidence.cc4 Deserting their families nnu } bespending their time and money inuisaloons. 1ieccdiatthatncri:Pte'■3reSaid citizen?- having found the lawsto weak or not sufficient to reachthese cases, bv lack of evidence, do i 1 ihereby us«p their means to give friend-1ly warning, and suggesting, as thisthe first of tlie year, immediate re-♦form, which if not heeded these persons shall be dealt with speedily aud in a manner which the guilty parties shall not soon forget. Committee.By some the notices are regarded as a joke, but a feeling prevails that the “committee intends to back up its statements. It i feared that the wholesale lynching-* of September,IS!4, will be repeated-Among other otTenses which have stirred the people of this vicinity were the attempts to injure Prosecutor Davis of North Verno.i by shooting at him and throwing stones at him as he passed the home of Maud Goss, a notorious woman, who is now in prison.Sunday morning a general fight, in which several men were injured, occured on the main street of the town. In November Marshall Brown was beaten to insensibility by thugs.—Indianapolis Star.erncdicctlesottiintiing
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Batesville Tribune
Batesville, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 30, 1908
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